Keith Henry was appointed as Non Executive Chairman in April 2008. Mr Henry has over 35 years' experience in the development, financing, design, construction and management of projects in the oil and gas, process, pipeline, and energy industries, during which time he was Chief Executive of National Power plc, Kvaerner Engineering and Construction Limited and Brown & Root Limited. In recent years, Mr Henry has held a number of senior non-executive roles, including Director then Chairman of Burren Energy plc for three years until the sale of the company to Eni SpA in January 2008. He is currently Chairman of Helius Energy Plc, the senior independent director of Emerald Energy plc and a non-executive director of four privately owned companies. He previously served as deputy chairman of Petroleum Geo-Services ASA from 2003 and then led the demerger as chairman of Petrojarl ASA in 2006. He also served as a non-executive director of First Calagary Petroleums Limited from 2007 to 2008, of South East Water Ltd from 2005 to 2007 and of Enterprise Oil plc from 1995 to 2002. Mr Henry is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a chartered civil engineer with a BSc degree from London University and a MSc from the University of Birmingham.

David Greer was appointed as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in November 2007. Mr Greer subsequently relinquished the post of Chairman to Mr Henry in April 2008. Mr Greer has extensive oil industry experience, having worked for Shell International Exploration and Production for 28 years. He has held a wide variety of engineering, production, commercial and senior executive positions in Shell's operations in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, Canada, Oman, Argentina, the Philippines and latterly as deputy CEO and project director of the Sakhalin 2 project in Russia. Mr Greer graduated from the University of Edinburgh in Civil and Structural Engineering and is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Mr Greer was awarded his OBE in the 2003 New Year Honours List.

Robert Wilde joined as Finance Director in May 2008. Mr Wilde has over 21 years' experience in the energy industry, having worked in upstream, oil and gas, with Phillips Petroleum and Ranger Oil and also in the downstream power generation sector with Powergen and RWE. He has held a number of senior finance and board roles in respect of projects in Hungary, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Russia. Most recently, Mr Wilde was finance director of Baltic Oil Terminals plc, having taken that company to IPO on the AIM market in 2006. He is a graduate in Geology & Geophysics from Imperial College, London and qualified as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young.

Harry Verkuil was appointed Chief Operating Officer in November 2007 with effect from January 2008. Mr Verkuil worked for Shell International Exploration and Production for 25 years in a wide variety of well engineering, operational and management roles in the Netherlands, Brunei, United Kingdom, Pakistan, India and more recently in Saudi Arabia where he held the position of Acting Operations Manager with South Rub Al Khali Company Ltd. Mr Verkuil holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a Chartered Engineer.  

Adrian Coates was appointed as Non-Executive Director in July 2008.  Mr Coates has many years' experience in the investment banking industry, having recently resigned from HSBC Bank plc after 10 years, latterly as Global Sector Head, Resources and Energy Group, Global Banking and Markets Division.  He has also held senior roles in UBS, Warrior International and Credit Suisse First Boston with a specialisation in the natural resources sector. His City experience is extensive and he has advised on many substantial corporate transactions.  He holds a MA(Econ) from Cambridge University and a MSc(MBA) from London Business School.

Dr Graham has over 29 years experience in the oil and gas industry having held a number of senior management roles with BP plc ("BP"), including UK Business Development Manager, Upstream Mergers and Acquisitions Manager, V-P of OAO Sidanco in Russia, leader of BP's Southern North Sea gas production business, V-P of BP Exploration Alaska and, most recently, leader of BP's Russia business unit and its shareholder representative for the TNK-BP joint venture. Since retirement from BP in March 2009, Dr Graham has provided consultant advisory services in the oil and gas sector.  He holds a PhD in Geology from the University of Edinburgh, an MBA from the University of Strathclyde and an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.