Appointment of Chairman

8 April 2010

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc ("Europa" or the "Company")

Appointment of Chairman

The Directors of Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc are pleased to announce that
Bill Adamson OBE, 61 has joined the company as non executive Chairman with
effect from yesterday.

Bill has had a longstanding career in the energy industry with BG Group Plc
managing all aspects of large gas businesses including CNG, power generation,
joint venture management, corporate governance and risk and safety management.
He was the Chairman and CEO of MetroGas S.A., Argentina's post-privatisation
leading gas utility, Vice President and General Manager of BG Group's UK
Downstream and most recently Managing Director BG India where he managed a
portfolio of Upstream and Downstream businesses. Bill is a Chartered Engineer
and holds an Honours Degree in Gas Engineering from the University of Salford.
Bill is a non-executive director of Composite Energy.

In connection with his appointment, Bill has been granted 250,000 options over
ordinary shares in the Company. All the options have an exercise price of 14p
and a 10 year life. One third of the options are exercisable after 18 months, a
further third after 30 months and the balance after 42 months. Bill is entitled
to a further 250,000 options to be granted in the fourth quarter of 2011 at the
market price at the date of issue.

Paul Barrett, Managing Director of Europa, commented "I am delighted to welcome
Bill to Europa. He has exceptional experience which will be of huge benefit to
the Company as we move forward on developing our assets in UK, Romania and
France. It is a measure of the potential of those assets that we have been able
to attract someone of Bill's stature to Europa. I look forward to working with
him on our exciting portfolio of projects. On behalf of the Board I would like
to thank Sir Michael Oliver for his huge contribution since Europa was admitted
to AIM in 2004. I wish him well in his retirement."

Current Directorships & Partnerships:

Composite Energy Ltd.


Previous Directorships & Partnerships held in the last five years:

Premier Power Ltd.

Mahanagar Gas Limited

Gujarat Gas Company Limited

BG India Exploration and Production Ltd.

Emerald Gas Ltd.

BG India

BG India Trading

Interconnector (UK) Limited

Seabank Power Limited

BG Gas Services Limited

Homepower Services Limited

Microgen Holdings UK Limited

Microgen Manufacturing Limited

Dragon LNG Group Limited

Dragon LNG Limited

Dragon LNG Holdings Limited

Save for the information disclosed above there is no other information required
to be disclosed under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules.

For further information, please contact:

Paul Barrett, Europa Oil & Gas [phone]

Lindsay Mair / Toby Gibbs, Astaire Securities [phone]