The Board of Elk Petroleum Limited announced the appointment of Mr. James (Jim) M. Piccone as an Executive Director of the Company. The appointment is effective from 2 February 2018. Mr. Piccone is an experienced US resource & energy executive with a proven track record of successfully building companies in the US upstream and midstream oil & gas energy sectors. He was retained by Elk USA to be its CEO from 1 January 2018.