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Desire Petroleum (LON:DES) plc (UNDER REVIEW) (DES, 18.75p, ? 4.90%) announced that Graeme Thomson, FCA, will join the Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee with effect from today. Graeme has over 30 years public company experience and has held a number of senior positions in the oil and gas industry. He was Finance Director & Company Secretary for seven years at Dragon Oil plc and its predecessor companies. He was also a co-founder of Sterling Energy plc and spent nine years as its Finance Director, Company Secretary and was its Chief Executive Officer for his last two years with the Company until he left in December 2009. Since then, Graeme has been advising a number of oil and gas companies on their corporate finance, accounting, commercial and strategic affairs.

Salamander Energy (LON:SMDR) plc (SMDR, 281.10p, ? 0.57%) announced the completion of drilling operations on the Dao Ruang structure, Block L15/50, onshore Northeast Thailand. The Dao Ruang-3 appraisal well ("DR-3") has been drilled to a total depth of 1,800 metres true vertical depth sub-sea in order to test the pre-Tertiary carbonate section on the northern flank of the Dao Ruang structure. The well intersected a number of zones of interest with associated gas shows and a full suite of wire-line logs have been acquired. Analysis of all available well data suggests that DR-3 would have limited potential as a producer from the current wellbore. Due to this, and wellbore stability reasons, a decision has been made not to flow test the well. The DR-3 well is currently in the process of being plugged and abandoned. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, the Aquamarine Driller jack up rig that will be used to drill the Cat Ba-1X prospect in Block 101/100-04, Offshore Northern Vietnam, is due to imminently commence mobilisation to the well site. The Cat Ba-1X well is expected to spud before the end of July 2011.

Tullow Oil (LON:TLW) plc (TLW, 1269p, ? 2.61%) provided a drilling update. Kosmos Energy, the operator of the Makore-1 exploration well offshore Ghana, in which Tullow is a 22.896% partner announced today that the company's Makore-1 exploration well on the West Cape Three Points Block offshore the Republic of Ghana encountered 37 meters (121 feet) of good-quality Campanian-age…

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