Shaw Wins Fossil Maintenance Contract with Arizona Public Service

BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

The Shaw Group Inc. SHAW today announced it has signed a new contract with Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) to provide maintenance and construction services to eight fossil power plants in Arizona and New Mexico. The fossil contract is in addition to Shaw's contract with APS to provide maintenance, modifications, construction and radiological protection services to its Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, located 55 miles west of Phoenix, Arizona.

“With the addition of fossil fleet services, we are continuing to develop a strong alliance with APS to help them safely and efficiently generate electricity for the long term,” said Ron McCall, president of Shaw's Plant Services Division. “Our successful model of directly managing projects, which embeds Shaw's vertically integrated services, will help seamlessly meet the evolving needs of our client.”

“Arizona's extreme temperatures and historical growth require the availability of power plants maintained at the highest level,” said Mark Schiavoni, senior vice president of APS Fossil Generation. “Shaw clearly has demonstrated it is able to provide the maintenance services our fossil plants need to help ensure the high level of reliability our customers expect.”

The undisclosed value of the three-year contract will be included in Shaw's Plant Services segment's backlog of unfilled orders in the second quarter of fiscal year 2012.

Shaw is one of the largest maintenance providers to the power and process industries in the U.S., offering full-service plant engineering, reliability, turnaround and outage services with construction management and modification support. Shaw is an expert in retrofitting existing power plants with air quality control systems, including wet and dry flue gas desulfurization (FGD), NO_X, and mercury removal and particulate emissions control systems.

Shaw is also the leading provider of nuclear maintenance, providing systemwide maintenance and modification services to 44 of the 104 of operating nuclear power reactors, including the country's two largest nuclear fleets and largest nuclear power plant.

Headquartered in Phoenix, APS is Arizona's largest and longest-serving electric utility, providing electricity to more than 1.1 million customers in 11 of the state's 15 counties.

The Shaw Group Inc. SHAW is a leading global provider of engineering, construction, technology, fabrication, remediation and support services for clients in the energy, chemicals, environmental, infrastructure and emergency response industries. A Fortune 500 company with fiscal year 2011 annual revenues of $5.9 billion, Shaw has approximately 27,000 employees around the world and is a power sector industry leader according to Engineering News-Record's list of Top 500 Design Firms. For more information, please visit Shaw's website at www.shawgrp.com.

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