TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd. announced the appointment of Gregory K. Renwick to its Board of Directors. Renwick is a seasoned global petroleum executive with more than 35 years of technical and managerial experience in the upstream sector. He began his career in 1974 as a geophysical interpreter.

Mr. Renwick worked at Mobil for 25 years in roles of increasing responsibility. He served as business development manager in the Commonwealth of Independent States, and under his leadership Mobil successfully acquired upstream assets in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. He also established Mobil Oil Turkmenistan and executed the first production sharing contract in the country.

Most recently, Mr. Renwick served as president and chief executive officer of East West Petroleum Corp., which targeted conventional and unconventional oil and gas including operations in Romania and a partnership in the Ukraine, from 2010 to 2013 and as the director of business development for Dana Gas PJSC in the United Arab Emirates from 2007 to 2010. He also served on the board of North American Oil and Gas Corporation from 2012 to 2013.