Despite some uncertainty in the market, order intake for the second quarter was NOK 15 billion, bringing total order backlog to NOK 60.3 billion.

"This is a strong order intake and backlog that will offer us increased predictability going forward. The Energy Development & Services (ED&S) business area in particular has had a solid order intake, which secures a good base workload for its maintenance, modifications and operations (MMO) business in the coming years," says Øyvind Eriksen, executive chairman, Aker Solutions.

Aker Solutions is well into a strategy process to further focus and optimise the company's structure and operating model. The ambition is to build an even stronger international delivery model for the field development business, while the maintenance, modifications and operations (MMO) business will continue to focus on the North Sea region. Development of new high-value service concepts will play an increasingly important role for MMO going forward. A likely outcome of this direction will be that the current ED&S business area will be split into two business areas.

"There is a clear potential to develop a delivery model which combines our North Sea field development and project execution experience with low-cost engineering and fabrication. To achieve this we will actively source local partnerships in promising oil and gas regions, which in turn will generate local value creation and provide us with access to these markets. Our local partnerships in China and Kazakhstan - the latter being announced today - are two good examples of this strategy," says Eriksen.

As part of the current strategy process, Aker Solutions is continuing to work on cultivating and growing its Process & Construction (P&C) business. The business area will in the future be independent and will be operating under a separate brand.

"We are moving ahead as planned with the process of separating P&C from our upstream oil and gas business," says Eriksen.

The complete 2nd quarter results 2010 report and presentation are available below and at www.akersolutions.com and www.newsweb.no.

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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 employs approximately 22 000 people 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. As an industrial owner controlling 40.27 percent of the shares in Aker Solutions through Aker Holding AS, Aker ASA takes an active role in the development of Aker Solutions.  

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

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