Hurricane Energy plc announced that Ms. Sandy Shaw has been appointed as Non-Executive Director of the company with immediate effect. Ms. Shaw has over thirty-five years of experience in the oil and gas industry, focused on legal and commercial roles. From 2008 until its takeover in 2013, she was Executive Director Corporate & Commercial, and Company Secretary of Valiant Petroleum, a company of which she was a founder and non-executive director. Ms. Shaw has held senior executive positions as group legal counsel and/or commercial director for a number of companies including Consort Resources, LASMO, Esso Petroleum and Marathon Oil. She is currently a non-executive director of Velocys plc, an AIM quoted renewable fuels company.