Directorate Change

Sterling Energy PLC
19 January 2007

                              STERLING ENERGY PLC

                         ('Sterling' or the 'Company')



                               Board Appointment



Sterling Energy plc, the AIM listed energy company with activities in the Gulf
of Mexico and Africa, today announces the appointment of Dr Richard Stabbins as
a non-executive director of the Company with immediate effect.



Panther Energy Limited, in which Dr Stabbins has an effective 84.4% interest,
currently has a beneficial holding of 4,474,272 ordinary shares of 1 pence each
('Ordinary Shares') representing 0.29 per cent. of the issued share capital of
the Company.



Dr Stabbins, aged 63, has worked in number of senior roles within in the oil and
gas industry over the last 38 years. After graduating with a PhD in Geology from
University College, London, he worked for the government of Saskatchewan in
Canada, the Murphy Eastern Oil Company and Ranger Oil before joining Goal
Petroleum in 1981 where he worked for 15 years. From 1989-1996, Dr. Stabbins was
Goal's Exploration Director.



Following Goal's acquisition by Talisman in 1996, Dr. Stabbins set up his own
oil & gas consultancy, Panther Energy Ltd. In 1997, he acquired a majority stake
in another consultancy Montrose Industries Ltd which in turn took over Panther
in 2005. Panther and Montrose's clients over the past ten years include AmSOL,
Eclipse Energy, LEPCO and Fusion Oil & Gas.



Commenting today, Harry Wilson, Chief Executive of Sterling Energy Plc,
commented:



'I am delighted that Dick Stabbins is joining Sterling. I know Dick well from
his days with Ranger and I am confident that he will be an excellent addition to
the Board where we shall be making full use of his geological knowledge and
experience.'


Enquiries

Sterling Energy                                                 (01582 462 121)
Harry Wilson
Graeme Thomson

Citigate Dewe Rogerson                                          (020 7638 9571)
Media enquiries: Martin Jackson / George Cazenove
Analyst enquiries: Nina Soon





Save for the declarations below there are no updated disclosures to be made in
respect of the appointment of Dr Stabbins under rule 17 and under Schedule 2
paragraph (g) of the AIM rules.



Current Directorships
Company                                           Date of Appointment
Panther Energy Limited                              12 September 1996
Montrose Industries Limited                             17 March 1997
Bloomsbury DSP Limited                                  12 April 2005
Bonadark Limited                                        13 April 2005



Previous Directorships
Company                                           Date of Resignation
Geological Society of London                               7 May 2003
Fusion Oil & Gas NL                                    7 January 2004
Fusion Oil & Gas plc                                   7 January 2004
Brookfield Mansions Limited                          10 December 2003
Serica Energy (UK) Limited                           13 February 2004
London Lesbian & Gay Switchboard                      23 October 2005
ARKEX Limited                                           4 August 2005
EnCore Oil plc                                           3 March 2006



Dr Stabbins was previously a director of Opengreen Limited ('Opengreen') which
was put into voluntary liquidation by Opengreen's directors on the sale of its
only asset (an apartment) in July 1992. Opengreen had no outstanding creditors.






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