London-based Terra Resources Plc (Frankfurt: T31) welcomes Dmitriy Salop to its management team. Salop joined Terra Resources as president effective immediately.

Salop brings to his new role as president a strong background in the management of oil and gas assets in Russia, logistics, transportation, and government relations. During the last 15 years, Salop has held roles as president, managing director and other executive positions in major Russian enterprises engaged in oil investing, production, trading, transportation, manufacturing and equipment sales.

Recognized as an accomplished business executive, Salop was deputy general director of Ogo-Profit, a Russian based enterprise developing Russian national strategic reserves of oil. He was a senior executive at RayzInvest, an exporter of resources within the Russian Federation. Subsequently, Salop was general director of Arco Petroleum, setting the firm's global business agenda in oil and gas investments, oil product trading, government agencies, vendor, and trading partners' policies. As an expert and executive at ZAO Logovaz, Salop was in charge for equipment realization and transportation, and, at Silver Capital, Salop managed export of industrial and oil field equipment.

Terra Resources acquired substantial oil and gas concessions in the North Caspian Region, Kalmykia, Russia. The licensed territories encompass approximately 85,000 acres.