At the request of the company's largest shareholder, Aker Holding AS,
the board of Aker Solutions ASA has called an Extraordinary General
Meeting for 8 June 2009.

Items on the agenda include the election of Directors. A new Director
is to be elected to replace Heidi M. Petersen, who recently resigned
from the board. Aker Holding also wants a new independent Director to
be elected in place of one of the Aker-affiliated Directors on
today's board.

The nomination committee for Aker Solutions ASA has the following
composition: Leif-Arne Langøy (Chairman), Gerhard Heiberg, Kjeld
Rimberg and Mette Wikborg.

In connection with the forthcoming Extraordinary General Meeting, the
nomination committee has met twice. It has received and discussed
proposals for new Directors and explored with the Aker-affiliated
Directors their possible resignation. Leif-Arne Langøy has announced
that he is prepared to step down. On that basis, the nomination
committee submits the following unanimous recommendation:

That Ida Helliesen and Mikael Lilius be elected as Directors for the
period until the company's Annual General Meeting in 2011.

The Board otherwise has the following four shareholder-elected
Directors: Øyvind Eriksen (Chairman), Lone Fønss Schrøder, Vibeke
Hammer Madsen and Kjell Inge Røkke. The employees of the Aker
Solutions group have elected the following four employee-elected
Directors: Atle Teigland, Åsmund Knutsen, Arild Håvik and Arve Toft.


Leif-Arne Langøy
Chairman of the nomination committee



Curricula vitae for the two nominated Directors

Ida Helliesen joined Norsk Hydro in 1980 and held a number of leading
positions in that company until her retirement in 2007. She served
for the last eight years as chief financial officer. From 2007 until
the spring of 2009, she has assisted Hydro on a number of issues,
including completion of the merger between Hydro's oil and energy
business and Statoil. Ms Helliesen is a Director of Statistisk
Sentralbyrå, Storebrand Bank and Skagerak Energi. She is also a
member of the Ministry of Finance's council on investment strategy
for the Government Pension Fund - Global. Ms Helliesen has an MSc in
business economics from the Norwegian School of Economics and
Business Administration, and is a Norwegian citizen.

Mikael Lilius was president and CEO of Fortum from 2000 to May 2009.
This Finnish company is one of the largest energy enterprises in the
Nordic region, and also has substantial operations in the Baltic
states. From 1990, he was chief executive of the Swedish
pharmaceuticals company  Incentive AB, which changed its name to
Gambro AB in 1998. Gambro is owned by the  Swedish investment company
Investor AB. Mr Lilius is a member of the infrastructure investment
advisory committee of the Swedish investment company EQT and is a
Director of the Norwegian energy company Hafslund ASA. A graduate of
the Hanken Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki, Mr Lilius is a
Finnish citizen.


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