BW Offshore Appoints New Board Member

BW Offshore announces that Ms. Clare Spottiswoode CBE has been appointed a Director of BW Offshore Limited with effect from 27 August 2013.

Ms. Spottiswoode has significant management and board level experience, and has since 1995 held non-executive positions in a range of large and small businesses spanning a number of industries including energy, technology and financial services. She has experience as a non-executive director of G4S plc, Tullow Oil plc and Magnox Limited. She was recently appointed non-executive director of Royal Bank of Canada’s London-headquartered European subsidiary.

Ms. Spottiswoode also served as Director General of Ofgas, the regulator of the gas industry in the United Kingdom from 1993 to 1998, and was instrumental in introducing competition into energy markets. A mathematician and an economist by training, Ms Spottiswoode began her career at HM Treasury, the United Kingdom’s economic and finance ministry.

The Board of Directors of BW Offshore Limited has by this increased from five to six Directors, and now consists of the following Directors:

Dr. Helmut Sohmen, Chairman

Mr. Ronny Johan Langeland, Vice Chairman

Mr. Christophe Pettenati-Auzière

Mr. Maarten R. Scholten

Mr. Andreas Sohmen-Pao

Ms. Clare Spottiswoode

Press Release, August 28, 2013