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Directorate Changes

15th Sep 2014 07:00

RNS Number : 6056R
Eland Oil & Gas PLC
15 September 2014
 



 

15 September 2014

 

Eland Oil & Gas PLC

("Eland" or the "Company")

 

Directorate Changes

 

Eland Oil & Gas PLC (AIM: ELA), an oil & gas development and exploration company operating in West Africa with an initial focus on Nigeria, today announces the resignation of Andrew Bartlett from his position as a Non-Executive Director of the Company. Eland would like to thank Andrew for all his work and contribution to the Company since 2012. We wish him well in his future endeavours.

 

Eland is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Richard Norris as Non-Executive Director of the Company to replace Andrew Bartlett. Richard joins the Board today and will represent Helios Natural Resources, a significant shareholder in Eland.

 

Dr Richard Norris has over 25 years' oil and gas experience and is currently Upstream Adviser to Helios Investment Partners. In his early career, Richard held the position of Reservoir Engineer at Elf Aquitaine, subsequently Total, covering upstream operations, reserves, new ventures and economic strategy over a ten year period in France and Angola. Later he established the Technical Director role at BNP Paribas in its European oil and gas structured finance group. More recently he was General Operations Manager for Geopetrol and subsequently in 2010-2011 Richard was CEO and President of the TSX listed Candax Energy.

 

Richard holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering and an MSc in Petroleum Geology from Imperial College London as well as a BSc in Geology.

 

Dr Richard Norris (age 48) directorships in the last five years are as follows:

 

Current

Wannasurf.com Limited

Pandreco Limited

 

Last 5 years

Candax Energy Limited

 

Richard Norris shareholdings in the Company:

Under a success fee arrangement with Helios, Richard Norris is a Limited Partner in HNR Co-Investment Partners LLP ("HNR Co-Investment"), with Helios as the General Partner, whereby HNR Co-Investment indirectly holds on Richard Norris's behalf, 79,845 ordinary shares in Eland (representing 0.06% of the current issued share capital of the Company) through its investment in Helios Natural Resources Ltd whose only asset is shares in Eland. Any monetisation of the indirect stake is at the sole discretion of the General Partner.

Helios hold, through Helios Natural Resources Limited, 39,600,000 ordinary shares in the Company, including those held on behalf of Dr Norris as described above, representing 28.03% of the current issued share capital of the Company. Helios Natural Resources also hold an additional 10,000,000 Non-Voting Shares.

 

There is no further information to be disclosed in relation to schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM rules.

 

 

For further information:

Eland Oil & Gas PLC

+44 (0) 207 016 3180

George Maxwell, CEO

 

Louis Castro, CFO

 

Edward Cozens, IR

 

 

 

Canaccord Genuity Limited

+44 (0) 207 523 8000

Henry Fitzgerald-O'Connor

 

Peter Stewart

 

 

FirstEnergy Capital LLP

+44 (0) 207 448 0200

Majid Shafiq

 

Khalid Ahmed

 

 

Citigate Dewe Rogerson

+44 (0) 207 638 9571

Martin Jackson

Shabnam Bashir

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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