NED Share Options & Executive Director LTIP Award

Afentra PLC

15 July 2024

 

15 July 2024

AFENTRA PLC

Grant of Non-Executive Director Share Options, and

Executive Director - Long Term Incentives Plan (LTIP) Award

Afentra plc ('Afentra' or the 'Company') (AIM: AET), the upstream oil and gas company focused on acquiring production and development assets in Africa, has conditionally granted, under the Executive Directors Long-Term Incentive Scheme, new ordinary shares in the Company in the form of nil-cost share options and has granted options over new ordinary shares to its Non-Executive Directors at an exercise price of 57.40 pence per Ordinary Shares. 

Both, the Executive Director Long Term Incentive Scheme and Non-Executive Director Market Value Options were approved by the shareholders at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 27 June 2024.

Grant of Non-Executive Director Share Options

The Non-Executive Director Market Value Options are a one-off award of market value share options which will vest in a single tranche three years from grant. Once vested, the Options will normally remain exercisable until the 10th anniversary of the grant.

Name	Position	Number of Options Granted
Jeffrey MacDonald	Independent non-executive Chairman	1,500,000
Thierry Tanoh	Independent non-executive Director	1,500,000
Gavin Wilson	Independent non-executive Director	1,500,000

Executive Director Long Term Incentives Award

Following a review of Executive Director long-term incentive provision to ensure individuals are appropriately incentivised over the next three years to 2027 and thereafter the Remuneration Committee has concluded that a conventional LTIP should be operated for Executive Directors going forward. Vesting of the Awards is determined by the Company's Total Shareholder Return ('TSR').

The following Directors of the Company have been granted conditional share awards under the Company's LTIP:

Name of PDMR	Title	Maximum number of Ordinary Shares (Total Award)
Paul McDade	Chief Executive Officer	1,453,287
Ian Cloke	Chief Operating Officer	887,543
Anastasia Deulina	Chief Financial Officer	887,543

For further information contact:

Afentra plc [phone]

Paul McDade, CEO

Anastasia Deulina, CFO

Buchanan (Financial PR) [phone]

Ben Romney

Barry Archer

George Pope

Peel Hunt LLP (Nominated Advisor and Joint Broker) [phone]

Richard Crichton

David McKeown

Emily Bhasin

Tennyson Securities (Joint Broker) [phone]

Peter Krens

About Afentra

Afentra plc (AIM:AET) is an upstream oil and gas company focused on opportunities in Africa. The Company's purpose is to support a responsible energy transition in Africa by establishing itself as a credible partner for divesting IOCs and Host Governments. Offshore Angola Afentra has a 30% non-operated interest in the producing Block 3/05 and a 21.33% non-operated interest in the adjacent development Block 3/05A in the Lower Congo Basin and a 40% non-operating interest in the exploration Block 23 in the Kwanza Basin. Afentra has a 34% carried interest in the Odewayne Block onshore southwestern Somaliland. 

Inside Information

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of article 7 of Regulation 2014/596/EU (which forms part of domestic UK law pursuant to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018) ('UK MAR'). Upon publication of this announcement, this inside information (as defined in UK MAR) is now considered to be in the public domain. For the purposes of UK MAR, the person responsible for arranging for the release of this announcement on behalf of Afentra is Paul McDade, Chief Executive Officer.

 

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