Directorate Change

RNS Number : 5748O

Serica Energy plc

29 May 2015

 



Serica Energy plc ("Serica" or the "Company")

BOARD CHANGE

London, 29 May 2015 - Serica Energy plc (AIM: SQZ) announces that Mitch Flegg, COO, has been offered the job of Chief Executive Officer with another AIM listed independent and will be leaving the Board with immediate effect to take up his new position.

He has been with Serica since 2006 and has served on the Board of Serica as Chief Operating Officer since 2012. The Company wishes him every success in his new position.

Tony Craven Walker, Chairman, commented:

"Mitch has been on the Board of Serica since September 2012 and, as Chief Operating Officer of the Company, has been instrumental in overseeing the change from a company focused on the North Sea and South East Asia to one with exploration interests in the Atlantic Margins and a growing focus on production in the Central North Sea.  We are sorry to see him go and wish him well in his new role."

Enquiries:

Serica Energy plc
Tony Craven Walker, Chairman & CEO	[e-mail]	[phone]
Peel Hunt
Richard Crichton	[e-mail]	[phone]
Charles Batten	[e-mail]	[phone]

Instinctif Partners
David Simonson	[e-mail]	[phone]
Anca Spiridon	[e-mail]	[phone]

NOTES TO EDITORS

Serica Energy is an oil and gas exploration and production company with exploration, development and production assets in the UK and Norway and exploration interests in the Atlantic margins offshore Ireland and West Africa.  The Company is in partnership with other companies in its licences offshore UK, Ireland, Morocco and Namibia.  Further information on the Company can be found at www.serica-energy.com.

The Company is listed on AIM under the ticker SQZ and is a designated foreign issuer on the TSX.  To receive Company news releases via email, please contact [e-mail] and specify "Serica press releases" in the subject line.

 

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