Genel Energy plc Appoints David McManus as Chair of the Reserves Committee

Genel Energy Plc is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. The Company is principally engaged in the business of the exploration, development and production of natural resources. The Company operates through two segments: Production and Pre-production. The production segment is comprised of the producing fields on the Tawke PSC (Tawke and Peshkabir), the Taq Taq PSC (Taq Taq) and the Sarta PSC (Sarta) which are located in the KRI and make sales predominantly to the KRG. The Taq Taq license area is located 60 kilometers (km) northeast of the Kirkuk oil field. The pre-production segment assets consist of exploration opportunities in Somaliland and Morocco. Somaliland is a highly prospective, onshore exploration province, and Genel is targeting resources of over two billion barrels of oil. The Sidi Moussa license, offshore Morocco, contains an estimated 750 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMBOE) of unrisked resources.