`Gas, Oil, Man' Photography Exhibit Opens in Houston on April 7: BG Group and Harrison Lovegrove & Co., Sponsors of the Two-Year Project.

HOUSTON -- Exhibit Takes New Perspective on Today's Global Oil and Gas Industry

BG Group, one of the world's leading players in the global energy market, and Harrison Lovegrove & Co. Ltd., an international oil and gas advisory firm, today announced the exhibition of "Gas, Oil, Man," a photo perspective on the global gas and oil industry by renowned British photographer Simon Townsley.

The exhibition is scheduled to open April 7, in Heritage Hall, on the first floor of the historic JPMorgan Chase Building, 707 Travis Street, in downtown Houston. The exhibit will be open to the public during business hours through May 5.

The two-year photography project, sponsored by BG Group and Harrison Lovegrove, was completed at the end of 2004. It includes 28 color photographs, printed in large scale, of the gas and oil industry at work in California, Canada, Gabon, Louisiana, Liverpool Bay, Mongolia, the North Sea, Papua New Guinea, Scotland, Siberia, Sudan, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia and Vietnam. With the support of BG Group and other international oil and gas companies, Townsley was given unlimited access to oil and gas operations around the world.

Townsley is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose work has been published throughout the world. He was the principal photographer at London's Sunday Times for 10 years and has won the "British Press Photographer of the Year" award twice. During his career, Townsley covered many key world events for the Times, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Martin Houston, president, BG North America, said, "The production of the world's energy supply is vital to the economic well being of our modern societies. As such, BG Group is delighted to be sponsoring a project that captures the spectacular visual impact of the production of energy and shows its interaction and coexistence with the environment in a new light."

Harrison Lovegrove & Co. Chief Executive Martin Lovegrove was the first person Townsley approached to sponsor the "Gas, Oil, Man" project. "We are proud to be the founding and core sponsor of this photographic project and to be the co-sponsor of this magnificent exhibition, which will allow visitors to view the oil and gas industry in its true, breathtaking colors," said Lovegrove. "Townsley's photographs were shot from both traditional and artistic perspectives. They all reflect the industry as it is working today in exotic locations around the world," he added.

According to Townsley, he decided to undertake this project in order to examine the accomplishments of man in pursuit of man's energy needs. "When we finally stop and reflect on the hydrocarbon age, we may well remember it with fondness as a period of stability, prosperity and economic growth," he said. "The two years I spent photographing the industry across the world gave me a surprising and positive insight into the life of the gas and oil sector today."

The exhibition of photographs, several of which are nearly 10 feet wide, will open at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in early March before traveling to the U.S. In addition, a book including all of the key "Gas, Oil, Man" photos currently is in publication. For more information on the book please visit www.oilmanproject.com. For more information about special guided tours or event opportunities during the show, contact [e-mail].

About BG Group

BG Group works across the spectrum of the gas chain, with an operational strategy to develop gas markets and construct infrastructure in tandem with its exploration interests. Active on five continents in some 20 countries, it operates four business segments - Exploration & Production, LNG, Transmission & Distribution and Power Generation. BG's core asset areas are in the UK, North America, Southern Cone, Egypt, Kazakhstan, India and Trinidad & Tobago. Headquartered in the UK, with 60 percent of the employee base located outside of the UK, BG Group has a proud history in all aspects of the energy sector, particularly natural gas, where we have experience across the entire gas chain - from exploration to delivery to the consumer. BG Group is a publicly listed company on the London (BG.L) and New York (BRG) Stock Exchanges.

About Harrison Lovegrove

Harrison Lovegrove & Co. Limited is a London, Houston and Perth based oil and gas corporate finance advisory firm. It has a well recognized group of professionals, who are focused on advising upstream oil & gas companies in developing their businesses through acquisitions, divestitures, swaps of assets and subsidiaries, and the takeover and defense of listed. They have been the core sponsor over the last two years of "Gas, Oil, Man" project.

Editors' Note

Simon Townsley is an internationally acclaimed photographer living and working from London. He spent ten years as a senior photographer at the Sunday Times, twice British Press Photographer of the Year and winner of the Nikon Photo Essay Award. Global events covered include the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Tiananmen Square massacre, the first free elections in South Africa and the handover of Hong Kong as well as conflicts in the Gulf, the Balkans, Africa and Asia. He photographed Prime Ministers Major and Blair, captains of industry, Peers of the Realm, stars and celebrities. In addition he also understands business values, having founded, built and run image.net, a company with revenues exceeding GBP 3m a year and employing 48 people with offices in four countries.