• New General Manager for Middle East appointed
London, UK (4 August 2015) - qedi, a leading completions, commissioning and technology provider, announces today that it has opened an inaugural office in Abu Dhabi and appointed Naveen Adusumilli as qedi's General Manager for the Middle East.

Based in the new qedi office, in parent company Amec Foster Wheeler's existing Abu Dhabi premises, Naveen Adusumilli's remit is to support business growth in the Middle East and to expand the company's operations throughout the region.

The new office will also bring Amec Foster Wheeler and qedi's leading North Sea hook-up and commissioning expertise to new international markets and better position qedi to support pre-commissioning work in fabrication yards in the region and in locations such as Korea, Singapore and Azerbaijan.

Barry Cann, Managing Director of qedi, said: "Demand for qedi's world leading commissioning and completions services and GoTechnology® software in the Middle East is growing. We have identified new opportunities and engaged with customers in the conventional oil & gas, petrochemical and infrastructure industry and, having already helped to build our presence in the Caspian region, I am delighted to have Naveen building up our Middle East network."

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Media contacts:
  • Jane Gospel: +44 (0)1224 291569; jane.gospel@amecfw.com
  • Achilleas Georgiou: +44 (0)207 4297511; achilleas.georgiou@amecfw.com
Notes to editors:

qedi is a leading completions, commissioning and technology provider with more than 20 years of providing technology and expertise in completions and commissioning services to the oil and gas sector.

The company's continuous improvement and investment in technology and competence has led to the development of a suite of products called GoTechnology® designed to successfully manage construction, completions, pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up and decommissioning activities in the industry.

qedi's new offices and Middle East base is:
The Sheikh Sultan Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Building
Building No. E48 - C8, 5th Floor, Office 501 - 504
Khalifa Park Area, P.O. Box 63404
Abu Dhabi, UAE

qedi is part of international engineering and project management company, Amec Foster Wheeler, following its February 2011 acquisition.

Amec Foster Wheeler (www.amecfw.com) maintains strategic and complex assets for its customers across the global energy and related sectors.

With pro-forma 2014 annualised scope revenues of £5.5 billion and over 40,000 people in more than 50 countries, the company operates across the whole of the oil and gas industry - from production through to refining, processing and distribution of derivative products - and in the mining, clean energy, power generation, pharma, environment and infrastructure markets.

Amec Foster Wheeler offers full life-cycle services to offshore and onshore oil and gas (conventional and unconventional, upstream, midstream and downstream) for greenfield, brownfield and asset support projects, plus leading refining technology.

Amec Foster Wheeler shares are publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange and its American Depositary Shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Both trade under the ticker AMFW

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