Aker ASA: Mandatory notification of trade

As fulfillment of existing rights under the bonus program for employees in Aker
ASA ("Aker"), the following primary insiders have received bonus shares. The
shares have a lock-in period of three years. Upon allocation, the value of the
shares was set to NOK 357.80. This corresponds to the three-day average, volume-
weighted price of Aker's share starting Monday 12 March 2018, to which a 20 per
cent discount was applied.

The bonus shares were distributed as follows:

+------------------+-----------------------+---------------+-------------------+
|Employee |Role |No. of bonus |No. of shares |
| | |shares |following |
| | |  |allocation |
+------------------+-----------------------+---------------+-------------------+
|Frank O. Reite |Chief Financial Officer|2 015 |66 796* |
+------------------+-----------------------+---------------+-------------------+
|Arild Støren Frick|General Counsel |1 186 |7 600** |
+------------------+-----------------------+---------------+-------------------+
|Audun Stensvold |Investment Director |1 008 |9 639 |
+------------------+-----------------------+---------------+-------------------+
|Atle Kigen |Head of Communications |434 |9 051 |
+------------------+-----------------------+---------------+-------------------+
|Ove Andre Taklo |Corporate Controller |423 |4 080 |
+------------------+-----------------------+---------------+-------------------+
|Per Kristian Reppe|Investment Manager & |361 |1 335 |
| |Head of Investor | | |
| |Relations | | |
+------------------+-----------------------+---------------+-------------------+
|Laila Hop |Paralegal |21 |248 |
+------------------+-----------------------+---------------+-------------------+

* Owned through Fausken Invest AS.
** Owned through Elichapet AS.

The allocated bonus shares are drawn from the Company's holdings of own shares.
Following the allocation, the Company will hold a total of 15 733 own shares.

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For further information, please contact:

Investors:
Per Kristian Reppe, Investment Manager & Head of Investor Relations
Phone: +47 24 13 00 67
Mobile: +47 900 33 203

Media:
Atle Kigen, Head of Communications
Phone: +47 24 13 00 08
Mobile: +47 907 84 878

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section
5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.