BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2004--The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE:SGR) today announced that its subsidiary, Stone and Webster Inc., was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services contract by Catlettsburg Refining LLC, a subsidiary of Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC, for a kerosene desulphurization unit. The contract value was not disclosed.

The kerosene desulphurization unit will produce 25,000 barrels per day of ultra low sulfur kerosene in compliance with the Clean Air Act regulations. Engineering and procurement services have already begun and full mobilization to the field is scheduled for February 2005 with completion of the project scheduled for the spring of 2006. Shaw has been providing maintenance, construction and turnaround services to the Catlettsburg refinery since January 2003.

J.M. Bernhard, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Shaw, commented, "We continue to focus on developing and strengthening our relationships with key customers like Marathon Ashland and on expanding our scope of services to them. Along with maintenance and construction services at Catlettsburg, we have projects at several other Marathon Ashland locations, including the diesel and gasoline clean fuels projects in Garyville, Louisiana and a clean fuels revamp project in St. Paul, Minnesota. We are committed to providing a single source for comprehensive, innovative solutions to all of our customers."

Based in Findlay, Ohio, Marathon Ashland Petroleum is the nation's fifth-largest oil refiner with 935,000 barrels-per-day capacity in its seven-refinery system. Marathon Ashland is a limited liability company owned 62 percent by Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO) and 38 percent by Ashland Inc. (NYSE:ASH).

The Shaw Group Inc. is a leading global provider of technology, engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance, fabrication, manufacturing, consulting, remediation, and facilities management services for government and private sector clients in the power, process, environmental, infrastructure and emergency response markets. A Fortune 500 company, The Shaw Group is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and employs approximately 17,000 people at its offices and operations in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. For further information, please visit the Company's website at www.shawgrp.com.

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