AMEC
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| Type | Public company |
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| Headquarters | London, England |
| Industry | Engineering / Construction |
| Revenue |  £4.186 billion GBP (2004) |
| Website | http://www.amec.com/ |
AMEC (LSE: AMEC) is a British company, headquartered in London. It carries out engineering and construction for the oil and gas, petrochemical, nuclear, pharmaceutical, defense, chemical and water industries. AMEC employs 20,000 people in over 40 countries. It has operations around the world, including North America (United States, Canada), Commonwealth of Independent States (Russia, Caspian), China, Middle East (Iraq, Kuwait), Australasia and Africa.
IN 2004 AMEC was awarded a contract to assist in the rebuilding of Iraq, as part of a joint venture with Fluor.
Speculation on the meaning of the name has lead to many questions being posed to founding management. The widely understood meaning is A Managerial & Engineering Company.
[edit] History
AMEC was formed from the 1982 amalgamation of the Fairclough Group (founded 1883) and the William Press Group (founded 1913). Since then, AMEC has acquired Matthew Hall Group (in 1988), the French company Spie Batignolles (in 2003), the Canadian engineering firm AGRA (in 2000), and the Water Resources Company Ogden.
