People: Nexen Inc. (NXY)

Mr. Jim Arnold has been appointed to the position of Senior Vice President, Synthetic Crude of Nexen Inc. Mr. Arnold re-joined Nexen in February 2009 as Vice President Operations and Projects, Synthetic Oil. Prior to this Mr. Arnold held the positions of Chief Operating Officer of OPTI Canada Inc (October 2005 to January 2009) and Vice President, Development of OPTI having left Canadian Occidental to establish OPTI's Calgary office in January 2000. During 1999, Mr. Arnold was the General Manager and Reservoir Engineering Manager of Canadian Occidental Petroleum's Heavy Oil Business Unit and during 1998 was the General Manager Facilities (Domestic) of Canadian Occidental Petroleum. Mr. Arnold held various positions with Wascana Energy Inc. (formerly Saskoil) from 1982 to 1997, ranging from Development Engineer to General Manager, Deep/Medium Gas Business Unit. Mr. Arnold is a professional engineer in Alberta. He holds a B. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manitoba.