WOOD has won a landmark contract to supply technology for use at a nuclear plant which will reduce its reliance on the North Sea as a rival noted that conditions remain tough on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf. Aberdeen-based Wood has been appointed to supply digital control technologies for use at the Sellafield plant in Cumbria under a $66 (£52m) million contract. The win provides a boost for Wood as the engineering giant grapples with the fallout from the crude price plunge in the North Sea oil services market in which the company made its name.
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