<p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Paradigm President and CEO to Speak at IMAGINE '09: Ideas at Work<br /></span></strong><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">John W. Gibson, Jr. to discuss the value of open innovation at the 2009 American Astronautical Society conference</span></em></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(HOUSTON, Texas: November 18, 2009)</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Paradigm^{^TM} (</span><a href="http://www.pdgm.com/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">www.pdgm.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">), a leading provider of enterprise software solutions to the global oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&amp;P) industry, announced today that the company's President and CEO, </span><a href="http://www.pdgm.com/company/default.aspx"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">John W. Gibson, Jr.</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, will speak at the </span><a href="http://astronautical.org/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">American Astronautical Society</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> (AAS) conference, </span><a href="http://astronautical.org/2009/10/26/imagine-09-ideas-at-work-dec-2-3/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">IMAGINE '09: <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Ideas at Work</em></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, to be held December 2 and 3 at the NASA Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas. The event will engage CEOs, entrepreneurs, astronauts, and scholars, spanning a range of industries, in an interactive forum aimed at sparking powerful new ideas within the greater space community.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A recognized visionary and thought leader, Gibson will discuss how large entrepreneurial companies are utilizing collaborative, global, web-based communities to generate creative solutions and establish a more sustainable culture of innovation. He will also investigate the pitfalls that growing companies must overcome to remain creative and competitive in rapidly advancing industries.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Gibson has become one of the most vocal and progressive proponents of new models of innovation. Under his leadership, Paradigm became the first software developer in the upstream energy industry to post critical </span><a href="http://www.pdgm.com/_pdf/PR.2008.10.21.InnoCentive.FINAL.pdf"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">high-priority challenges</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> to the InnoCentive^&reg; Open Innovation Marketplace^{^TM}. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For more information on Paradigm products and services, visit information at </span><a href="http://www.pdgm.com/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">www.pdgm.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">), or e-mail </span><a href="mailto:info@pdgm.com"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">info@pdgm.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">&nbsp;</span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">About Paradigm</span></strong>^{<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">^TM</span>}</p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Paradigm Ltd. (</span><a href="http://www.pdgm.com/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">www.pdgm.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">) is an industry leader in digital subsurface asset management, serving oil and gas companies worldwide. Paradigm technology <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">solutions for seismic processing and imaging, interpretation and modeling, reservoir characterization and petrophysics, and well planning and drilling operate in an open environment to accelerate results</span>. Paradigm has a global network of sales, consulting and support. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of Paradigm Ltd. or of its affiliates (collectively, "Paradigm"): Paradigm^{^TM}, Paradigm logo and/or other Paradigm products referenced herein. All other trademarks are owned by their respective owners. Please read the Paradigm notice on </span><a href="http://www.pdgm.com/legal/default.aspx#Forward-Looking-Statements"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">forward-looking statements</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">About American Astronautical Society</span></strong></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Formed in 1954, the American Astronautical Society (</span><a href="http://www.astronautical.org/"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">www.astronautical.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">) is America's network of space professionals, technical and non-technical, dedicated to advancing all space activities. The AAS has long been recognized for the excellence of its national meetings, technical meetings, symposia and publications as well as for the impact these have had on shaping the U.S. space program.</span></p>