Amphos 21

Amphos 21 is a scientific, technical and strategic consulting company founded in 1994. The company offers consulting and engineering services to the nuclear, mining, water resources, sustainability and oil and gas sectors. It is headquartered in Spain and operates subsidiaries in Chile (founded in 2009) and Peru (founded in 2012).

Working within the nuclear sector, Amphos 21 offers consulting and engineering services throughout the entire nuclear fuel cycle, especially in relation to the management of radioactive waste and materials. It provides experimental characterisation, quantitative modelling, monitoring and instrumentation, radiological protection and engineering design services for nuclear facilities in general and for radioactive waste management infrastructure in particular.

Amphos 21 has over 25 years of experience in the mining sector and offers a wide range of consulting and engineering services in relation to the water cycle and environment. These include water cycle management and optimisation, environmental permitting, waste management and minimisation, sustainable mine remediation and closure, contamination management and liabilities, biodiversity, climate change and resilience.

The business also provides integral services related to the entire water cycle, including water resources management planning, hydrogeological, hydrological and hydraulic studies, water reuse alternatives, aquifer and river basin management plans, water infrastructure and water-related nature-based solutions.

It also offers consulting services aimed at promoting sustainable development in both the public administration and the private sector. These include waste and pollutant management, environmental management and policy development, environmental impact assessments, circular economy and life cycle assessment and strategic environmental communication and public outreach.

Within the oil and gas industry, Amphos 21 offers soil-gas surveys for oil exploration, advanced modelling at operational and reservoir scales involving multiphysics and geochemistry, environmental monitoring and CO₂ leakage in onshore fields and communication with public stakeholders.

In short, Amphos 21 delivers consulting and engineering services combining state-of-the-art scientific knowledge and the most advanced technological solutions such as advanced numerical modelling, digital solutions, artificial intelligence and data science.

In the nuclear market, clients include most of the nuclear waste agencies around the world, such us ONDRAF/NIRAS (Belgium), Enresa (Spain), SKB (Sweden), Andra (France), Posiva (Finland), KORAD (Korea) and NUMO (Japan).

Clients within the mining sector include renowned international companies such as Albemarle, Anglo American, BHP, Codelco, CMPDI, Collahuasi, Glencore, Gold Fields, Hudbay Minerals, Kinross Gold, MMG, Minsur, Nexa Resources, Pan American Silver, Southern Copper Corporation and Teck Resources.

In the water sector, clients include river basin authorities, regulators and water utilities in Spain, Perú and Chile, as well as civil engineering construction companies around the world that are responsible for the construction of urban subways, tunnels, airports or infrastructure for hydraulic resilience to climate change, among others. Some notable clients include FCC, ACS Group, Sacyr, WeBuild Group, NGE and OHLA.

In the energy, industrial and oil and gas markets, clients include large multinational corporations such as Acciona, Repsol, TotalEnergies, Ercros, Eaton and Procter & Gamble.