Orion Marine Group Announces a Contract Award of Approximately $16 Million

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HOUSTON, May 12, 2009 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- OMGI | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Orion Marine Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OMGI) (the "Company"), a leading heavy civil marine contractor serving the infrastructure sector, today announced a contract award of approximately $16 million.

Orion Marine Group's wholly owned subsidiary, Misener Marine Construction, Inc. was recently awarded a contract by a private customer to design and build a new container terminal in the Caribbean. The project consists of constructing a new 300 meter terminal, including roll on and roll off ramps, and a separate 50 meter tug berth. The dock will be supported by a steel sheet pile tie back wall and be protected by a new fendering system.

"This award highlights the continued focus on infrastructure improvements in our market areas," said Jim Rose, Orion Marine Group's Executive Vice President, Atlantic and Caribbean. "We are excited about this opportunity in the Caribbean and look forward to helping develop this terminal."

Onsite construction of the project is expected to commence during the third quarter of 2009 and last approximately 12 months.

About Orion Marine Group

Orion Marine Group, Inc. provides a broad range of marine construction and specialty services on, over and under the water along the Gulf Coast, the Atlantic Seaboard and the Caribbean Basin and acts as a single source turn-key solution for its customers' marine contracting needs. Its heavy civil marine construction services include marine transportation facility construction, marine pipeline construction, marine environmental structures, dredging, and specialty services. Its specialty services include salvage, demolition, diving, surveying, towing and underwater inspection, excavation and repair. The Company is headquartered in Houston, Texas and has a 75-year legacy of successful operations.

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Forward-Looking Statements

The matters discussed in this press release may constitute or include projections or other forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the provisions of which the Company is availing itself. Certain forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, such as 'believes', 'expects', 'may', 'will', 'could', 'should', 'seeks', 'approximately', 'intends', 'plans', 'estimates', or 'anticipates', or the negative thereof or other comparable terminology, or by discussions of strategy, plans, objectives, intentions, estimates, forecasts, assumptions, or goals. In particular, statements regarding future operations or results, including those set forth in this press release (including those under "Outlook" above), and any other statement, express or implied, concerning future operating results or the future generation of or ability to generate revenues, income, net income, profit, EBITDA, EBITDA margin, or cash flow, including to service debt, and including any estimates, forecasts or assumptions regarding future revenues or revenue growth, are forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements also include estimated project start dates, expected project duration, estimated completion dates, anticipated revenues, and contract options which may or may not be awarded in the future, including the matters set forth above in this press release. Forward looking statements involve risks, including those associated with the Company's fixed price contracts, unforeseen productivity delays that may alter the final profitability of the contract, cancellation of the contract by the customer for unforeseen reasons, delays or decreases in funding by the customer, and any potential contract options which may or may not be awarded in the future, and are the sole discretion of award by the customer. Past performance is not necessarily an indicator of future results. In light of these and other uncertainties, the inclusion of forward-looking statements in this press release should not be regarded as a representation by the Company that the Company's plans, estimates, forecasts, goals, intentions, or objectives will be achieved or realized. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release whether as a result of new developments or otherwise.

Please refer to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on March 19, 2008, which is available on its website at www.orionmarinegroup.com or at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, for additional and more detailed discussion of risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations, estimates or forecasts.

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SOURCE: Orion Marine Group, Inc.

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          Chris DeAlmeida, Director of Investor Relations
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