PetroNeft Resources plc announced that the Board has elected Eskil Jersing as Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company with immediate effect. Eskil is an Oil Industry Senior Executive with some 34 years' plus of Upstream experience in most of the world's key Petroleum basins and was previously the CEO of Wentworth Resources plc and CEO of Sterling Energy plc. He is currently New Business Advisor to Eburon Resources LLC, on the Advisory panel of Energilink ltd and a Director of Eskoil ltd.