Chrysaor Ltd and Premier Oil plc’s proposed reverse takeover will result in a new name for the company of Harbour Energy plc. Harbour Energy will be the largest London-listed independent oil and gas company by production and reserves. The company’s board will comprise 11 directors including six independent non-executive directors, two non-executive directors appointed by funds […]
Company Moves
Premier Oil CEO Tony Durrant steps down from board
Premier Oil chief executive Tony Durrant stepped down today (16 December) from the company’s board of directors. He will remain CEO until 31 December 2020. Finance director Richard Rose will be the interim chief executive from 1 January 2021 until completion of Premier’s proposed merger with Chrysaor. Chief operating officer Stuart Wheaton will be interim […]
Alba appoints two new non-executive directors
Alba Mineral Resources plc has appointed two new non-executive directors with immediate effect. Lars Brünner was from 2014 until May 2020 the arctic mining and environment, business development leader for international mining and environmental consultancy firm Golder Associates A/S. Mr Brünner has been an environmental consultant for more than 25 years and conducted numerous environmental […]
Altona appoints Christian Taylor-Wilkinson as CEO
Altona Energy plc announced that Christian Taylor-Wilkinson has been made Altona’s full-time CEO. Mr Taylor-Wilkinson has represented the board as a non-executive director since 1 February 2019 and interim chief executive since 20 March 2020. The company said that for the past 12 months he has been the main driver of its new rare earths […]
IOG COO Mark Hughes to retire
Independent Oil and Gas plc has announced that its chief operating officer, Mark Hughes, is retiring for health reasons after a career spanning more than 40 years with Shell, Lasmo, Gaz de France, RWE Dea UK, INEOS Breagh and latterly IOG. Chief executive Andrew Hockey said: “Since he joined IOG in April 2018, Mark has […]
Cornish Lithium appoints Varshan Gokool as CFO
Cornish Lithium Ltd has appointed Varshan Gokool as its chief financial officer. Mr Gokool will assist in the development of lithium projects in Cornwall in an economically and financially robust framework. He has more than 22 years experience in guiding publicly listed mining companies from project definition through to development and construction. Mr Gokool was most […]