Stavanger, Norway – 08 May 2009

Kadme AS is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Kjell-Arne Bjerkhaug to its Board of Directors effective 20 April 2009. The appointment of Mr. Bjerkhaug increases the number of directors from three to four.

Mr. Bjerkhaug is presently VP of Sales and Marketing of CGGVeritas/Seabed. He also serves on the Board of Directors of ECIM (the Expert Center for Information Management), a foundation established by the industry to promote Information Management profession, competence and best practices within the E&P Industry.

Mr. Bjerkhaug has many years experience with Seismic data processing, having covered Senior roles with Geco (later Geco-Prakla), where he was also the first to process seismic 3D data in Norway in 1979. In his period with Geco-Prakla he was for four years in charge of several business lines in the Far East/Middle East and Australia.
In 1994 he was appointed Managing Director for PetroData AS, implementing the first multi-client National DataBank for Petroleum data and operating part of the National Petroleum Dataset for Norway (DISKOS). Before joining CGGVeritas, Mr. Bjerkhaug was Managing Director for Schlumberger Infocenter Norge AS (SINAS), the company that operated the DISKOS data repository in Norway from 2003 to 2008.
Mr Bjerkhaug has substantial national and international experience in providing services to the global E&P community.

Contacts:
Gianluca Monachese, Managing Director