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Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group to supply scrubbers to Maryland power plants

BARBERTON, Ohio, February 22, 2008 Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) has been awarded a contract valued at more than $150 million to design and supply four wet flue gas desulfurization (WFGD) units for three Maryland power plants owned and operated by Mirant Mid Atlantic LLC.

The contract was awarded by The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE:SGR), which contracted with Mirant to retrofit emissions control equipment at the three plants.

B&W will provide WFGD absorbers - more commonly called scrubbers - as well as absorber auxiliaries including agitators, absorber recirculation pumps and valves, oxidation air blowers and limestone preparation systems for two coal-fired units at Mirant's 1,400-megawatt (MW) Morgantown Generating Station, one 683 MW coal-fired unit at its Chalk Point Generating Station and one 546 MW coal-fired unit at the Dickerson Generating Station. The Mirant stations supply power to the greater metropolitan Washington, D.C., area in Maryland. Shipment of materials is scheduled to begin in spring 2008, with commissioning planned to start toward the end of 2009.

"This award demonstrates B&W's continued leadership role in the environmental systems market," said Brandon Bethards, B&W PGG President and Chief Operating Officer. "We appreciate our customer's confidence in our project management and engineering capabilities and in our ability to meet tight deadlines while providing an outstanding product."

"We are pleased to have an industry leader like B&W working beside us on this important air-quality project," said Monty Glover, president of the Fossil division in Shaw's Power Group. "Coal-fired generation represents a significant part of our nation's energy portfolio, and clean-air projects like this will enable coal to continue to meet the growing need for electricity."

The Shaw Group, headquartered in Baton Rouge, La., is a global provider of technology, engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance, fabrication, manufacturing, consulting, remediation, and facilities management services for government and private sector clients in the energy, chemical, environmental, infrastructure and emergency response markets.

Mirant is a competitive energy company that produces and sells electricity in the United States. The company owns or leases approximately 10,300 MW of electric generating capacity and operates an asset management and energy marketing organization from its headquarters in Atlanta.

Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) is a major operating unit of The Babcock & Wilcox Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of McDermott International, Inc. B&W PGG is a world leader in the power generation industry and designs, engineers, manufactures, services and constructs steam generating and environmental equipment for utilities and industries worldwide. It is located on the Internet at www.babcock.com.

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