Directorate Change

RNS Number : 4711K

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd.

25 June 2014

 



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25 June 2014

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (LSE: GKP)

Directorate Change

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited ("Gulf Keystone" or the "Company")  today announces that Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chairman Jeremy Asher and Non-Executive Director John Bell have ceased to be Directors in accordance with the Company's bye-laws. The Company will restart its previously announced search process, with the assistance of Odgers Berndtson, one of the UK's pre-eminent executive search firms, for two new independent non-executive directors, and a further announcement on that process will be made in due course.

The Company also announces that Todd Kozel will retire from his current role of CEO at the Company's upcoming Annual General Meeting on 17 July 2014 and that, subject to Mr. Kozel's re-election to the Board of Directors by shareholders, he will take up a new role of Executive Director. A search for Mr Kozel's replacement is underway with the assistance of an international executive search firm and potential candidates have been identified.

Enquiries:
Gulf Keystone Petroleum:	[phone]
Anastasia Vvedenskaya, Head of Investor Relations
Press enquiries:
The Dilenschneider Group
Jeffrey Keegan	[phone]
Terence Franklin	[phone]

or visit: www.gulfkeystone.com   

Notes to Editors:

·           Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (LSE: GKP) is an independent oil and gas exploration, development and production company focused on exploration in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

·           Gulf Keystone Petroleum International (GKPI) holds Production Sharing Contracts for four exploration blocks in Kurdistan, the Shaikan, Sheikh Adi, Ber Bahr and Akri-Bijeel blocks.

·           GKPI is the Operator of the Shaikan Block, which is a major commercial discovery, with a working interest of 75% and is partnered with Kalegran Ltd. (a 100% subsidiary of MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas plc.) and Texas Keystone Inc., which have working interests of 20% and 5% respectively.  Texas Keystone Inc. holds its interest in trust for Gulf Keystone, pending transfer of its interest to the Company.

·           Gulf Keystone is moving into the large-scale phased development of the Shaikan field targeting 100,000 bopd of production capacity during Phase 1 of the Shaikan Field Development Plan following its approval in June 2013.

Disclaimer

This announcement has been prepared solely to provide additional information to shareholders to assess the Group's strategies and the potential for those strategies to succeed.  This announcement should not be relied on by any other party or for any other purpose.

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