Amec Foster Wheeler : James Watt appointed to Carbon Capture & Storage Research Centre board

Amec Foster Wheeler (www.amecfw.com) designs, delivers and 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 55 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 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.

The UKCCSRC (www.ukccsrc,ac,uk) aims to provide a national focus point for CCS research and development in the UK. It aims to bring user and academic communities together to analyse problems and execute world-leading research. Its key priority is to help stimulate the UK economy by driving and integrated research programme focused on the contribution of CCS to a low-carbon energy system in the UK.

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