Director/PDMR Shareholding

Soco International PLC
18 December 2007

                             SOCO International plc
                           ('SOCO' or the 'Company')

                          DIRECTORS/PDMR SHAREHOLDING


The Company was informed today by the Trustees of the SOCO Employee Benefit Plan
('the Trust') that on 18 December 2007, in accordance with the Company's Long
Term Incentive Plan, ('LTIP') and as a result of the exercise of relevant
nil-price LTIP option awards, the Trust released a total of 107,520 SOCO
International plc ordinary shares of £0.20 each ('Shares').  As a result of the
release of Shares, the Trust is now interested in 2,165,780 Shares, representing
2.98% of the total voting rights of the Company.

The Company further announces that on the same day, Mr Ed Story, Mr Roger Cagle,
Executive Directors of the Company, and Mrs Cynthia Cagle, a Person Discharging
Managerial Responsibility, exercised nil-price LTIP option awards in order to
comply with certain tax regulations requiring exercise by year end 2007, and
sold Shares at an average price of £20.32 to cover resulting tax obligations, as
further detailed below:


                                               Ed Story           Roger Cagle         Cynthia Cagle

TRANSACTIONS
Exercise of LTIP option awards                   48,440                33,920                25,160
Percentage of voting rights                       0.07%                 0.05%                 0.03%
Shares sold                                      17,700                13,950                10,350
Percentage of voting rights                       0.02%                 0.02%                 0.01%

RESULTING SITUATION
Shares held                                   1,567,988               469,443               281,583
Percentage of voting rights                       2.15%                 0.64%                 0.39%
Options held                                  2,743,234             1,530,057               859,449



ENQUIRIES:

SOCO International plc
Roger Cagle, Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer
Tel: [phone]

Pelham Public Relations
James Henderson, tel: [phone]
Alisdair Haythornthwaite, tel: [phone]




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