In a meeting in the Corporate Assembly of Statoil ASA 10 June Svein Rennemo was re-elected as chair and Grace Reksten Skaugen as deputy chair of the board of directors.

Bjørn Tore Godal, Maria Johanna Oudeman, Jakob Stausholm, Catherine Hughes and James Mulva were re-elected as shareholder representatives to the board. Øystein Løseth was elected as new shareholder representative to the board.

Øystein Løseth is a Norwegian citizen. Øystein Løseth has significant managerial experience in the energy sector, with particular expertise and experience from the European energy market. Since 2010, Løseth has been appointed as the CEO, and before that as a First Senior Executive Vice President since 2009, of Vattenfall AB, one of Europe's largest energy companies. In the period 2003 – 2009, Løseth worked for NUON, the Dutch energy company, first as Division Managing Director, then as a Managing Director and the CEO, from 2005 and 2008 respectively. Prior to this, Løseth was the Head of Production, Business Development and R&D of Statkraft from 2002 to 2003.

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