Global Petroleum Ltd. announced that Dr. Robert Arnott will be joining the Board as non-executive Chairman with effect from 4 October 2012. As announced on 30 April 2012, that a successor has been found the former Chairman, Mr. Mark Savage, will step down from the Board with immediate effect. The company is also announced the appointment of Christopher Lewis who joins as Exploration Manager, also with effect from 4 October 2012.

Rob Arnott is a British citizen with almost 30 years oil and gas experience in a career that started in the petroleum industry with Shell International, then progressed to Investment Banking where he worked as an equity analyst for HSBC Investment Bank, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs International before subsequently moving back to the upstream industry. Dr. Arnott is currently a Director of AIM quoted Petroceltic International PLC and private company Spring Energy AS, having spent five years with the Norwegian exploration and production company DNO UK Ltd. He is also a Research Advisor to the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies. Chris Lewis has 20 years of oil and gas experience and has held senior executive positions managing E&P operations in Africa and Europe with a particular expertise in basin evaluation and prospect generation, and exploration and subsurface management.

He formed Zeta Petroleum in 2005 and built a portfolio of assets in Romania including a 2P reserve of 51 billion cubic feet of gas, and undertook evaluation of offshore acreage along the West African margin from Ghana to Sierra Leone.