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Kistos appoints James Thomson as deputy CFO

Kistos Holdings plc has appointed James Thomson as deputy chief financial officer with immediate effect. He is expected to become CFO and join the board on 1 January 2025, subject to due diligence, after current post holder Richard Slape steps down at the end of 2024. “I would like to express my gratitude to Richard, who […]

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Central Asia Metals CEO to step down

Central Asia Metals plc chief executive officer Nigel Robinson is to step down, effective from 1 October. CHALLENGING His successor will be chief financial officer Gavin Ferrar who has been with the company for 10 years. Executive director of corporate development Louise Wrathall will become CFO on the same date, while retaining focus on business […]

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Baron appoints new chairman in board changes

Baron Oil plc has made further board changes with the appointment of Gerry Aherne as new independent non-executive chairman, with immediate effect. Other company moves will see technical director Jon Ford leave the board at the end of April 2024 but remain in a part-time consultancy role of technical adviser.   John Chessher has joined […]

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Capricorn awards 400,000 share options to CFO

Capricorn Energy has awarded 400,000 nil-cost options over its ordinary shares of 735/143 pence each to its chief financial officer Eddie Ok. The grant on 8 April was made under the company’s long term incentive plan approved by shareholders in 2017. All shares were awarded at £1.75 per share, in line with those made on 2 […]

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Beacon CEO Larry Bottomley to step down

Beacon Energy plc chief executive officer Larry Bottomley will step down from 1 June 2024. His replacement is the company’s chief financial officer Stewart MacDonald. Mr Bottomley, who will become a non-executive director, has more than 40 years’ industry experience and became Beacon’s CEO in January 2022. He was instrumental in re-establishing the company from […]

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Tullow Oil CEO-CFO exercise total 10.5m share options

Two Tullow Oil plc directors have exercised a combined 10.5 million granted nil price options over ordinary shares of 10p each in the company. On 11 March, chief executive officer Rahul Dhir acquired 5,549,057 shares in relation to the company’s executive share plan for the performance period 2024-2026. He also acquired 1,144,385 shares from options […]