UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  November 4, 2015

 

SAMSON OIL & GAS LIMITED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Australia		001-33578		N/A
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
Level 16, AMP Building, 140 St Georges Terrace Perth, Western Australia 6000
(Address of principal executive offices)				(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:  +61 8 9220 9830

 

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

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ITEM 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

 

On November 4, 2015, Samson Oil & Gas Limited (the “Company”) appointed Mr. Neil Fearis to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) effective immediately. Mr. Fearis filled the vacancy created by the departure of Mr. Keith Skipper, which was previously announced in a Form 8-K filed on November 4, 2015. Mr. Fearis does not have a family relationship with any member of the Board nor any executive officer of the Company, and has not been a participant or had any interest in any transaction with the Company that is reportable under Item 404(d) of Regulation S-K. Mr. Fearis has served as the Australian legal counsel to the Company. To the Company’s knowledge, there is no arrangement or understanding between any of its directors, officers and Mr. Fearis pursuant to which he was selected to serve as a director of the Company. Mr. Fearis has not been named to any of the Board committees at this time.

 

A press release announcing Mr. Fearis’s appointment is attached to this Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.1.

 

 

ITEM 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.		Description
99.1		Press Release of Samson Oil & Gas Limited dated November 4, 2015.

 

 

SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: November 10, 2015
	SAMSON OIL & GAS LIMITED
	By:	/s/ Robyn Lamont
		Robyn Lamont
		Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

EXHIBIT 99.1

 

 

 

BOARD CHANGES

 

Denver 1600 hours November 4^th, 2015, Perth 0700 hours November 5^th, 2015

 

The Directors of Samson Oil & Gas Limited (“the Company”) (ASX:SSN) wish to announce the appointment of Mr Neil Fearis as a Non-Executive Director of the Company.

 

Mr Fearis is a leading corporate and commercial lawyer in Western Australia specalising in mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings and corporate reconstructions, with a particular focus on the mining and resources sector. He has been in practice for more than 35 years and worked as a commercial lawyer in London, Sydney and Perth. He provides corporate and commercial legal advice to public company clients and has advised on some of the largest corporate transactions ever undertaken in Australia.

 

He has been a Director of a number of ASX and TSX-listed companies, primarily though not exclusively in the resources sector. He is currently Non-Executive Chairman of Tiger Resources Limited and serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Boards of Jacka Resources Limited and Golden Cross Resources Limited.

 

Mr Fearis’s appointment to the Board follows the retirement of Mr Keith Skipper as a director at the Company’s Annual General Meeting held on 29 October 2015.

 

For and on behalf of the Board of

SAMSON OIL & GAS LIMITED

 

TERRY BARR

Managing Director

Cell Phone: 970 389 5047