Press release re: new director (N1008654.DOC;1) NEWS RELEASE

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Kirk J. Meche Jeffrey M. Favret

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 16, 2015 GULF ISLAND FABRICATION, INC. ANNOUNCES PROJECT AWARD

Houston, TX -- Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. (NASDAQ: GIFI), announced today that, through its subsidiary Gulf Island L.L.C., it has signed a contract with an oil and gas company with operations in Trinidad for the fabrication of the topsides component for the jacket and piles offshore project announced early this month. Revenue backlog and man-hours associated with this project will be reported in connection with the Company's announcement of financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2015.
Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, is a leading fabricator of offshore drilling and production platforms, hull and/or deck sections of floating production platforms and other specialized structures used in the development and production of offshore oil and gas reserves. These structures include jackets and deck sections of fixed production platforms; hull and/or deck sections of floating production platforms (such as tension leg platforms ("TLPs"), "SPARs", "FPSOs" and "MinDOCs"), piles, wellhead protectors, subsea templates and various production, compressor and utility modules, offshore living quarters, towboats, liftboats, offshore supply vessels, dry docks, tanks and barges. The Company also provides offshore interconnect pipe hook- up, inshore marine construction, manufacture and repair of pressure vessels, heavy lifts such as ship integration and TLP module integration, loading and offloading of jack-up drilling rigs, semi-submersible drilling rigs, TLPs, SPARs, or other similar cargo, onshore and offshore scaffolding, piping insulation services, and steel warehousing and sales.

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