European Companies Take Honors at 2009 Platts Global Energy Awards

NEW YORK, December 7 - Three of Europe's leading energy companies took top honors for technology
innovation, strategic investments, and engineering prowess in the 2009 Platts
Global Energy Awards announced last night at a gala ceremony and dinner in
New York.

Spain's international oil and gas giant Repsol won the Commercial
Technology of the Year award for the ground-breaking seismic technology of
its Kaleidoscope Project which employs advanced computerized techniques to
efficiently and cost-effectively reveal previously invisible oil and gas
deposits. The technology allows faster processing of seismic data, cutting
down on exploration time and costs, and has enabled Repsol to make 13 new
discoveries just this year.

Italy's Enel SpA was the hands-down winner of the Deal of the Year Award
for the successful completion of its acquisition of Endesa, Spain's largest
power company. The panel of judges attributed the closing of this complex and
contentious deal to the negotiating skills, persuasive power and resolve of
Enel's CEO Fulvio Conti. As a result of the acquisition, Enel dramatically
expanded its global presence and now has operations in 23 countries serving
60.5 million power and gas customers.

Shell's pioneering Perdido project in the Gulf of Mexico won the ENR
Energy Construction Project of the Year, an award given by McGraw-Hill
Construction, Platts' sister company and the publisher of Engineering
News-Record. The Perdido project is the world's deepest direct
vertical-access spar. Moored at a water depth of some 2,380 meters, it will
act as a hub for the development of three fields, gathering, processing, and
exporting oil and gas production from within a 48-kilometer radius.

Platts Global Energy Awards honor outstanding achievement in the energy
industry, recognizing corporate and individual accomplishments, innovation
and entrepreneurship. The industry's most prestigious annual awards program,
now in its 11th year, is hosted by Platts, the world's leading energy and
metals information provider, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this
year.

The winners in a total of 18 award categories were chosen by an
independent international panel of judges from a record number of nominations
from 22 countries. The winning companies came from India, Italy, the
Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, and the United States.

For complete awards results, including the judges' rationale, please go
to Platts Global Energy Awards:

    - Website -- geaweb.platts.com/GEAWeb/Homepage.do
    - Media kit -- platts.com/MediaKits.aspx?xmlFile=mediaGEA.xml

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Kathleen Tanzy, +1-212-904-2860, kathleen_tanzy at platts.com