London, United Kingdom, (12 September 2014) - AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, announces today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) to co-operate across the civil nuclear sector, both in China and the UK.

The agreement will see CNNC and AMEC work together to secure global opportunities in new build, nuclear power plant operational support and lifetime extension and decommissioning and waste management.

"This is the first stage in what we hope will be a long-term relationship between British and Chinese companies in the field of nuclear energy," said Clive White, President of AMEC's Clean Energy Europe Business.

"This agreement will strengthen the co-operation between AMEC and CNNC across the nuclear sector. We will work together, for example, on new build programmes, both in the UK and internationally and also planning and strategy development for decommissioning nuclear power plants and other nuclear facilities in China under the guidance of the Chinese government."

Clive added that AMEC was pleased to be part of the UK supply chain helping to encourage important investment in the UK nuclear industry and said: "This is of course early in our relationship with CNNC but I am confident that our complementary skills and expertise will bring benefits for both parties and play a key role in the development of the nuclear industry in the UK, China and in international markets."


Media contacts:

Frank Stokes: +44 (0)1452 872121; frank.stokes@amec.com

Harold Ashurst: +44 (0)1565 684503; harold.ashurst@amec.com

Notes to editors:

AMEC (LSE: AMEC) is a focused supplier of consultancy, engineering and project management services to its customers in the world's oil and gas, mining, clean energy, environment and infrastructure markets. With annual revenues of some £4.billion, AMEC designs, delivers and maintains strategic and complex assets and employs over 27,000 people in around 40 countries worldwide. www.amec.com.

AMEC is committed to creating a sustainable long-term business in China, where the company has over 70 years experience and has executed more than a hundred projects since the early 1990s.

AMEC's first steps in China were taken in the 1930s when the company built town-gas plants (based on coal gasification) for cities including Shanghai. AMEC also provided a new facility for Shanghai Gas Co based on naphtha reforming and in the last 14 years has provided project management, engineering, procurement, construction management and asset support to over 130 projects downstream and upstream

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