Arnaud Real Appointed Senior Vice President, Financial Control of Technip

Business Wire, May 5, 2008

PARIS -- Regulatory News:

Effective today, Arnaud Real is appointed Senior Vice President, Financial Control of Technip (Paris:TEC) (ISIN:FR0000131708). He reports to Olivier Dubois, President and Chief Financial Officer.

Arnaud Real joins us from Alcatel-Lucent where he was Corporate Controller. He spent 17 years in finance and financial control with the Alcatel Group in France and in Belgium. Previously he worked for Coopers & Lybrand in Paris as an Auditor.

With a workforce of 23,000 people, Technip ranks among the top five corporations in the field of oil, gas and petrochemical engineering, construction and services. The Group is headquartered in Paris.

The Group's main operating centers and business units are located in France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, the USA, Brazil, Abu-Dhabi, China, India, Malaysia and Australia.

In support of its activities, the Group manufactures flexible pipes and umbilicals, and builds offshore platforms in its manufacturing plants and fabrication yards in France, Brazil, the UK, the USA, Finland and Angola, and has a fleet of specialized vessels for pipeline installation and subsea construction.

The Technip share is listed in Paris on Euronext Paris.