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Press Release – March 2007

Xodus opens Australia office
One of the fastest growing oil and gas consultancies has opened its first overseas office in Perth, Australia. Xodus Group unveiled plans to open the office in January and has since secured premises on St. Georges Terrace in the city’s CBD (central business district), recruited over fifteen staff and is working on a six figure sum contract for a major Australian gas-condensate deepwater project.

The rapidly growing engineering consultancy expects to be employing 40 consultants and engineers by the end of the first year of trading.

The office is led by local Directors Matthew Rawlings, Grant Veroba and Stuart Barr. Between them they have over 60 years experience in the oil and gas industry, with over 15 years of consultancy operational management and bring an unrivalled knowledge of the oil and gas consultancy business and the Australian/Asian market to Xodus.

Director Matthew Rawlings announced “We have been exceptionally pleased with the start up of the Perth operation, the recruitment campaign has been very successful and we have assembled a world class consulting core from which to grow. Our independent and uniquely integrated offering of oil and gas consulting across the asset life cycle, subsea and pipelines, technical safety, environment and risk and technology has been received with interest by major clients in Perth.”

Strategically it is anticipated that the Perth operation will become the centre of excellence for development planning of Greenfield opportunities.

Director Colin Manson explains: “When we launched in Aberdeen just over a year ago, we explored the opportunities in Moscow, Kuala Lumpur and Houston. However, the best strategic overseas move for us initially is Western Australia where there are major greenfield development opportunities and where we can also target the buoyant Asia Pacific market, which has huge potential for our experience and expertise”.

The Aberdeen office recently announced that it had exceeded its financial objectives, allowing it to embark on its international growth plans earlier than expected. The international expansion has been entirely self funded.

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