Tap Oil Limited announced that Non-executive Director, Mr. Chris Newton has been appointed as Chairman of the company, effective immediately. Chris has had a 39-year career in oil and gas covering the spectrum of the industry - from exploration, development, production and petroleum economics to strategic planning, business development and senior leadership. Chris has spent more than 25 years in senior resource industry roles in South East Asia including as Managing Director of Fletcher Challenge in Brunei and of Shell Deepwater Borneo, President of Santos' Indonesian operations, and CEO of EMP. In 2010 Chris co-founded Singapore based Risco Energy and successfully drove Risco's operations and business development functions. Chris is also a Non-executive Director of ASX listed Lion Energy Ltd. and remains the oil and gas advisor to the Jakarta-based Castle Asia Group.