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<strong>Directors</strong>: <strong>Registered</strong> <strong>Office</strong>:<br />
<strong>Oscar</strong> <strong>Spieler</strong> <strong>Par</strong>-<strong>la</strong>-<strong>Ville</strong> P<strong>la</strong>ce<br />
<strong>Kate</strong> B<strong>la</strong>nkenship 14 <strong>Par</strong>-<strong>la</strong>-<strong>Ville</strong> Road<br />
Jens Martin Jensen Hamilton HM 08<br />
Bermuda<br />
July 25, 2007<br />
Dear Shareholder<br />
Notice of Special General Meeting<br />
Principal p<strong>la</strong>ce of Business in Norway:<br />
c/o Sea Production Management AS<br />
Holmens gate 4<br />
P.O.Box 1327 Vika<br />
0112 Oslo<br />
Norway<br />
On Monday 16th June 2007, Ashmore Global Special Situations Fund 2 Limited, Ashmore Global<br />
Special Situations Fund 3 Limited <strong>Par</strong>tnership and Asset Holder PCC No.2 Ltd re Ashmore Asian<br />
Recovery Fund (together, the “Ashmore Funds”) became the beneficial owners of 47,653,850 shares<br />
representing approximately 52.95% of the issued share capital of Sea Production Ltd (the<br />
“Company”).<br />
In light of its controlling shareholding, Ashmore has requested that its nominees be elected to the<br />
board of directors of the Company. The board of directors of the Company has resolved to convene a<br />
special general meeting to be held on Monday August 13, 2007 (“SGM”) to give shareholders an<br />
opportunity to determine the composition of the board of directors of the Company. The proposals<br />
require only the approval of a simple majority of shareholders present and voting at the SGM.<br />
Notice of the SGM together with a form of proxy is enclosed. Please read the notes on the notice and<br />
form of proxy carefully. In particu<strong>la</strong>r please note that forms of proxy and the power of attorney or<br />
other authority (if any) under which they are signed or a notarially certified copy thereof must be<br />
deposited at Nordea Bank Norge ASA Issuer Services PO Box 1166 Sentrum 0107 Oslo, Norway<br />
(Fax: +47 22 48 49 90/ +47 22 48 63 49) by not <strong>la</strong>ter than 48 hours before the time for holding the<br />
meeting failing which they will not be valid. The completion and return of a form of proxy will not<br />
prevent you attending the SGM in person should you so desire.<br />
Biographical details of the proposed new directors are as follows:<br />
Justin Reis is a Director and one of the founders of Presidio Capital, an Asian based private equity<br />
investment firm headquartered in Singapore. Justin has a Bachelor of Science degree from the<br />
London School of Economics.
Tim Davis is head of legal at Ashmore. He qualified as a banking and capital markets <strong>la</strong>wyer with<br />
Simmons & Simmons in London before joining Credit Suisse First Boston’s Emerging Markets<br />
Group. During his five years with CSFB, he gained extensive experience structuring emerging<br />
market fixed income and equity products in Asia, Eastern Europe and South America and was also<br />
responsible for the establishment of a number of local branches and subsidiaries of the CSFB group<br />
within emerging market jurisdictions. He holds a degree and masters in <strong>la</strong>w from University<br />
College London.<br />
Seumas Dawes is senior portfolio manager and a member of the Investment Committee at Ashmore.<br />
He joined Ashmore from <strong>Par</strong>ibas Limited, where he was responsible for local markets derivatives<br />
trading. Prior to <strong>Par</strong>ibas he worked for two years as Head of Local Markets Proprietary Trading at<br />
ANZ Investment Bank and before that, was a Director at Merrill Lynch, in the International Credit<br />
Trading group. Mr Dawes has extensive trading experience in emerging markets, credit products,<br />
and foreign exchange, interest rate and equity derivatives.<br />
Graham B.R. Collis is a Bermudian attorney specialising in company and commercial <strong>la</strong>w and is a<br />
partner with the firm Conyers Dill & Pearman in Bermuda. He has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree<br />
from the University of Toronto and received his <strong>la</strong>w degree from Oxford University.<br />
Tim Davis and Graham Collis are intended to be successors to <strong>Kate</strong> B<strong>la</strong>nkenship and Jens Martin<br />
Jensen who have both indicated their intention not to continue in office beyond the SGM.<br />
I will continue in office as a director and chief executive officer of the Company. No other changes<br />
in the senior management of the Company are proposed at this time.<br />
I hope you will be able to attend the SGM in person although if you cannot do so I would urge you<br />
to cast your vote(s) by completing and returning the form of proxy.<br />
I look forward to your attendance at the SGM.<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
<strong>Oscar</strong> <strong>Spieler</strong><br />
Chairman/Director and Chief Executive <strong>Office</strong>r