Pacific Drilling S.A. announced that its shareholders have recently appointed two new independent members of the company's Board of Directors, increasing the size of the Board to nine members.

Mr. Robert Schwed is a partner in Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP and has approximately 40 years of corporate finance transactions experience. He is also an adjunct professor at George Washington University School of Law, where he teaches a course in venture capital law.

Mr. Sami Iskander is the Executive Vice President, Operations at BG Group. Prior to joining BG Group, Mr. Iskander spent his career with Schlumberger, where he fulfilled a number of key leadership roles, with assignments in Latin America, the USA, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, culminating in his role as President, Drilling and Measurements.

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