David Sturt has become president of PetroNeft Resources PLC, Dublin, replacing Karl Johnson, vice-president of operations, who became interim CEO last year after a retirement (OGJ Online, Nov. 20, 2018).
Sturt has been a nonexecutive director of the company, which has oil and gas interests in the Tomsk region of Russia, since 2016. He has been a senior vice-president of Azimum Ltd. since 2012 and has served on the boards of other countries with interests in Russia.
He earlier was a founding shareholder of VistaTex Energy, a US oil and gas producer sold in 2014 to Dome Energy.
