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FOXBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, USA – January 24, 2007 – Invensys Process Systems has been awarded an operator training system contract by PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical Company. The implementation will provide a comprehensive SimSci-Esscor operator training simulator (OTS) for the chemical section of the company’s integrated refinery and chemical revamping project, which will process imported sour crude from Kazakhstan.

The contract includes the design, outfit, installation and tuning, and acceptance check of the software/hardware platform for the simulation system. The scope includes process modeling of the six chemical section units (ethylene, styrene, high density polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene and styrene-butadiene rubber/SBS), along with integration with emulators for the distributed control system, safety instrumented systems (SIS) and PLCs. Related engineering services, such as technical training and support, are also included in the contract.

The operator training system (OTS) implementation employs the DYNSIM process simulation solution (http://www.simsci-esscor.com/), for high-fidelity plant modeling in dynamic and steady states. These models are used to train control room and equipment operators and supervisors on the characteristics and interactions of plant’s systems. The simulation network also includes the TRISIM Plus solution for replicating the control logic in the Triconex (http://www.triconex.com/) safety instrumented systems. In addition, Invensys will also provide a control system human machine interface (HMI) emulation and checkout for a Yokogawa DCS at the plant.

By using the SimSci-Esscor OTS system, PetroChina Dushanzi will be able to:

• Enhance the knowledge and competency of the operator
• Reduce the startup time and shutdown period
• Improve quality by reducing off-spec product
• Improve safety and extend actual safety run-time of equipment
• Minimize environmental risk

Besides being used for operator training, the OTS system will help improve process design, control system checkout, DCS configuration and tuning, diagnosis, startup and shut down, and operation optimization. It also incorporates the Trainee Performance Monitor tool, which allows PetroChina Dushanzi to regularly check and evaluate trainee performance.

“Invensys made our shortlist of vendors with the required resources, experience, and knowledge base needed to successfully implement this important OTS project. From this list, we ultimately selected Invensys because the company’s DYNSIM OTS solution is based on rigorous models, and utilizes very flexible object-oriented technology with a user-friendly Windows interface.” said the OTS supervisor of PetroChina Dushanzi. “Furthermore, the SimSci-Esscor simulators will also provide plant engineers with an effective validation tool to test and evaluate new control strategies in a safe, offline environment.”

“PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical Company’s selection of the OTS system shows that our world class rigorous model-based dynamic simulation technologies have been recognized not only by the subsidiaries of multi-national companies in China, but also by leading Chinese companies,” said by Mr. Li Yanjie, Director of Solutions Business for Invensys Process Systems China, “The petroleum and petrochemical industries in China are growing fast, and we are prepared to meet the demand with our OTS and other solutions and systems.”

About PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical Company
PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical Company is a subsidiary of PetroChina Company Limited, starting as the Dushanzi refinery, which was founded in 1936. The company is located at Dushanzi city, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. With more than 6,000 employees, PetroChina Dushanzi operates 53 refining and petrochemical units with crude process capability of six million tons/year and ethylene throughputs of 220k tons/year. It also has a 135 MW coal power plant. The total assets are RMB 11.1 billion with annual sales revenue exceeding RMB 20 billion. The ten million tons/year refinery and one million tons/year ethylene projects are under construction.

About Invensys
nvensys is the world leader in industrial asset performance management. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions and Performance Management services groups, Invensys’ automation businesses includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world’s largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills. For more information on Invensys’ process automation businesses, please visit www.invensys.com/ps.

The Invensys Group (http://www.invensys.com/) is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.

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SimSci-Esscor, Invensys, DYNSIM, TRISIM Plus, Triconex, Foxboro, Wonderware and Avantis are trademarks of Invensys plc, its subsidiaries, or affiliates. All other brands and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

DALLAS, TEXAS, USA (INVENSYS CUSTOMER CONFERENCE) - December 6, 2006 – Question: What do Star Trek®, muscle cars, IBM 360/370 systems, artificial hearts, mini-skirts, DataCraft/Harris computers, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Compuserve and Bonnie & Clyde have in common?

Answer: When those things were breaking onto the scene, two men in Fullerton, California were huddled around a kitchen table working out the details for a process simulation software product and a company to sell it. In 1967, they started that company, Simulation Sciences Inc., which eventually became the SimSci-Esscor unit of Invensys Process Systems.

In January 2007, the SimSci-Esscor (http://www.simsci-esscor.com/) unit of Invensys marks the 40th Anniversary of its simulation solutions business. The milestone is being celebrated at a gala reception with SimSci-Esscor users at the 2006 Invensys Process Systems Annual Customer Conference in Dallas December 4-7.

The business started when founders, Dr. Y. L. Wang and A. Paul Oleson, developed a distillation simulation program with functionality that was not available commercially in the late 1960s. The first programs, SP01 to SP03, and subsequent related Simulation Sciences programs, became widely accepted for design in the hydrocarbon processing industries. As increased simulation capabilities were added, these programs evolved into the SSI/100 simulator in the mid-1970s, which was made available through computer time-sharing services. This was a successful program used around the world. In fact, there are still SSI/100 user manuals out there today.

In 1979, the SSI/100 program was superseded with the introduction of PROCESS, which found much success as refining, petrochemical and chemical companies paid more attention to energy conservation and cost savings. One subsequent enhancement was the HEXTRAN program for heat exchanger operations. This product is still an important part of the SimSci-Esscor offering today.

In the 1980s, the successful PROCESS product evolved into PRO/II, which was initially introduced in 1988 as a PC version and has since evolved into the leading process flowsheet simulator for refining. And in 1983, a company called Esscor was founded in Solano Beach, California. This company developed software products used for dynamic control simulation (later to become the DYNSIM family) and operator training simulators in the power generation, pulp and paper, oil and gas, and chemical process industries.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, both companies “refined” their software product offerings and increased their presence in the process industries. In October 1996, Simulation Sciences Inc. completed its IPO and then acquired Visual Solutions, Salumanek & Assoc. and Biles & Assoc., as well as part of Litwin/Raytheon Process Automation. In 1998, SimSci was acquired by Siebe plc, the predecessor to Invensys. A year later, Siebe acquired Esscor. Upon the creation of Invensys, and its Invensys Process Systems business in 2002, the two acquisitions were combined to form SimSci-Esscor as it is known today.

“SimSci-Esscor solutions maintain a leadership role in simulation for the process industries, all going back to the dedication of the founders and technologists over many years of superior software development and customer support,” said Ken Brown, president of Invensys Process Systems and himself a former vice president and general manager of SimSci-Esscor. “Our simulation products continue to evolve and improve to help thousands of customers around the globe run their processes more efficiently, more profitably, and with greater levels of safety and compliance.”

While the trends, developments, music and movies of the late 1960s remain as memories recalled from time to time, SimSci-Esscor products, and the people who support them, remain sharply focused on keeping users in the process industries current and prepared for future growth.

About Invensys
Invensys is the world leader in industrial asset performance management. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions and Performance Management services groups, Invensys’ automation businesses includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world’s largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills. For more information on Invensys’ process automation businesses, please visit www.invensys.com/ps.
The Invensys Group (http://www.invensys.com/) is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.

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Invensys, SimSci-Esscor, HEXTRAN, DYNSIM, PRO/II, Foxboro, Triconex, Wonderware and Avantis are trademarks of Invensys plc, its subsidiaries and affiliated companies. Star Trek is a trademark of CBS Studios, Inc. All other brands and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

DALLAS, TEXAS, USA (INVENSYS CUSTOMER CONFERENCE) – December 6, 2006 – The SimSci-Esscor unit of Invensys and OLI Systems, Inc. have extended and enhanced a partnership for electrolytic process simulation. The agreement extends the twenty-seven-year alliance between the two companies, which integrates OLI’s electrolyte algorithms and databanks with SimSci-Esscor’s (http://www.simsci-esscor.com/) process simulators.

When combined with the OLI Electrolytes module, SimSci-Esscor’s widely used PRO/II steady state simulator provides a complete solution for designing and/or analyzing industrial processes that utilize or contain electrolytes. This simulation tool includes 40 pre-defined electrolytic models and more than 2,500 electrolyte chemical species to help engineers reduce electrolyte-based process downtime and decrease on-line testing, optimize process operation, reduce data gathering time, and generate custom models for unknown solution chemistries.

The agreement adds OLI’s latest capabilities for Mixed Solvent Electrolyte (MSE) modeling to the combined electrolytic process simulation solution. MSE extends the capabilities of PRO/II with the Electrolytes module by rigorously modeling water-organic-salt systems over a full range of concentrations in addition to modeling aqueous electrolytes ranging from dilute solutions to the fused salt limit.

The combined capabilities of PRO/II with the Electrolytes Module are suited to many industrial applications including natural gas sweetening, sour water treatment, gas scrubbing, caustic and strong acid applications, minerals processing, fertilizer manufacturing, scale formation, chlor-alkali processes, and many other processes requiring analysis and modeling for chemical equilibria between vapor, aqueous liquid, organic fluid, solid and solid-hydrate phases.

This new agreement includes provisions for product technology licensing, support, and training for Invensys and its customers.

About OLI Systems
OLI (http://www.olisystems.com/) is the world’s leading provider of technology and software for applications involving electrolytes and corrosion. OLI software is currently used by most of the largest oil and gas and chemical companies in the world. In addition, many U.S. government labs use OLI software. OLI’s technology development has been greatly accelerated and enhanced by several major grants from both the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

About Invensys
Invensys is the world leader in industrial asset performance management. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions and Performance Management services groups, Invensys’ automation businesses includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world’s largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills.For more information on Invensys’ process automation businesses, please visit www.invensys.com/ps.

For more information on Invensys’ groundbreaking InFusion enterprise control system, please visit www.infusionecs.com.

The Invensys Group (http://www.invensys.com/) is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.

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Invensys, SimSci-Esscor, PRO/II, PRO/II with Electrolytes, Foxboro, Triconex, Wonderware and Avantis are trademarks of Invensys plc, its subsidiaries and affiliated companies. All other brands and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.