Aker Kvaerner awarded contracts with DuPont

The contracts include work on DuPont facilities in three regions. The first contract covers facilities in Southeastern and Northeastern United States, the second in Mid-America and the third in Germany and Luxembourg. The first contract, worth approximately USD 75 million, is for full service engineering and design and will cover capital projects, site engineering, and related project services. The Aker Kvaerner office in Charleston, West Virginia, will serve as DuPont's regional centre supporting eleven manufacturing sites in the Mid-America region. BE&K's office in Wilmington, Delaware, will provide similar services for DuPont's North-eastern region. Work will continue into 2006. The second contract, worth approximately USD 14 million, is for maintenance and reliability improvement services for seven DuPont plant sites in the Southeastern United States and the Texas Gulf Coast. Aker Kvaerner's specialised operations and maintenance organisation, Aker Kvaerner Bowen, in conjunction with BE&K Industrial Services and HSB Reliability Technologies will provide assessment and implementation of programs designed to improve maintenance and reliability practices, processes, and results, including materials management. Work will continue into 2005. The third contract, worth approximately USD 15 million, is for full service engineering and design. It will cover capital projects engineering and design, site engineering and design, and related project services. The Aker Kvaerner office in Beek (Netherlands) supported by the Aker Kvaerner office in Langenfeld (Germany), will serve as DuPont's regional centre supporting eleven manufacturing sites in Germany, Luxembourg, Austria and The Netherlands. Work will continue into 2006. Helge Lund, Group President and CEO, Aker Kvaerner, added, "DuPont's ability to adapt to change has enabled them to become one of the world's most innovative companies. This new alliance supports both DuPont's and Aker Kvaerner's values, providing the continued platform on which to share knowledge and expertise, creating new ideas and finding solutions to our challenges." ENDS For further information: Vicki Williams, Houston, TX: +01 (713) 685-5739 or vicki.williams @akerkvaerner.com Vanessa Mourant, London: +44 (0)20 7339 1064 or vanessa.mourant@akerkvaerner.com Tore Langballe, Oslo, Norway: +47 67 51 31 06 or tore.langballe@akerkvaerner.com NOTES TO EDITORS Aker Kvaerner is a leading global provider of engineering and construction services, technology products and integrated solutions. Group activities span a number of industries, including Oil and gas upstream and downstream, Process, Pharmaceuticals, Metals, Power, Chemical Pulping, Environmental and Shipbuilding. Aker Kvaerner is a multi-local group of businesses with nearly USD 6 billion of annual revenues and around 34 000 employees in more than 30 countries.