Board Member Appointment to Oxford Catalysts Group

Valiant Petroleum plc

PRESS RELEASE

2 October 2012

Board Member Appointment to Oxford Catalysts Group plc

Valiant Petroleum plc ("Valiant") notes the following announcement made today by Oxford Catalyst Group plc in relation to Valiant executive Director Sandy Shaw:

OXFORD CATALYSTS GROUP PLC

("Oxford Catalysts" or "the Group" or "the Company")

Board Appointment

Oxford Catalysts Group PLC, the leading technology innovator for clean synthetic fuels, is pleased to announce that it has appointed Sandy Shaw to the Board as a Non-executive Director with immediate effect.

Sandy has hands-on experience with over 30 years in the oil and gas industry, through senior positions held amongst executive teams while acting as group legal counsel and/or commercial director for a number of companies including Consort Resources, LASMO, Esso Petroleum, Marathon Oil and Mobil. She has extensive oil and gas M&A experience and has handled numerous material private equity subscriptions and led a pound sterling 200 million trade sale through to final negotiations. She has worked as a consultant to several oil and gas companies and to two UK law firms. Since August 2008, Sandy has been an executive Director Corporate and Commercial and Company Secretary of Valiant Petroleum, a company of which she was a founder and initially a Non-Executive Director.

ENDS

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