Issue of Shares and Total Voting Rights

RNS Number : 1917C

Capital Drilling Limited

15 January 2015

 



For Immediate Release

15 January 2015

Capital Drilling Limited

("Capital Drilling" or the "Company")

Issue of Shares and Total Voting Rights

Capital Drilling Limited (CAPD: LN), the emerging and developing markets focused drilling company, today announces that it has issued 10,881 new common shares pursuant to terms of the Company's employee share schemes. The new common shares will rank pari passu with the existing common shares.

Following the share issue and allotment, the Company's issued share capital will comprise 134,603,681 common shares of $0.0001 each. This figure may be used by shareholders as denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, Capital Drilling under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

For further information please access Capital Drilling's website www.capdrill.com or contact:

Capital Drilling Limited                                                                               [phone]

Jamie Boyton, Executive Chairman                     

Liberum Capital Limited                                                                            [phone]

Clayton Bush                                                   

Richard Bootle

Buchanan                                                                                                      [phone]

Bobby Morse                                                    

Gabriella Clinkard

About Capital Drilling

Capital Drilling provides specialised drilling services to mineral exploration and mining companies in emerging and developing markets, for exploration, development and production stage projects. The Company currently owns and operates a fleet of 96 drilling rigs with established operations in Chile, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mauritania, Tanzania, Solomon Islands and Zambia. The Group's corporate headquarters is in Singapore and it has its administrative offices for South America in Santiago.

 

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