PetroChina : Proposed Appointment Of Director

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中國石油天然氣股份有限公司

(a joint stock limited company incorporated in the People's Republic of China with limited liability)

The Board of Directors (the "Board") of PetroChina Company Limited (the "Company") has proposed to appoint Mr Zhang Jianhua as a director of the Company (the "Proposed Appointment"). The Proposed Appointment shall be approved by the shareholders of the Company (the "Shareholders") by way of ordinary resolution at the 2016 extraordinary general meeting of the Company (the "EGM").

The biographical details of Mr Zhang Jianhua are as follows:

Save as disclosed above, as at the date of this announcement, Mr Zhang Jianhua (i) has not held any directorship in any other listed companies in the past three years; (ii) has no relationship

with any other director, supervisor, senior management, substantial shareholder or controlling shareholder of the Company; and (iii) has no interest in the shares of the Company within the meaning of Part XV of the Securities and Futures Ordinance.

There is no information on Mr Zhang Jianhua that needs to be disclosed pursuant to any of the requirements under paragraphs 13.51(2)(h) to 13.51(2)(v) of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited nor are there any other matters that need to be brought to the attention of the Shareholders.

If the Proposed Appointment is approved at the EGM, Mr Zhang Jianhua's term of office will commence from the date when his appointment is approved at the EGM and expire on the date of the 2018 annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2019. The director's emolument of Mr Zhang Jianhua will be fixed by the Board pursuant to the authority granted by the Shareholders at the EGM.

The notice and circular of EGM containing, among others, the details of the Proposed Appointment will be dispatched to the Shareholders as soon as practicable.

By order of the Board PetroChina Company Limited Wu Enlai

Secretary to the Board

Beijing, China 24 August 2016

As at the date of this announcement, the Board of Directors comprises Mr Wang Yilin as the Chairman; Mr Wang Dongjin as Vice Chairman and executive director; Mr Yu Baocai, Mr Shen Diancheng, Mr Liu Yuezhen and Mr Xu Wenrong as non-executive directors; Mr Liu Hongbin and Mr Zhao Zhengzhang as executive directors; and Mr Chen Zhiwu, Mr Richard H. Matzke, Mr Lin Boqiang and Mr Zhang Biyi as independent non- executive directors.