Directorate Change

26 May 2011

Trap Oil Group plc

 ("Trapoil" or the "Company")

Directorate Changes

Trapoil (AIM: TRAP), the independent oil and gas exploration and appraisal company focused on the UK Continental Shelf region of the North Sea, announces the following changes to its board of directors (the "Board") and senior management.

Martin David, currently Exploration Manager of the Company, has been appointed as Technical Director with immediate effect, replacing Dr Peter Smith who has retired from the Company also with immediate effect.

Mr David has over 37 years' experience in the oil industry, with over 10 years' of experience specifically in the North Sea, including the technical, operational, financial and commercial management of operated and non-operated exploration portfolios, as well as the exploration of new ventures which have led to discoveries in the United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands. Mr David was previously, from 2000 to 2010, Suncor Energy Incorporated's Exploration Director for North West Europe and, prior to that, he worked for numerous oil companies across Europe including Veba Oil & Gas UK Limited, Deminex UK Oil & Gas Limited and Unocal UK Limited. Mr David has chaired the UK Offshore Operators Association Exploration Committee and has been Secretary of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain. He holds a BSc degree in Geology from Queen Mary College, University of London.

Dr Smith has agreed to provide consultancy services to the Trapoil group on exploration matters, including the DECC's 27th Licensing Round due to take place in the first quarter of 2012.

In addition, the Company announces that David Kemp, currently a Non-Executive Director of the Company, will assume the role of Finance Director with effect from 1 July 2011, replacing John Church who will step down from the Board on the same date. Mr Church will however remain as a significant member of the Company's executive management team and will assume the position of Financial Controller as well as continuing to act as Company Secretary. Mr Kemp is a Chartered Accountant with approximately 20 years' experience in the oil and gas industry. He was, until recently, Vice President-Finance North Sea and Canada of Technip SA, and was formerly Head of Finance-Europe for the Amerada Hess Corporation. He previously led the oil and gas E&P team at the energy industry focused investment bank, Simmons & Company International, working on asset acquisitions and divestments, fund raisings and other corporate transactions. He currently serves on the board of a number of private companies, holds an MA in Accountancy from the University of Aberdeen and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

As part of other management reorganisation, Trapoil is also pleased to announce that James Storey has been appointed as Exploration Manager with immediate effect.

Mark Groves Gidney, Chief Executive Officer of Trapoil, commented:

"We are delighted to welcome Martin to the Board as Technical Director, David as an Executive and James as a key member of the Senior Management team. All three individuals will provide valuable assistance with the Group's further growth and development. On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Peter for his considerable contribution to the Group and assistance with its recent successful flotation. I am pleased that Peter will continue to provide consultancy services as required in the near future and wish him well in his retirement."

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Additional information on the new director appointment:

Mr Martin Jeremy David, aged 58, is a director or partner, or has been a director or partner during the previous five years, of the following entities:

Mr David is currently interested in 440,584 ordinary shares of one penny each in the share capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), representing approximately 0.24 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital. Mr David also holds options over a further 581,395 Ordinary Shares, exercisable, in whole or in part, at any time up to 13 March 2021, being ten years from the date of grant, at an exercise price of 43 pence per share. Mr David's options shall vest in three equal tranches on 13 March 2012, 13 March 2013 and 13 March 2014, being the first, second and third anniversaries of the date of grant respectively, subject to the completion of certain specified performance conditions.

There is no other information that is required to be disclosed under paragraph (g) of Schedule Two of the AIM Rules for Companies of the London Stock Exchange.

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