Empire Energy Group Limited announced the appointment of Mr. Alex Underwood as an Executive of Empire and a Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Imperial Oil & Gas Pty Limited ("Imperial"). The addition of Mr. Underwood to the Company's executive management team will support the Executive Chairman and the Imperial operations team with the strategic development of the Company's McArthur Basin assets located in the Northern Territory, Australia, as well as assisting the Company to achieve its underlying objective of restructuring its USA balance sheet by the acquisition of additional producing assets. Mr. Underwood has nearly 15 years of specialist upstream oil and gas investing and financing experience. Mr. Underwood's former experience includes working for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Singapore (Director, Natural Resources 2015 - 2017) and Macquarie Bank, in Sydney and Singapore (Associate Director, Energy Markets Division 2006 - 2015). Prior to this he worked for BHP Billiton Petroleum in Perth and Melbourne.