Market

*   Booked NOK 9.0 billion in new orders
*   Healthy order backlog at NOK 56.5 billion
*   Won Goliat Subsea contract


Operations

*   Cash flow from operating activities NOK 2.4 billion
*   Net current operating assets reduced to NOK 1.9 billion
*   Net interest bearing debt reduced to NOK 4.9 billion
*   Q3 EBITDA of NOK 1 billion - Q4 expected on par with Q3
*   The Gjøa hull arrived at Aker Solutions' yard in Stord on October
  5, on schedule
*   Delivered nine drilling packages year to date - two more
  scheduled for delivery in fourth quarter

The full report and presentation can be downloaded from
www.akersolutions.com and the links below:

ENDS

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

Media: Jannik Lindbæk jr., SVP Corporate Communications, Aker
Solutions. Tel: +47 67 51 30 36, Mob: +47 977 55 622

Career opportunities: visit http://www.akersolutions.com/CareerCentre

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 58 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. 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.


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