Appointment Anne Drinkwater as Non-Executive Director

Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) is pleased to announce the appointment of Anne Drinkwater as a Non-executive Director with effect from 25 July 2012. Anne joins Tullow after a long and successful career with BP. Anne held a number of senior business and operations positions, most recently as President and CEO of BP Canada from 2009 to 2012. Other positions within BP included Group Vice President managing non-technical risk, President of BP Indonesia and Managing Director of BP Norway.

Anne has a strong commercial and business development background from within the oil & gas sector and brings significant expertise in governance and stakeholder management to Tullow. Anne is currently a Non-executive Director of engineering company, Aker Solutions ASA in Norway.

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