Baker Energy Receives Contract Award From Cuu Long Operating Company

HOUSTON (7/27/07)—Baker Energy, a unit of the Michael Baker Corporation (Amex:BKR), announced today that it has been awarded a contract from Cuu Long Joint Operating Company for the supply and development of a computerized maintenance management system for the Su Tu Vang Central Production Platform facility located offshore of Vietnam.  The facility is jointly owned by PetroVietnam Exploration and Production, ConocoPhillips, Korean National Oil Corporation, SK Corp and Geopetrol.  The approximately $2 million contract is slated to begin in mid-August 2007.

“We are a global leader in maintenance management system solutions for energy facilities, and will deliver on Cuu Long’s goals and expectations,” stated Alain Welter, project manager at Baker Energy. “This is an exciting award for Baker Energy’s Applied Technologies Group, and we are looking forward to working with the Cuu Long Joint Operating Company.”

Baker Energy works with oil and gas companies worldwide to provide total asset management solutions.  By integrating its diverse operating and management skills, Baker has evolved into a single source supplier of competency-based personnel recruiting and training, comprehensive operations and maintenance, and supply chain management services.

Michael Baker Corporation (http://www.mbakercorp.com) provides engineering and operations and maintenance services for its clients’ most complex challenges worldwide.  The firm’s primary practice areas are aviation, environmental, facilities, geospatial information technologies, pipelines & telecommunications, transportation, water/wastewater, and oil & gas.  With more than 4,500 employees in over 40 offices across the United States and internationally, Baker is focused on providing services that span the complete life cycle of infrastructure and managed asset projects.