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Technip-J P Kenny JV Selected for the Greater Gorgon Upstream Development in Australia

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

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"The QRDC further cements Alcan's leading position in alumina technology
research," said Jacynthe Cote, President and Chief Executive Officer, Alcan
Bauxite and Alumina. QRDC will
directly employ world-class chemists, metallurgists and chemical engineers,
joining more than 3,500 people employed at Alcan operations in Australia -
including more than 725 Queenslanders in Brisbane," said Richard Yank,
President of Pacific Operations, Alcan Bauxite and Alumina, at the centre's
opening.

Alcan is a multinational, market-driven company and a global leader in
aluminium and packaging .

Ivanhoe to form Falcon(TM) exploration joint venture with world's largest mining company on 28 000 square kilometres in Mongolia's South Gobi region

Technip's website is accessible at http: //www.

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The purpose-built
Queensland Research and Development Centre (QRDC) will develop new
technologies and enhance existing alumina production processes to improve
productivity, environmental performance and employee safety.
Located at the Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies (QCAT), a
joint venture between the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation (CSIRO) and the Queensland Government, the QRDC was officially
opened by the Honourable Ian Macfarlane MP, Federal Minister for Industry,
Tourism and Resources and Michael Choi MP, Member for Capalaba, who was
representing the Honourable Tony McGrady MP, Queensland Minister for State
Development and Innovation.au .

J P Kenny's website is accessible at http://www.

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BHP Billiton will fund all aspects of the survey; inclusive
of mobilization, as well as processing and interpretation, using the most
advanced and proprietary techniques.

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PARIS----Technip and J P Kenny
announced today that their Australian entities, Technip Oceania Pty
Ltd and J P Kenny Pty Ltd (Perth), in a 50/50 joint venture, have been
selected as the front end engineering and design (FEED ) and
engineering, procurement, construction management (EPCM) contractor
with respect to the upstream facilities for the Greater Gorgon
development.
The joint venture has been issued with a letter of authorisation
(LOA) by the development's operator, Chevron Australia Pty Ltd, to
commence work on the project. 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.

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BRISBANE, Australia, July 26 - Alcan Inc. (NYSE,
TSX: AL) announced today the opening of its new alumina research and
development (R+D) facility in Brisbane, Australia .
Under the terms of the agreement, and subject to the execution of the
definitive Option and Joint-Venture agreements, BHP Billiton will use its
proprietary Falcon system and solely fund a major geophysical survey of a
minimum of 30,000 line kilometres over the whole or selected parts of the
Falcon Gobi Project. Following BHP Billiton's vesting in the
project, a 50/50 joint venture will be established between BHP Billiton and
Ivanhoe, and the parties will contribute all further exploration and
development costs on a pro-rata basis.

Australia is an island continent situated in the southern hemisphere, south of Asia.

Australia has a population heading towards 20 million people, and is split up into six states and two main territories:

Queensland
New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
Victoria
Tasmania
Northern Territory
South Australia
Western Australia

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Alcan employs almost 70,000 people and has operating facilities
in 55 countries and regions. All work will be conducted from dedicated JV project offices
located in Perth, Western Australia. The
Group has three businesses -- Engineering + Production Facilities,
Well Support, and Gas Turbine Services -- providing a range of
engineering, production support, maintenance management and industrial
gas turbine overhaul and repair services to the oil + gas, and power
generation industries worldwide.

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With world-class operations in primary aluminium ,
fabricated aluminium as well as flexible and specialty packaging, aerospace
applications, bauxite mining and alumina processing, today's Alcan is well
positioned to meet and exceed its customers ' needs for innovative solutions
and service.

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Under the LOA, the joint venture will be
mobilised immediately to conduct technical studies and front end
planning.

This DMOZ category relates to sites located in Australia.

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Alcan's interests in Australia include the Gove alumina refinery in the
Northern Territory, which is undergoing an AU$2 billion expansion, a
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4 million purpose-built R+D facility was
jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland governments.alcan .

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This technology gives BHP Billiton a competitive
advantage in the search for mineral and hydrocarbon deposits and has helped in
the resource evaluation of some major operations, such as the Ekati Diamond
Mine in Northwest Territories, Canada, and the Cannington Silver and Lead Mine
in Queensland, Australia. The risk factors that could cause
actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements include, but
are not restricted to, operational risk, environmental risk, financial risk ,
geo-political risk, commodity risk, currency risk and other statements that
are not historical facts as disclosed under the heading "Risk Factors" and
elsewhere in the corporation's periodic filings with securities regulators in
Canada and the United States.

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"Combined with Alcan's existing Bauxite and Alumina R+D
facility in Canada, the QRDC places the Company in a unique position to
provide innovative technology for the global alumina industry," she added.com.

Ivanhoe produces LME grade A
copper from its Monywa joint venture in Myanmar.

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"Construction of the AU$2. Ivanhoe 's advanced exploration and development-stage
projects - Oyu Tolgoi, Kharmagtai, Yellow Hills and Bronze Fox - are not
included in the Falcon Gobi Project. The development is located approximately 70-140 km
offshore Western Australia at the North West Shelf in 220-1,300m water
depth and includes both the Gorgon and Jansz fields. The Wood Group is an
international energy services company with $2.

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For further information, please visit http://www. When used in this document, the words such as "could," "plan,"
"estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "potential," "should," and similar
expressions , are forward-looking statements.

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About Technip:

With a workforce of about 19,000 persons , Technip ranks among the
top five corporations in the field of oil, gas and petrochemical
engineering , construction and services.

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The new Ivanhoe-BHP Billiton joint-venture,
called the Falcon Gobi Project , provides BHP Billiton the right to earn up to
50% of all minerals found on the project, other than coal, by spending US$8
million in exploration costs.

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Alcan opens new alumina R+D facility in Australia

BHP Billiton expects to complete its Falcon survey before
December 31, 2006. This competitive advantage is backed by BHP
Billiton's exclusivity on the technology coupled with its unique value -added
processing and interpretation capabilities.
The Greater Gorgon development, representing an US$11 billion
investment, involves a joint venture which includes Chevron, Shell and
ExxonMobil . Headquartered in Paris, the
Group is listed in New York and Paris.

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The Falcon Gobi Project covers approximately 22% of Ivanhoe's land
holdings in this region.
Ivanhoe shares are listed on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges
under the symbol IVN.3bn sales, employing
more than 14,000 people worldwide and operating in 36 countries.

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"This joint venture provides Ivanhoe with access to BHP Billiton's state-
of-the art Falcon airborne technology to quickly evaluate a significant
portion of our exploration ground in the South Gobi that is not amenable to
conventional exploration techniques," said Mr.
Ivanhoe has a 100% interest in the Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold project in
Mongolia and owns or controls exploration rights covering approximately
130,000 square kilometres in central and southern Mongolia, where additional
copper-gold and coal discoveries have been made .
Those fields will supply gas to a 10 MTPA LNG facility on Barrow
Island, and to the domestic market in the mainland.

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4 percent shareholding in Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL), a 51. ULAANBAATAR , Mongolia, May 17 - Ivanhoe Mines
Deputy Chairman Edward Flood announced today that the company has agreed to
form a joint- venture partnership with BHP Billiton to use BHP Billiton's
proprietary Falcon(TM) airborne gravity gradiometer system to explore
approximately 28,000 square kilometres of Ivanhoe's non-core exploration
ground in southern Mongolia. Flood.

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About J P Kenny

J P Kenny is one of the world's largest and most innovative
pipeline and subsea engineering and management contractors and is a
wholly owned subsidiary of the Wood Group.com

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Falcon is an airborne gravity gradiometer that measures minute changes in
the earth's gravity.

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5 percent
shareholding in the Tomago aluminium smelter in New South Wales, bauxite
reserves in the Northern Territory and North Queensland as well as a planned
production facility in Adelaide, South Australia for Stelvin wine screw caps.