Press Release

Wison Heavy Industry selects AVEVA for use on Offshore Projects

12 August 2008

AVEVA (LSE:AVV), the leading supplier of engineering IT systems for the plant and marine industries, is proud to announce that Wison Heavy Industry’s Design Centre will be using AVEVA solutions.

Wison Heavy Industry Co. Ltd is a major subsidiary of the Wison Group and serves the upstream Oil and Gas industries internationally. The company, headquartered in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China, boasts two world-class offshore fabrication yards operating to international standards of quality and safety delivering drilling rigs, modules, jackets, integrated large decks, drill ships, offshore support vessels and associated structures for fixed and floating platforms. The company also carries out FPSO conversions.

Mr. Huang Xin, Managing Director, Wison Heavy Industry Co. Ltd, said:

"Our mission is to become a first class fabrication contractor capable of delivering all kinds of offshore projects, while providing high quality service design and construction service to international and domestic clients. AVEVA solutions will aid us in reaching this goal as it has powerful design, engineering and production tools that will ensure our products are competitively priced."

Peter Finch, President, AVEVA Asia Pacific, said:

"Wison has everything going right for them; from excellent yard facilities, to employees with the right skill set. Completing this scene is AVEVA solutions, which will enable Wison to ensure that their projects are efficiently executed within the shortest time frame."

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For further information, please contact:

Youli Hooi

AVEVA Asia Pacific

Tel: +603 2176 1234

youli.hooi@aveva.com

About Wison Heavy Industry

Wison Heavy Industry is a subsidiary of Wison Group Holding Limited serving the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry. They provide two, purpose-built, world-class offshore fabrication yards operating to international standards of quality and safety delivering competitively priced modules, jackets, decks, offshore support vessels and associated structures for fixed and floating platforms. http://www.wison.com/offshore/en/index.htm

About AVEVA Group plc

AVEVA Group plc is one of the world’s foremost and fastest-growing lifecycle engineering IT solutions and services providers to the oil and gas, paper and pulp, power, chemical, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding industries. Listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:AVV), the Group reported pre-tax profits for the year ended March 2008 of GBP 45 million on revenues of GBP 127.6 million. The Group has grown consistently since 1967 on the strength of pioneering engineering technology that protects the information assets of its customers from the volatile nature of the IT industry.

The Group’s history of innovation spans five decades and has produced most of today’s major engineering IT technologies. Serving over 1700 clients, AVEVA has a dominant position in many market sectors both on and offshore. In May 2004, the Group acquired Tribon Solutions AB, the market-leading shipbuilding solution company and now serves 85% of the world’s top 20 shipbuilders.

The Group’s clients include leading plant owner operators, shipbuilders and engineering contractors such as Aker Solutions, Alstom, AMEC, Areva NP, Babcock Marine, BASF, BP, Chevron, China National Nuclear Co (CNNC), China Power Engineering Consulting Group Co. (CPECC), CNOOC Offshore Oil Engineering, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, EDF, ExxonMobil, Foster Wheeler Power Group, Harland & Wolff, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Jacobs, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, SBM, Shell, Sinopec Engineering, Statoil, TKMS—ThyssenKrupp Marine System, Uhde, VT Shipbuilding, Wood Group (Alliance & Mustang) and Worley Parsons.

Headquartered in Cambridge, England, AVEVA Group plc and its operating subsidiaries currently employ more than 750 staff worldwide in England, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Dubai, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, South Korea and the USA. http://www.aveva.com/

© AVEVA Solutions Ltd and its subsidiaries 2008. All product names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective holders.

About AVEVA Marine solutions

AVEVA Marine combines two ’best in class’ solutions—the industry-standard Tribon range and AVEVA’s unique object-based technologies—to form the ultimate set of marine design and engineering tools. Combining these proven capabilities and adding numerous productivity-enhancing new features, AVEVA Marine offers risk-free business advantage in a competitive industry. www.aveva.com/marine

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