The Board of Key Petroleum Ltd. announced the appointment of Mr. Kane Marshall as Chief Executive Officer of the company and its subsidiary companies. His experience in the international oil industry includes positions with RDE Dea UK Limited as a Petroleum Engineer in the Southern Gas Basin, UK, Woodside Petroleum and as a Reservoir Engineer on projects in the North West Shelf and for Chevron in both their oil and gas projects in the offshore Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia and, more recently with Santos as a Consultant Production Engineer for their onshore Queensland operations. The Directors of the company look forward to both the technical business skills and international and Australian contacts which Kane can bring to the Board at a time when the company is to accelerate its exploration programmes and pursuing new ventures.