Directorate Change

Xtract Energy plc
04 January 2007

4 January 2007                                                          AIM: XTR

                               XTRACT ENERGY PLC

                          ('Xtract' or the 'Company')

                                 Board changes

Xtract announces that John Conlon has been appointed to the board of the Company
with effect from 4 January 2007. Mr Conlon is also a director of Cambrian Mining
plc, Xtract's parent company. Xtract also announces that Carl Layden has
resigned as a director of the Company with effect from 1 January 2007, but
remains a director of Xtract's shale oil subsidiary, Xtract Oil Limited, and a
consultant to the Company.

'I would like to take this opportunity to thank Carl for his considerable
contribution to the Company as a board member and look forward to continuing to
work with him.  I am pleased that John Conlon has agreed to join the Board of
Xtract. I believe that the Company will benefit greatly from his experience',
said Xtract's CEO, John Newton.

Enquiries:

Xtract
John Newton 020 7409 0890
Director

John Conlon's details are as follows:

Name:                        John Joseph Conlon

Age:                         67

Current directorships:       Cambrian Mining plc
                             Coal International plc
                             Energybuild Group plc
                             Western Canadian Coal Corporation (Canada)

Past directorships           Webcon Equipment Inc (Canada)
(last 5 years)

About Xtract Energy Plc

Xtract's prime assets are its interest in shale oil deposits at Julia Creek in
Queensland, Australia and a joint venture with the Australian research group,
CSIRO, to develop a process for extracting oil from shale deposits.  The 
initial validation tests, comprising small scale batch extractions of oil from
the shale, have demonstrated that recovery from Xtract's Julia Creek shales in
Queensland, Australia, would be in the order of 150 litres of light crude oil
per tonne of shale.  Earlier conventional retorting experiments indicated that
the conversion of kerogen to oil yielded about 74 litres of oil per ton of
shale.

Applying this rate of yield increase to the yields of 50 - 65 litres per tonne
used earlier this year in Xtract's AIM admission document in relation to certain
of Xtract's Julia Creek leases results in estimated in-situ shale oil resources
of over 1.6 billion barrels of oil.

Other energy assets held by Xtract are:

   • Approximately 65.5% of Cambrian Oil and Gas Plc ('COIL') which is
    developing oil and gas assets in the Kyrgyz Republic. COIL also owns 25% of
    the issued share capital of ASX listed Methanol Australia Ltd ('MEO'). MEO
    is focused on developing a gas-to-liquids project in the Timor Sea,
    approximately 275 km northwest of Darwin, Australia, in an area known as
    Tassie Shoal. It has secured Australian Commonwealth Government
    environmental approvals for two large scale (1.8 mtpa) methanol plants (50%
    interest) and a 3 mtpa LNG plant (100%), which is the only new Australia LNG
    project to receive its Commonwealth Government environmental approvals.

   • Approximately 19.1% of Wasabi Energy Limited which has rights to the
    Kallina power technology, uranium exploration interests in the Northern
    Territory, Australia, interests in the newly-formed Evolution Energy joint
    venture to produce bio-diesel fuel in Australia and in a coal deposit in
    Canada.

   • Approximately 18.2% of Aviva Corporation Limited with promising thermal
    coal deposits in the mid-west of Western Australia.


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