West Named To Magellan Petroleum Board

March 17, 2010 (FinancialWire) — Magellan Petroleum Corp. (NASDAQ: MPET) has named J. Robinson West to fill a newly created vacancy on the company’s board of directors, which has been increased in size from seven to eight directorships by amendment of the company’s bylaws. West will serve as a Class I director until the company’s 2010 annual meeting of shareholders, when he is expected to be nominated for shareholder approval to serve a full three-year term on the board.

West is the chairman, Founder and chief executive officer of PFC Energy, Inc., a Washington, D.C. based consulting firm serving oil and gas companies and governments with 14 offices around the world.

Before founding PFC Energy in 1984, West served in the Reagan Administration as Assistant secretary of the Interior for Policy, Budget and Administration, with responsibility for U.S. offshore oil policy. Between 1977 and 1980, he was a First vice president of Blyth, Eastman, Dillon & Co., Inc., an investment banking firm and was also a member of the firm’s operating committee.

Maine-based Magellan Petroleum, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Magellan Petroleum Australia Ltd. and its majority controlling interest in Nautilus Poplar LLC, is engaged in the sale of oil and gas and the exploration for and development of oil and gas reserves worldwide.

The company engages in oil and gas exploration and production in Australia, the United Kingdom, and North America and has focus areas for conventional oil and gas as well as the developing methanol market in Asia.    

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