Stolt Offshore S.A.                                    [Graphic omitted]

NEWS RELEASE

            Stolt Offshore S.A. Awarded $40 million in New Contracts
                      in Northern Europe and Canada Region

London, England - July 13, 2005 - Stolt Offshore S.A. (NasdaqNM: SOSA; Oslo
Stock Exchange: STO), today announced it has been awarded two contracts by
Bluewater Industries, together totalling $40 million for installation work on
two fields in the Southern North Sea on behalf of ATP Oil & Gas.

The first of these, valued at approximately $23 million, is for the installation
of some 86 kilometres of rigid production and service pipelines between the
Garrow, Kilmar and Trent platforms as part of the Tors development. The second
contract, valued at approximately $17 million, is for the tie-back of the L6
subsea well to the G17 platform in the Dutch sector of the North Sea by the
installation of some 40 kilometres of rigid pipeline and well control umbilical.
Installation of both projects takes place this year.

Oyvind Mikaelsen, Vice President Northern Europe and Canada Region, said "We are
delighted with this award which reflects our long term relationship with ATP and
Bluewater through which we are able to package fast track projects of this type.
This new type of relationship with our customers is evidence of the constructive
working relationship that we have developed with some of the smaller oil
companies."

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Stolt Offshore is a leading offshore contractor to the oil and gas industry,
specialising in technologically sophisticated deepwater engineering, flowline
and pipeline lay, construction, inspection and maintenance services. The Company
operates in Europe, the Middle East, West Africa, Asia Pacific, and the Americas
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Contacts:
Deborah Keedy / Julian Thomson
Stolt Offshore S.A.
UK +44 1932 773767 or +44 1932 773764
US  +1 877 603 0267 (toll free)
deborah.keedy@stoltoffshore.com
julian.thomson@stoltoffshore.com

Patrick Handley (UK) / Ellen Gonda (US)
Brunswick Group
UK +44 207 404 5959
US +1 212 333 3810
phandley@brunswickgroup.com
egonda@brunswickgroup.com

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