Hurricane Energy says that Nicholas Mardon-Taylor will retire as Chief Financial Officer and as a director of Hurricane, as planned, on 31 January 2016.

The process to identify a new Chief Financial Officer is underway and a further announcement will be made when appropriate.

Dr Robert Trice, Chief Executive, commented,'Nicholas has been with Hurricane from the start and throughout a period in which we have achieved very significant milestones which have set us on a path towards Lancaster field development. We are enormously grateful for his contributions and wish him very well in his retirement.'

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