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REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENT
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Wojciech Heydel elected new Chairman of UNIPETROL’s Supervisory Board
At its meeting today, the UNIPETROL, a.s. Supervisory Board appointed Wojciech Heydel
substitute Supervisory Board Member until the nearest UNIPETROL, a.s. General Meeting.
Supervisory Board dismissed Piotr Kownacki, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, from his
office, he still remains the Supervisory Board member. Wojciech Heydel was subsequently elected
the Chairman of the Supervisory Board. The UNIPETROL, a.s. Supervisory Board took due note
of Rafał Kapler’s resignation from his office of Member of the UNIPETROL, a.s. Supervisory
Board.
On 28 February 2008 PKN ORLEN’s Supervisory Board authorized Wojciech Heydel to act as the
Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors. Since November 2004 Wojciech Heydel (44)
served as the Vice-Chairman of PKN ORLEN’s Board of Directors, responsible for sales,
overseeing wholesale operations, retail sales, marketing, public relations, planning, strategy and
development. His competencies within PKN ORLEN, S.A. also include areas such as logistics,
alternative energy resources, human resources and audit.
Before joining PKN ORLEN, S.A., Wojciech Heydel worked in various positions in British
Petroleum (BP). In 1990, he established BP’s Polish subsidiary. In 2003 and 2004, he served as
Chairman of the Board of Directors of BP in Poland. From 2001 to 2003, he was responsible for
fuel supplies to Eastern Europe at BP. He spent 2000 and 2001 working for BP directly in London
and between 1995 and 1997 served on the Board of Directors of BP in Poland.
Wojciech Heydel graduated from Silesian University of Technology. He then continued to study at
University of Michigan, US.
In Prague on March 28, 2008
UNIPETROL, a.s.
Reg. Announc. No. 004/2008
UNIPETROL, a. s.
registered in the Commercial Register maintained by the Municipal Court in Prague, Section B, Insert 3020
Klimentská 10, 110 05 Prague 1
tel: 225 001 444, fax: 225 001 447
www.unipetrol.cz
IČ: 61 67 21 90