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05.12.2006

- Reflects growing importance of OMV’s gas business
- Auli will take over gas segment from CEO Ruttenstorfer
- Remaining responsibilities in the Management Board remain unchanged

The OMV Supervisory Board has today appointed Werner Auli to the
Executive Board of OMV, Central Europe's leading oil and gas group.
As member of the Executive Board, Auli - head of OMV Gas
International GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of OMV
Aktiengesellschaft - will be in charge of the company's gas division,
effective as of 1 January 2007. Werner Auli is taking over these
business agendas from Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer, who will be putting
additional focus on the strategic governing of the Group. Rainer
Wieltsch, Chairman of the Supervisory Board: "I am delighted to be
able to welcome Werner Auli as new member of the Executive Board. He
is an outstanding strategist and prudent planner of OMV's growth
strategy in the gas business. This segment is being established as
third main pillar of our company. I appreciate Auli as an extremely
competent manager and I am certain that he will complement the well
balanced team of OMV’s Executive Board perfectly. The fact that Mr.
Auli was appointed as internal candidate shows very clearly that OMV
has developed a sound management potential within the company".
Werner Auli: "I am very happy that in future I will be able to apply
the experience I acquired in OMV's gas business within the framework
of the Executive Board. In past years the gas business was developed
into an important pillar of the OMV Group and is a significant
constitutive factor in Central Europe. I consider it my special
challenge in my new capacity, to further promote the
internationalisation, in order to contribute substantially to OMV's
profitable growth path." The optimisation of supply security with
projects such as the Nabucco Pipeline and the LNG Terminal in Croatia
and the infrastructure expansion in Austria are further areas that
will be given special attention, Auli added.

Strong growth potential in the gas business As one of the determining
natural gas suppliers in Central and Eastern Europe, OMV intends to
expand its gas segment by 2010. Here the Group will continue to build
on internationalisation. OMV intends to expand its gas marketing
volumes from the present approx. 14 bcm to 20 bcm per year. The Group
plans to produce more than a third of the gas volume it sells. The
corresponding strategy is based on the segment of wholesale and
trading with its 50% subsidiary EconGas (founded at the end of 2002)
and Petrom's gas business in Romania; logistics and storage business;
and a close cooperation with OMV's own gas production. In order to
be able to organise this process efficiently, at the beginning of
2006 OMV strengthened its gas business with a new holding structure,
with OMV Gas International GmbH acting as the holding company. OMV is
using its extensive liberalisation-know-how - Austria has the most
liberalised gas market in continental Europe - as a competitive
advantage in its expansion strategy into target countries in Central
and Eastern Europe that remain to be liberalised.

Years of experience in the gas business Dr. techn. Dipl. Ing. Werner
Auli was born 1960, is married and has two children. Auli graduated
from the Technical University in Vienna and started his career 1987
in OMV's department for company development and strategic control. In
1990 he became assistant to the Management Board for the areas of
chemicals and materials. 1991 he became assistant of the Management
Board for the areas finances, controlling and chemicals. From 1993 to
2000 Werner Auli was managing director of AUSTRIA Mineralöl Gmbh,
responsible for finances and accounting, controlling, marketing, IT
and manpower. In 2000 he took over the management of the OMV
Cogeneration GmbH and from 2001 to 2003 additionally was responsible
for the management of OMV Erdgas GmbH with the areas supply,
marketing and distribution. From 2002 to 2004 Werner Auli was
managing director of EconGas, a 50% subsidiary of OMV, where he was
responsible for finances, supply & trading, marketing and foreign
distribution. 2004 he returned to the OMV Group, where he was CEO and
speaker of the Management Board of OMV Gas GmbH. On 1 January 2006 he
became head of OMV Gas International GmbH.

end of announcement euro adhoc 05.12.2006 14:17:12
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