Seaview Energy Inc. Announces Appointment of New Chairman

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Seaview Energy Inc. ("Seaview" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:CVU.A)(TSX
VENTURE:CVU.B) is pleased to announce that Mr. Daryl H. Gilbert has been
appointed Chairman of the board of directors of Seaview effective today.


Mr. Gilbert is a professional petroleum engineer and has been a director of
Seaview since June 2007. Mr. Gilbert is currently a Managing Director of JOG
Capital Inc., a private equity energy investment management firm. He also serves
as a director on the boards of several energy related public entities, including
Penn West Energy Trust and AltaGas Income Trust. Mr. Gilbert graduated from the
University of Manitoba in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil
Engineering and is the former President and CEO of Gilbert Laustsen Jung
Associates Ltd, now GLJ Petroleum Consultants Ltd., a major independent
petroleum evaluation consulting firm based in Calgary. After a 26 year career at
GLJ, he retired from the professional consulting field in early 2005.


Mr. Gilbert is currently a member of the Association of Petroleum Engineers,
Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta, the Canadian Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy and the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers.


Seaview's board of directors consists of Daryl Gilbert, James Howe, Steven
VanSickle, Gregory Turnbull, Michael Culbert, Robert Peters, Bruce Francis,
Michael Wuetherick and Scott Oldale.