Carbon Energy Limited announced the appointment of Bryan O'Donnell to the position of Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director to lead the company during its next exciting growth phase. Mr. O'Donnell is a seasoned oil & gas executive and brings a wealth of commercial, operating and project development experience to Carbon Energy at this critical point in its next phase of growth which is targeted to deliver new gas in 2018 to the commercial demonstration project by Beijing JinHong New Energy Co. Ltd, the joint venture between the Carbon Energy group and its partner Beijing JinHong Investment Co.

Ltd. (`JinHong Joint Venture'). Mr. O'Donnell has extensive commercial and upstream petroleum development expertise from over 30 years managing oil, gas and CSG developments for ExxonMobil, Oil Search, Arrow Energy, Westside Corporation and BHP Petroleum. Prior to joining the Carbon Energy Limited, Mr. O'Donnell was part of the Westside Executive Team as the Development Manager responsible for the Meridian Development.