TEES Valley-based Amec engineers have been chosen to lead a second major contract in a week.

The engineering firm’s Wynyard Park office, which employs 100 people, will lead work on about 90 capital projects being carried out at BP’s British oil terminals this year.

The Northern Echo: Map showing BP's UK oil storage terminals.

It comes just a week after the same office was chosen to head a £32m contract to prepare the Teesside Gas Processing Plant (TGPP) at Seal Sands to process gas from a new North Sea field.

The engineering, procurement and construction management contract announced yesterday covers all seven of BP oil’s storage terminals in mainland Britain and Northern Ireland.

Amec has a long-standing relationship with the oil company and, in October last year, the pair entered into a global agreement for Amec to provide engineering and project management services for BP’s onshore developments around the world.

It follows a similar agreement for BP’s offshore projects, signed in June 2008.

John Pearson, managing director of Amec’s Europe and West Africa business, said: “BP is one of our key longstanding customers, so I’m delighted to see our already formidable portfolio of work for them extended by this excellent contract.

“I am also proud to see that our experience and capabilities are again helping to maintain the UK’s energy supply.”

An Amec spokesman said: “It is a significant contract and the team are very pleased.

Our good long-term relationship with BP has contributed to this award.

“It is the second award for the site in a week, which is fantastic.”

The value of yesterday’s award was not disclosed, andit has the option of two one year extensions.

It will see a 25-strong engineering team working on project management, feasibility studies, front-end engineering design and installation work on plant and equipment at the terminals in Belfast, Hamble, Hemel Hempstead, Isle of Grain, Kingsbury, Northampton and Walton-on-Thames.

Amec added that working across all the sites would ensure technical and managerial consistency.

Last week’s TGPP contract follows the announcement in September that the plant had signed a deal with German energy company RWE to process the gas from the recentlydiscovered Breagh field, 60 miles off the North-East coast.

It will see Amec modifying the existing facility as well as building an extension.

In addition to the 100 staff at Wynyard Park, Amec’s industrial headquarters in Darlington employs 400 people.