Fluor Corporation Selects AVEVA VNET

Cambridge, England, February 21, 2007 - AVEVA (LSE:AVV), a leading provider of plant design and engineering lifecycle solutions, today announced that Fluor Corporation has selected AVEVA�s VNET solution to manage the information and handover requirements of a major engineering project in Africa. VNET is an application-independent, web-enabled platform for the integration and collaboration of asset information.

Fluor Corporation, one of the world's largest publicly owned engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance services companies, selected AVEVA VNET because of its ability to deliver a quick and efficient implementation and the immediate realization of business benefits to the project.

Alex Giles, Project IM Lead of Fluor Corporation commented:

"Following an evaluation of various products, we identified a number of key benefits that AVEVA VNET provides. These included delivering Seamless Handover from multiple data sources where the handover requirements are governed by detailed client requirements, as well as improving the quality and organization of engineering data, resulting in faster, more intuitive access to information. In turn, this will reduce search time, avoid inconsistencies and improve the coordination of key functions, delivering increased productivity and efficiency in project execution and handover.

"A major benefit for us is the short implementation timeframe which will ensure early operational availability and provide immediate benefits to the project schedule."

Richard Longdon, CEO of AVEVA commented:

"We're delighted to be working with Fluor. Amongst other business advantages, the AVEVA VNET system offers Fluor Corporation the ability to provide earlier visibility of engineering information to the customer through a continuous handover process greatly reducing the cost of handover and helping de-risk the plant operation."

AVEVA VNET is an application-independent, web-enabled platform for the integration and collaboration of asset information. Schematics, 3D models, real-time operational data, documents and data from any application across the entire asset life-cycle can be accessed and navigated in context. By making the information contained within asset data work harder, VNET delivers the most comprehensive digital profile of a physical asset.

About Fluor Corporation

Fluor Corporation is one of the world's largest, publicly owned engineering, procurement, construction, and maintenance services companies. Over the past century, Fluor, through its operating subsidiaries, has become a trusted global business leader by providing exceptional expertise and technical knowledge across every phase of a project. Clients rely on Fluor to deliver world-class solutions that optimize their assets, improve their competitive position, and increase their long-term business success.

Consistently rated as one of the world's safest contractors, Fluor's primary objective is to develop, execute, and maintain capital projects on schedule, within budget, and with operational excellence. The individual and collective expertise of our international work force of more than 41,000 employees provides cost-effective, intelligent solutions in a timely manner. In addition to project offices, Fluor maintains a network of offices in more than 25 countries across 6 continents. Our outstanding dependability, expertise, and safety distinguish Fluor as the pre-eminent leader in the global building services marketplace.

Fluor is a FORTUNE 500 company that is ranked #1 in FORTUNE magazine's "Engineering, Construction" category of America's largest corporations.

www.fluor.com

About AVEVA

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. The Group reported pre-tax profits for the year ended March 2006 of GBP 11 million on revenues of GBP 66 million. The Group has grown consistently since 1967 on the strength of pioneering engineering technology that protects information assets of its customers from the volatile nature of the IT industry.

www.aveva.com

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