Beach Energy : New Appointment to Board

Beach Energy Limited

ABN 20 007 617 969

25 Conyngham St, Glenside 5065, South Australia

GPO Box 175, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

T: +61 8 8338 2833

F: +61 8 8338 2336beachenergy.com.auinfo@beachenergy.com.au

ASX release

22 February 2018

Ref: 014/18

Appointment of non-executive director

Beach Energy Ltd (ASX: BPT) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Joycelyn Morton as an independent non-executive director, with effect from 21 February 2018. She has also been appointed chair of the Audit Committee.

Ms Morton has an extensive business and accounting background with over 38 years of accounting and finance experience, including global leadership roles in Australia and internationally within the Shell Group of companies. A biography is included below.

The Board welcomes Ms Morton and looks forward to her contribution to the company.

For further information contact the following on +61 8 8338 2833:

BEc, FCA, FCPA, FIPA, FCIS, FAICD

Ms Morton has an extensive financial background with particular expertise in taxation matters. She enjoyed a long and successful executive career, initially with Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC), followed by senior management roles with Woolworths Limited and global leadership roles in Australia and internationally within the Shell Group of companies, including Vice President, Accounting Services, based in the Netherlands. She has also held a variety of government and international advisory positions.

Her other current ASX listed board positions are Argo Investments Limited, Argo Global Listed Infrastructure Limited, InvoCare Limited and Thorn Group Limited. She is also a non-executive director of ASC Pty Ltd and Snowy Hydro Limited. She has valuable board experience across a range of industries, including previous roles as a non-executive director and Chair of Noni B Limited and a non-executive director of Crane Group Limited and Count Financial Limited.

She holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Sydney and whilst with Shell International completed a senior executive program at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.

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Appendix 3X

Initial Director's Interest Notice

Rule 3.19A.1

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Initial Director's Interest Notice

Information or documents not available now must be given to ASX as soon as available. Information and documents given to ASX become ASX's property and may be made public.

Introduced 30/9/2001.

Name of entityBeach Energy LimitedABN 20 007 617 969

We (the entity) give ASX the following information under listing rule 3.19A.1 and as agent for the director for the purposes of section 205G of the Corporations Act.

Part 1 - Director's relevant interests in securities of which the director is the registered holder

In the case of a trust, this includes interests in the trust made available by the responsible entity of the trust

Note: In the case of a company, interests which come within paragraph (i) of the definition of "notifiable interest of a director" should be disclosed in this part.

Number & class of securities

Nil

+ See chapter 19 for defined terms.

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Part 2 - Director's relevant interests in securities of which the director is not the registered holder

In the case of a trust, this includes interests in the trust made available by the responsible entity of the trust

Part 3 - Director's interests in contracts

Note: In the case of a company, interests which come within paragraph (ii) of the definition of "notifiable interest of a director" should be disclosed in this part.

+ See chapter 19 for defined terms.

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