Mr Evans is a experienced mining and resource industry executive based in Perth who has executive and board level experience with publicly listed companies in the natural resources sector. Michael was until April 2012 the founding Executive Chairman of oil explorer and producer FAR Limited, a position he held from 1995. Under Mr Evan's stewardship, FAR established and built up an international oil and gas portfolio spanning Africa, North America and Australia - with industry partners including Amoco, Shell, BHP, BP, Exxon, CNOOC and Woodside. He was responsible for acquiring FAR's entire West African portfolio including the Senegal acreage where significant oil discoveries were made in 2014 by Cairn Energy.

Dr Staley has more than 35 years of wide-ranging management, technical and commercial experience in the international oil, gas and power sectors. He co-founded and brought to the AIM market both Fastnet Oil & Gas plc (where he was the founding CEO) and Independent Resources plc (where he was the founding Managing Director). He was also both a technical consultant to, and non-executive director of, Cove Energy plc - the highly successful East Africa focused explorer that went from having a market capitalisation of 2 million pound in mid-2009 to being sold to PTTP for 1.2 billion pound in less than three years. Dr Staley is owner and founder of Derwent Resources Limited, an upstream consultancy advising on oil and gas opportunities. Prior to this he has worked for Cinergy Corp., Conoco and BP. Dr Staley was until October 2019 the CEO, director and co-founder of Upland Resources Limited, a London-listed oil & gas company currently with assets onshore UK. Dr Staley is also a non-executive director of Predator Oil & Gas Holdings PLC which is a London-listed oil & gas company. Otherwise Dr Staley does not hold, and has not over the last 3 years held, a directorship in any other public listed company.

Mr Gilbert has financial, compliance and corporate governance experience.

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