Aker clinches £16m order
STOCKTON-BASED engineering giant Aker Kvaerner is celebrating a multi-million pound contract win.
Aker Kvaerner has been awarded a £16m contract by Magnox Electric.
The project involves the design, building and installation of a plant for the retrieval and encapsulation of wet intermediate level wastes (ILW) at Hunterston A Site in West Kilbride, Scotland.
The project is part of the site’s nuclear decommissioning programme and will commence immediately.
The 38-month project will mean the plant is expected to be up and running in July 2010.
The scope of the contract includes engineering design from Aker Kvaerner’s Stockton and Warrington offices, as well as the manufacture, construction, site commissioning, and safety case work for a facility that will carry out the safe retrieval and cementatious encapsulation of the wet ILW wastes.
Dave Ley, president of Aker Kvaerner Engineering Services, said: “Aker Kvaerner has applied extensive design, engineering and practical experience in the handling of Magnox sludges and effluents, and has been able to offer a unique and robust retrieval and encapsulation solution for the Hunterston A wet wastes.”
Aker Kvaerner and joint venture partnerships have now secured more than £50m of nuclear services work since the start of the year.
This is the third multi-million pound nuclear project to be secured in the last six months.
Earlier this year British Nuclear Group awarded a £21m decommissioning project at Sellafield to the ACKtiv Nuclear Joint Venture - which includes Aker Kvaerner, Atkins and Carillion.
The initial phase of the project is scheduled to run until March 2012 and this will be followed by a period of operational support, with Aker Kvaerner receiving a 40% share of the £21m contract.
Today’s contract announcement is the latest good news for Aker Kvaerner which is set to move to new state-of-the-art premises in the new year.
The company is moving from its current home in Richardson Road to new headquarters at The Surtees Business Park on Bowesfield Lane.
