Canadian Natural Resources Limited has appointed Timothy W. Faithfull, Christopher L. Fong and Wilfred A. Gobert to the Board of Directors of the Company.

Mr. Faithfull had a 36 year career in various senior positions with Royal Dutch/Shell, most recently as President and CEO of Shell Canada Limited, retiring in 2003. He obtained his MA Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Keble College, Oxford and attended the Senior Executive Programme at the London Business School. Mr. Faithfull serves as a director on two other boards of senior publicly traded Canadian corporations, a FTSE 100 UK public company, sits on a number of not-for profit boards and is a Distinguished Friend of the London Business School.

Mr. Fong, after 28 years with a Canadian chartered bank, retired in 2009 as Global Head, Corporate Banking, Energy, with RBC Capital Markets. In his energy career of over 35 years, he developed a strategic and operational perspective of the energy industry, both in Canada and abroad. Mr. Fong has a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering and is a professional engineer in the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APPEGA). He is a director of two other publicly traded companies and sits on a number of not-for-profit boards.

Mr. Gobert, spent 33 years as a securities industry financial analyst, primarily as an analyst on the petroleum industry with Peters & Co. Limited where he was Director, Research before becoming Vice-Chairman in 2002 serving on its Board of Directors and Executive Committee until his retirement in May 2006. Mr. Gobert holds a CFA designation and has an MBA and B. Sc (Honours) degree. He currently serves on three other publicly traded company boards and sits on a number of not-for-profit boards and is Senior Fellow, Energy Studies, Centre for Energy Policy Studies with The Fraser Institute.

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