Granting of Options

BowLeven Plc
26 October 2005

26 October 2005

                   BowLeven Plc ('the Company' or 'BowLeven')

                                Grant of Options



On 26 October 2005 the Board of BowLeven granted options over a total of 411,735
ordinary shares in the Company to Directors and other employees of the Company.
These options are being granted pursuant to the BowLeven Plc Employee Share
Option Scheme (the 'Scheme') for Approved Options and Unapproved Options.
Following shareholder approval at the Company's EGM held on 12 October 2005,
certain amendments to the original details of the Scheme, as set out in the
admission document of 7 December 2004, were made and these amendments are set
out in the Company's announcement on 19 September 2005, regarding the EGM.



These grants include awards to Directors of the Company as detailed below:


Name              Position                   Number of options  Exercise     Vesting period
                                             granted            price


Robert Walvis     Senior Non-executive       37,735             530.0p       Between 26 October 2007 and  25
                                                                             October 2015
                  Director and Deputy        (Unapproved
                  Chairman                    Options)

John Morrow       Technical Director         266,837            530.0p       Between 26 October 2007 and  25
                                                                             October 2015
                                             (Unapproved
                                             Options)

John Morrow       Technical Director         8,163              367.5p       Between 26 October 2008 and  25
                                                                             October 2015
                                             (Approved
                                             Options)

There is no performance condition applied to either the Approved Options or the
Unapproved Options.


For further information contact:

Philip Rhind, Chief Executive, BowLeven Plc            0131 260 5100
Adam Westcott, Noble & Company Limited                 0131 225 9677
Neil Bennett, Maitland                                 020 7379 5151




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