SET Announcements

-TRANSLATION- 1000/040/2010 February 26, 2010 Subject : Additional Information of the Dividend Payment of the Bangchak Petroleum Public Company Limited Attention : President of the Stock Exchange of Thailand Referring to the meeting No. 2/2010 held on Friday, February 19, 2010, The Board of Directors of the Bangchak Petroleum Public Company Limited ("the Company") passed the resolution, proposing to the 2010 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to approve the dividend payment for the second-half-year operation of 2009 at the rate of 0.80 Baht per share. When including the interim dividend payment at the rate of 1 Baht per share from retained earning profit for the first-half-year operation of 2009; therefore, in 2009, the total dividend payment will be 1.80 Baht per share. The Company would like to inform that the Company considered to pay out the dividend as possible, according to the Company's Dividend Payment Policy, "The Company has the policy to pay out dividend to the shareholders at the rate of 50 percent of net profit of consolidated financial statements. However, this is subject to the economic situation and the Company's future business projects". Moreover, The Company has taken both short term and long term benefit to all shareholders into account when considering the 2009 operation dividend payment, which achieved the dividend yield of 12.8%. Apart from the dividend payment, the Company has several future renewable energy business development projects in pipeline, especially in 2010, there are investment of Baht 3,200 million in a solar-cell power generation plant and Baht 1,000 million in a 200,000 liters per day ethanol plant, which will generate benefit to all shareholder afterward. Please be informed accordingly. Yours sincerely, -signed- (Mr. Wattana Opanonamata) Senior Executive Vice President Corporate Administration and Information Technology for President Office of the Secretary to the Board of Directors Tel. 0-2335-4850 Fax 0-2140-8902