Engineering consultancy firm Arcadis has agreed a £24million deal to provide framework for BP – including crisis planning for future oil spills.
The appointment comes just days before BP returns to court to argue the terms of its compensation agreement following the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
The pure-play firm, which is based in Amsterdam, said it had agreed a deal worth up to £24million over the next three years. Under the arrangement, Arcadis will provide environmental services waste management and impact assessment, along with oil spill response, modelling and crisis management planning.
“Environmental assurance and crisis preparedness are two of the most important operational matters facing oil and gas companies, and are issues that BP is leading the industry in taking a proactive response to,” said Mark Howard, oil and gas upstream leader at Arcadis.
“It is testament to our market leading technical expertise, built on years of experience, in both environmental services and operational risk assessment that we are able to provide the quality and breadth of service that BP needs across the globe.”
The agreements will cover 44 countries – but do not include North America.
BP is due back in court tomorrow, where it will argue the compensation agreement for victims of the Deepwater Horizon disaster is being abused by fraudulent claims.
A £5.3billion fund set aside to pay compensation is being drained faster than expected after more than 200,000 payouts so far.
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