Northern Petroleum announced that Graham Heard, the company's Exploration and Technical Director, has given notice of his intention to retire from the Company. Graham will retire from employment and step down from the board at the end of 2014. The company also announced that Paul Lafferty will join the senior management of the company as Chief Operating Officer later September 2014.

Paul joins the Company from the exploration and production division of E.ON, where he held the role of General manager of Operations, with responsibility for global production operations.