The following is being distributed at the request of the Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board

Public Information Coordinator appointed at C-NOPB

Hal Stanley, chairman of the Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board, is pleased to announce the appointment of Simone Keough, APR, as the C-NOPB�s Public Information Coordinator. The appointment is effective Monday, June 9, 2003.

Ms. Keough has 13 years� experience in media, government, not-for-profit, and private sector public relations practice in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The new Public Information Coordinator may be reached at (709) 778-1400, by fax at (709) 778-1473, or e-mail, skeough@cnopb.nf.ca

2003 06 09                                        12:15 p.m.