Fabio Barbosa appointed to BG Group Board

14 March 2011

Fabio Barbosa appointed to BG Group Board as Chief Financial Officer

BG Group today announced that Fabio Barbosa has been appointed to the Board as an Executive Director and as Chief Financial Officer, effective 31 March 2011.

Fabio Barbosa joined BG Group in December 2010*. He was until June 2010 the Chief Financial Officer at the Brazilian mining company Vale S.A. ("Vale"), one of the largest private sector companies in Latin America and one of the largest metals and mining companies in the world by market capitalisation. From April 2009 until December 2010, he was also a director of BM&FBOVESPA S.A. ("BM&FBOVESPA"), the Brazilian Securities, Commodities and Futures Exchange.

Prior to joining Vale in 2002, Fabio Barbosa spent seven years in the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, rising to the role of National Treasury Secretary. He is a former adviser to one of the Executive Directors of the World Bank.

Fabio Barbosa succeeds Ashley Almanza, who stands down from the Board on 31 March 2011.

Listing Rule 9.6.13

In accordance with paragraph 9.6.13 (1) of the Listing Rules of the United Kingdom Listing Authority (the "Listing Rules"), BG Group confirms that, other than as noted above, Fabio Barbosa has held no directorships in publicly quoted companies in the past five years.

In accordance with paragraphs 9.6.13 (2) - (6) of the Listing Rules, BG Group confirms that Fabio Barbosa:

(a) does not have any unspent convictions in relation to indictable offences; 

(b) was not an executive director of any company which was the subject of any receiverships, compulsory liquidations, creditors voluntary liquidations, administrations, company voluntary arrangements or any composition or arrangement with its creditors generally or any class of its creditors at the time of, or within the 12 months preceding, such events; 

(c) was not a partner of any partnership which was the subject of any compulsory liquidations, administrations or partnership voluntary arrangements at the time of, or within the 12 months preceding, such events;

(d) has not held or owned (either in his own right or through any partnership of which he was a partner at the time of, or within the 12 months preceding, the receiverships) any asset which has been the subject of receivership; and

(e) has not been the subject of any public criticisms by statutory or regulatory authorities (including designated professional bodies), other than as noted below, and has never been disqualified by a court from acting as a director of a company or from acting in the management or conduct of the affairs of any company. In July 2007, the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários - "CVM") imposed an administrative fine of Brazilian Reais 100 000 (approximately $60 000) on Fabio Barbosa in his capacity as Executive Director of Investor Relations of Vale. The fine was imposed for an alleged failure by Vale in 2006 to issue a holding announcement following a press report that negotiations were taking place regarding the prospective sale of part of Vale's minority equity interest in a Brazilian company. The CVM ruling is disputed and is subject to an ongoing appeal. No date has yet been set for the appeal hearing. As noted above, in 2009 Mr Barbosa was appointed as a director of BM&FBOVESPA.

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Notes to Editors:

* For further details, see:

http://www.bg-group.com/MediaCentre/PressArchive/2010/Pages/21Dec2010.aspx

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