New Guinea Energy Ltd. announced the appointment of Mr. Michael Arnett to the position of Executive Chairman of NGE, effective immediately. Mr. Arnett has been chairman of NGE since 1 April 2009. He assumed the position of acting executive chairman of the company on 1 May 2014 upon the departure of the company's chief executive officer.

Mr. Arnett is a former Partner and member of the board of the National Resources Business Unit of Norton Rose Fulbright. His expertise is in the corporate and commercial areas in which resource and oil and gas work has been prominent for the last twenty- five years.