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Employment of Chief Financial Officer

Tórshavn, Faroe Islands 8th January 2010 - Atlantic Petroleum (OMX: FO-ATLA)
announces the employment of Mourits Joensen as Chief Financial Officer. Mourits
Joensen is 35 years of age and has an MSc in Economics from Copenhagen
University. Since 2007, Mr. Joensen has held the position as Finance and
Administration Manager of the Faroese Unemployment Service, and prior to that
he worked with Eik Bank and Hagstova Føroya (Statistics Faroe Islands). Mr.
Joensen will take up his new position with Atlantic Petroleum from 1st March
2010. 

Further Details
Further details can be obtained from Sigurð í Jákupsstovu, CEO, tel +298 350
100 (sigurdj@petroleum.fo). This announcement will be available, together with
other information about Atlantic Petroleum, on the Company's website:
www.petroleum.fo 

Announcement no. 1/2010		                            Issued 08-01-2010


P/F Atlantic Petroleum 		                        Telephone +298 350 100
Gongin 9		                                                 Fax +298 350 101
P.O. Box 1228		                               Website: www.petroleum.fo
FO-110 Tórshavn 		                          E-mail: petroleum@petroleum.fo
Faroe Islands