AMEC plc
1 June 2012
Transaction in Own Shares
On 21 February 2012, AMEC plc ("the Company")
announced that it intended to complete a £400 million share
buyback programme within the next twelve months.
Today the Company announces that it has purchased 335,000
of its ordinary shares of 50p each at 939.74 pence per
share through Deutsche Bank AG, all of which are to be
cancelled. This purchase equates to approximately
0.10 per cent of AMEC's current issued share capital
excluding Treasury shares prior to this purchase.
Following this change AMEC's total issued share capital
is 328,597,842 ordinary shares, of which 6,495,672 are
registered as Treasury Shares, leaving a balance of
322,102,170 shares with voting rights.
Cumulative purchases to date under the buyback programme
amount to approximately £127.24 million.
Going forward, it is the Company's intention that the
significant majority of the shares purchased under this
programme will be cancelled.
AMEC
plc
+44 (0)20 7539 5800
Sue Scholes - Director of Communications
Nicola-Jane Brooks - Head of Investor Relations
AMEC(LSE: AMEC) is a focused supplier of
consultancy, engineering and project management services to
its customers in the world's oil and gas, minerals and
metals, clean energy, environment and infrastructure
markets. With annual revenues of some £3.3 billion, AMEC
designs, delivers and maintains strategic and complex
assets and employs over 27,000 people in around 40
countries worldwide. See amec.com.
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