HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 17, 2009 – Keppel FELS Ltd. has been awarded “Best of Show” in the annual Intergraph® Golden Valve Awards Competition for the company’s detailed view of a semi-submersible drilling tender created with SmartMarine® 3D design software.

The Golden Valve Awards competition is sponsored by Intergraph and is open to all SmartPlant and SmartMarine Enterprise engineering design software users. The winners were announced in Washington, D.C. at Intergraph 2009, the engineering and geospatial software leader’s annual international users’ conference. Keppel FELS’ submission won over the more than 80 entries in this year’s competition.

“We are honored to be named Best of Show in the 2009 Golden Valve Awards Competition,” said Aziz Merchant, general manager (Group Design & Engineering) at Keppel Offshore & Marine. “SmartMarine 3D, which we used to design the winning entry, is one of our key 3D solutions and reinforces our position as the provider of choice and partner for solutions in the offshore and marine industry.”

Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine president, said, “We continue to see increasing adoption of our Smart 3D design solutions by industry leaders for its ability to increase productivity and accelerate projects, and the many Golden Valve entries this year using this next-generation technology are evidence of this trend.” 

SmartPlant Enterprise and its marine and offshore counterpart SmartMarine Enterprise are integrated solutions suites that provide design, construction, fabrication, materials and engineering data management capabilities needed for the creation, safe operation and maintenance and capital Plant Lifecycle Management (cPLM) of large-scale process, power, marine and offshore assets.

The ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analyst firm, ranked Intergraph the No. 1 overall engineering design 3D software and process engineering tools (PET) provider worldwide according to its PET Worldwide Outlook Market Analysis and Forecast through 2013.

Other Golden Valve award winners include:

Category: Working Views

    * 1st Place – Dongkwon Lee, Samsung Heavy Industries
    * 2nd Place – Carolina Braganca and Cristiane Alvarenga, ECM S.A. Projectos Industriais
    * 3rd Place – Martin T. Ammann Jr., Shaw Group
    * Honorable Mention: Darío Rigaud Méndez, EmpresasY&V; Kevin J. Alba, Selas Fluid Processing Corp.; and Soonmi Jeon, Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd.

Category: Visually Complex

    * 1st Place – A R Vivekraj, L&T Valdel Engineering Ltd.
    * 2nd Place – Kenneth R. Houston, Selas Fluid Processing Corp.
    * 3rd Place – Michael Bashore, WorleyParsons Group Inc.
    * Honorable Mention: Dongkwon Lee, Samsung Heavy Industries; and Robert Anderson, Linde Process Plants Inc.

Category: Rendering and Ray Traces

    * 1st Place – William Fisch, Selas Fluid Processing Corp.
    * 2nd Place – Carolina Braganca and Cristiane Alvarenga, ECM S.A. Projectos Industriais
    * 3rd Place – Emil P. Kushner Jr., Selas Fluid Processing Corp.
    * Honorable Mention: Rhys Ryan and Scott Foster, WorleyParsons Services Pty Ltd.; and Jimmie Cannon, Linde Process Plants Inc.

Category: Animation

    * 1st Place – Augusto Munhão, Promon Engenharia SA
    * 2nd Place – Jerzy Chrzanowski and Michael J. Kosanovich, Westinghouse Electric Co.
    * 3rd Place – Augusto Munhão, Promon Engenharia SA
    * Honorable Mention: Soo Hyun Park, Young Min Lee, and Chang Jae Lee, Hyundai Engineering Co. Ltd.; and Zhao Ying Lu and Xu Zhang, Chinergy

All the place winners will receive a monetary award for their efforts and will also have their work appear on Intergraph’s Web site, in the division’s Insight magazine and the 2010 Intergraph Process, Power & Marine calendar.

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About Intergraph
Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph’s industry-specific software to organize vast amounts of data into understandable visual representations and actionable intelligence. Intergraph’s software and services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world.

Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I).  Intergraph PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design, construction and operation of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially-powered solutions to the defense and intelligence, public safety and security, government, transportation, photogrammetry, utilities, and communications industries. For more information, visit www.intergraph.com.

David Joffrion
Manager, Corporate Communications
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David.Joffrion@Intergraph.com

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