Armour Energy Limited announced William (Bill) Ovenden, oil and gas industry executive and geologist, has joined the company as a Board Advisor, effective 9 January 2023. Bill brings 38 years of experience, including periods of employment with ExxonMobil, Sun Oil and Ampolex Ltd. and 10 years of executive management at Santos Limited. As Senior Vice President Exploration and Subsurface at Santos until July 2022, Bill was the functional leader of all company subsurface technical staff, accountable for new ventures operations and implementation of the subsurface elements of the corporate management system, subsurface capability, skills and resource allocation, productivity governance and performance reporting, subsurface data management, subsurface tools and implementation of new technologies.

Bill holds a Bachelor of Science, Hons, majoring in Geology and Geophysics, from the University of Queensland,obtained in 1984.