31 August 2010 - Statoil has awarded to Aker Solutions  Marulk tie-in to the
floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Norne. Aker Solutions
estimates the value of the work to be approximately NOK 120 million.

"This award falls within our core business and strategic objective of pursuing
more advanced and complex modification projects in addition to the smaller
modifications included in the frame agreements recently awarded by Statoil. It
also confirms our position as a strong service provider within the modification
business in Mid Norway", says Stian Vemmestad, president of maintenance,
modifications and operations in Aker Solutions.

Aker Solutions is currently working on many projects to exploit the capacity of
existing infrastructure to bring in new and smaller fields. Marulk tie-in to
Norne falls in to line of a series of tie-in projects connected to Norne FPSO.

The Marulk field is located in the Norwegian Sea approximately 30 kilometers
southwest of the Norne field at a water depth of 365 meters in the PL122. The
initial development will consist of two wells tied back to the Norne FPSO, the
northernmost production facility on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

The scope of the project is to facilitate Norne FPSO for installation and
start-up of the Marulk template. The execution phase is based on a front end
engineering design (FEED) study performed by Aker Solutions. In order to
accommodate for a tie-back of Marulk at Norne topside a new flowline will be
hooked up to both the production and the test manifold.

The Marulk Tie-in to Norne is an amendment to an existing modifications contract
Aker Solutions has with Statoil for Norne. Work under the contract starts
immediately and the project will be completed in March 2012.

The project will be managed out of Aker Solutions' regional office in Trondheim.

The contract parties are Aker Solutions' subsidiary Aker Offshore Partner AS and
Statoil Petroleum AS.

Statoil ASA as operator for PL 128 is performing the Topside Modification work
on Norne as part of the agreement between PL 128 and PL 122. ENI Norge is
operator on PL 122

ENDS

For further information, please contact:

Media:
Mariken Holter, VP Communications, Aker Solutions. Tel: +47 67 52 74 35, Mob:
+47 917 87 358

Investor relations:
Lasse Torkildsen, SVP Investor Relations, Aker Solutions. Tel: +47 67 51 30 39,
Mob: +47 911 37 194

Suppliers:
For further information about sourcing and potential subcontracts for this
project, please contact the relevant BA Global Sourcing Champion.

Career opportunities:
Visithttp://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 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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