Petroceltic International announce that Mr Ian Craig has been appointed as a non-executive director of the Company, with immediate effect.

Ian Craig (61) is a Civil Engineer with over 30 years of operational, technical and commercial experience in upstream oil and gas development and production. He began his oil industry career with BP as a sub-sea engineer in the UK North Sea, subsequently progressing through a number of senior roles before being appointed to the board of Enterprise Oil plc as Technical Director from 2000 until its acquisition by Shell in 2002. In 2004 he was appointed CEO of the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company, on behalf of the joint venture consortium of Gazprom, Shell, Mitsui and Mitsubishi where he was responsible for the development of over 4 Billion boe of reserves, from reservoir to consumer, including LNG processing, marketing, and shipping. Following on from this role, Ian served as EVP of Sub Saharan Africa for Shell, where he was responsible for the majority of the Shell Group's West African reserves until his retirement in April 2013.

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