The contract will be executed by the Aker Solutions yard in Verdal, and includes engineering, procurement, construction, load-out and sea-fastening of the steel jacket, bridge support jacket and associated piles.

 

The detail engineering starts immediately, while fabrication in Verdal will commence in November 2010. The jacket - and the bridge support jacket - will be delivered in the spring of 2012, and will then become number 36 and 37 in the series of jackets delivered by Aker Verdal.

  

ENDS

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Media:

Nina Udnes Tronstad, president Aker Solutions, Verdal. Phone + 47 909 98 570

Tove Strand Trana, communication manager Aker Solutions, Verdal. Phone + 47 46 40 11 03

 

Investor relations:
Lasse Torkildsen, Senior Vice President IR, Aker Solutions ASA, Tel: +47 67 51 30 39, Mob: +47 911 37 194

 

Career opportunities: www.akersolutions.com/careers

Aker Solutions ASA, through its subsidiaries and affiliates ("Aker Solutions"), is a leading global provider of engineering and construction services, technology products and integrated solutions. Aker Solutions' business serves several industries, including oil & gas, refining & chemicals, mining & metals and power generation. The Aker Solutions group is organised in a number of separate legal entities. Aker Solutions is used as the common brand/trademark for most of these entities.

Aker Solutions' parent company is Aker Solutions ASA. Aker Solutions has aggregated annual revenues of approximately NOK 54 billion and has approximately 22 000 employees and 8 000 contract staff in about 30 countries.

Aker Solutions is part of Aker (www.akerasa.com), a group of premier companies with a focus on energy, maritime and marine resource industries. The Aker companies share a common set of values and a long tradition of industrial innovation. Through its majority-owned holding company Aker Holding AS, Aker controls 40.27 percent of the shares in Aker Solutions, and takes an active role in the development of the company.

This press release may include forward-looking information or statements and is subject to our disclaimer, see our web-pages www.akersolutions.com.

This information is subject of the disclosure requirements acc. to §5-12 vphl (Norwegian Securities Trading Act)

 

 

This information is subject of the disclosure requirements acc. to §5-12 vphl (Norwegian Securities Trading Act)