2
August 2024
Tower Resources
plc
("Tower"
or the "Company")
Board
Changes
Tower Resources plc (AIM: TRP), the
AIM-listed oil and gas company focused on Africa, is pleased to
announce the following Board changes.
First, the Company is delighted to
announce the appointment of Ms Stacey Kivel as an independent
Non-Executive Director of the Company with immediate
effect.
Stacey has 20 years' experience in
senior management and as a company director, including as a Head
Corporate Counsel and Company Secretary, working across business
development and investor relations for oil exploration operators
with assets in Africa, including both AIM and TSX listed
companies. As a US qualified lawyer with a degree in Finance,
she assisted these entrepreneurial companies with their commercial
activities, including the raising of hundreds of millions of US
dollars in debt and equity finance to successfully run drilling
campaigns. Stacey is also familiar with both Cameroon and Tower,
albeit some time ago, having served as an advisor and counsel to
Tower between 2013 and 2016, where she was mandated with securing
the successful acquisition of the Thali block in Cameroon, and
assisted the Company with its other African interests.
Stacey will join the Remuneration
and Audit Committees and has agreed to chair the Remuneration
Committee going forward.
Second, the Company is also pleased
to announce that Dr Mark Enfield has agreed to increase his time
commitment to the Company and will henceforth serve as an Executive
Director of the Company. This step reflects the growing amount of
subsurface and technical work which the Company has been
undertaking over the past year as Operator of both the Cameroon
Thali license and the Namibian PEL 96 license, and which the
Company expects to increase further over the years
ahead.
The Company is stepping up the
already substantial amount of subsurface work it has been carrying
out on PEL 96, where Tower intends to reprocess a large amount of
2D data over the coming months ahead of further 3D seismic data
acquisition, as recently explained in today's Namibia Update
announcement. Furthermore, the NJOM-3 well, which the Company is
still expecting to spud in late Q4 2024 or early Q1 2025 (before
the end of the current license period in February 2025) will also
provide us with a large amount of further subsurface data which
will need to be integrated rapidly into our models and plans for
the next three production wells. As a result, Tower is pleased to
appoint Mark in an executive capacity, though this will also mean
ending our formal out-sourcing agreement with EPI Group ("EPI"),
under which the Company had been contracting this work until now.
Tower will continue to work with EPI and will use their personnel
on an ad hoc basis as required.
As a result of Mark shifting to the
role of an Executive Director, he will no longer serve on the
Remuneration Committee or the Audit Committee, and his position on
those committees will be taken by Stacey Kivel as noted
above.
Tower Resources Chairman & CEO, Jeremy Asher,
commented:
"We are delighted to welcome Stacey
to the Board and to have a greater share of Mark's time - though he
has shown no shortage of commitment to us over the last few years
in his non-executive capacity. The Company has previously worked
with Stacey in a professional capacity some years ago, so we know
that her quality both as a lawyer and as a commercial advisor
within our industry, and her familiarity with our Thali PSC, which
she helped to negotiate in 2014-15, and with Cameroon where she has
been working on other projects recently, will serve the Company
well as we build our business there. We must also thank EPI for
their support over many years, and look forward to this excellent
working relationship continuing, albeit in a different form, for
many years to come."
The following information is
disclosed pursuant to Rule 17 and Schedule Two paragraph (g) of the
AIM Rules for Companies in relation to Ms Stacey Lynne Kivel, aged
57:
Current directorships and/or
partnerships:
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Former directorships and/or
partnerships (within the last five years):
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Geoscience Energy Society of Great
Britain (GESGB) Conferences Limited
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Braveheart Clean Energy Investments
Limited
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SLK Global Advisory
Limited
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Gcorp Strategies
Incorporated
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There are no further disclosures
required under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for
Companies.
Contacts:
Tower Resources plc
Jeremy Asher
Chairman & CEO
Andrew Matharu
VP - Corporate Affairs
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+44
20 7157 9625
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BlytheRay
Financial PR
Tim Blythe
Megan Ray
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+44
20 7138 3204
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SP
Angel Corporate Finance LLP
Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker
Stuart Gledhill
Caroline Rowe
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+44
20 3470 0470
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Axis
Capital Markets Limited
Joint Broker
Lewis Jones
Ben Tadd
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+44
203 026 2689
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Novum Securities Ltd
Joint Broker
Jon Bellis
Colin Rowbury
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+44
20 7399 9400
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About Tower Resources
Tower Resources plc is an AIM listed
energy company building a balanced portfolio of energy
opportunities in Africa across the exploration and production cycle
in oil and gas and beyond. The Company's current focus is on
advancing its operations in Cameroon to deliver cash flow through
short-cycle development and rapid production with long term upside,
and de-risking attractive exploration licenses through acquiring 3D
seismic data in the emerging oil and gas provinces of Namibia and
South Africa, where world-class discoveries have recently been
made.