Bengal Energy Ltd. Meeting to be held on September 28, 2021, the board of directors announced Mr. Ian J. Towers and Mr. Peter D. Gaffney have each provided notice to Bengal that they will not stand for re-election as a director at the Meeting and will retire as non-executive members of the Board following the Meeting. Mr. Towers joined the Board in 2005 and has served as Chairman of the Board since October 29, 2010. Mr. Gaffney joined the Board in 2011 and has been Chair of Reserves Committee of the Board since January 30, 2011. Following his retirement from the Board, Mr. Gaffney will continue to remain associated with Bengal by providing consulting advisory services to the Company in respect of reserves reporting, new ventures and business development matters, for an initial term of 12 months. Mr. Lansom has significant expertise in subsurface engineering, asset valuation, exploration through to field development planning and commercial and corporate finance. He has held senior roles, including Chief Petroleum Engineer at Origin Energy and Executive Director - Operations, at Eastern Star Gas during the period from 2008 to 2011 where Mr. Lansom had overall engineering responsibility for the exploration and pilot development of the company's coal seam gas assets in New South Wales, with that company reporting independently certified Proven, Probable, and Possible Reserves of over 2.7 trillion cubic feet, and growing to a AUD 900 million market capitalization, by 2011. Most recently, for a period of 8 years, Mr. Lansom was the Managing Director of ASX-listed Galilee Energy and oversaw its significant growth as that company sought to grow from explorer to a significant new gas supplier in the Eastern Australia gas market.