PrimeWest Energy Trust Appoints Peter Valentine to Board of Directors CALGARY, April 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (TSX: PWI.UN; PWX; NYSE: PWI) - PrimeWest Energy Trust (PrimeWest) today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Peter Valentine to the Board. Mr. Valentine will also sit as a member of the Audit Committee of the Board. Mr. Valentine currently holds a joint appointment as Senior Advisor to the President and CEO of the Calgary Health Region (CHR) and to the Dean of Medicine at the University of Calgary. He recently completed a six-month term as Interim Vice-President, Finance and Services at the University of Calgary. Prior to his present appointment, Mr. Valentine served for seven years as the Auditor General for the Province of Alberta. From 1958 to 1995 he worked with KPMG, serving as Partner-in-Charge of Professional Practice for the Calgary office, Chair of the KPMG International Energy Practice Group, and Senior Audit Partner responsible for a variety of medium to large sized organizations, with expertise in both the oil and gas industry and Canadian securities practice. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Canadian Comprehensive Audit Foundation (CCAF-FCVI Inc.), and has previously served as Chair of the Financial Advisory Committee of the Alberta Securities Commission and as a member of the Accounting Standards Board and the Public Sector Accounting Board of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. Mr. Valentine is a member of the Board of Trustees, and a member of the Audit Committee of the Fording Canadian Coal Trust; and a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Audit Committee of Resmor Trust Company, a private Canadian financial institution; and a member of the Board of Trustees, and a member of the Audit Committee of Superior Plus Income Fund. Mr. Valentine graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Commerce (with distinction). PrimeWest is a Calgary-based conventional oil and gas royalty trust that actively acquires, develops, produces, and sells natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids for the generation of monthly cash distributions to unitholders. Trust units of PrimeWest are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the symbol "PWI.UN" and on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "PWI". Exchangeable shares of PrimeWest Energy Inc. are listed on the TSX under the symbol "PWX". Learn more about PrimeWest on our Web site, http://www.primewestenergy.com/. DATASOURCE: PrimeWest Energy Trust CONTACT: Investor Relations inquiries, please contact: George Kesteven, Manager, Investor Relations, (403) 699-7367, Cindy Gray, Investor Relations Advisor, (403) 699-7356, Toll-free: 1-877-968-7878, e-mail: ; To request a free copy of this organization's annual report, please go to http://www.newswire.ca/ and click on reports@cnw.

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