Nautilus Minerals Inc. - Technical Alliances

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Nautilus has brought together an extensive group of engineering and technology collaborators from the offshore oil & gas and the metals & minerals sectors - the two industry sectors fundamental to the mining of Seafloor Massive Sulphides. Nautilus is transferring current technology from these sectors to the new deep ocean mining industry. In order to do this, Nautilus has formed strong technical alliances with companies who are at the forefront of their industry and represent best-in-class technology.

Soil Machine Dynamics ("SMD") of the UK was awarded the contract to build the two remote operated subsea mining tools ("SMTs") for Nautilus. SMD is one of the world's leading subsea engineering companies specialising in the design and manufacture of remotely operated vehicle ("ROV") systems.

www.smd.co.uk

Technip, an integrated group providing engineering, technologies and construction services to the oil/gas and petrochemical industry worldwide was awarded the contract for engineering and procurement of Nautilus's Solwara 1 riser and lifting system ("RALS"). With a workforce of 22,000 people worldwide, and annual revenues of almost 7 billion euros, Technip ranks among the 5 major players in full-service engineering and construction services in the field of hydrocarbons and petrochemicals.

www.technip.com

North Sea Shipping AS North Sea Shipping AS ("North Sea Shipping") entered into a binding agreement with Nautilus to provide a specialist Mining Support Vessel ("MSV") . They will provide a 160m dynamically positioned specialist new build ship, on a five year charter basis with options to extend for five years. North Sea Shipping is a leading ship owner based outside Bergen on the west coast of Norway. This family owned business has been operating ocean going vessels for several generations and support vessels in the oil and gas industry since 1980. Today North Sea Shipping is actively involved in sixteen vessels operating in the oil and gas sector as well as the cable laying business.

www.northsea.no

Canyon Offshore Inc ("Canyon", part of Helix Energy Solutions) in 2007 and 2008 was awarded contracts for provision of marine services and "state of the art" ROV drilling equipment to support the Nautilus exploration program. Canyon provides ROV systems and skilled offshore teams for critical-path deepwater construction and specialty marine contracting projects.

www.helixesg.com/canyon/index.html

Ocean Floor Geophysics Inc: Nautilus, together with its shareholder Teck Cominco Limited, partnered with the Vancouver based Ocean Floor Geophysics Inc. to develop, deploy and protect the intellectual property associated with new deep-ocean electromagnetic technology.

Perry Slingsby Systems: Based in UK and USA, Perry Slingsby Systems is the world leader in manufacture of deep ocean remote operated vehicles (ROV) for the oil/gas and telecommunications industries. Perry designed and built the 20m ROV drills used in the 2007 drilling program on Solwara 1.

www.perryslingsbysystems.com