Director Dealing – Issue of Stock Options

JERSEY, Channel Islands, Dec. 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Serinus Energy plc (“Serinus”, “SEN” or the “Company”) (AIM:SENX, WSE:SEN), announces that the Company’s Board of Directors have approved the granting of 6,203,000 stock options to senior executives and staff employees of the of the Company at a strike price of £0.1475 per share option. Certain persons discharging managerial responsibilities were recipients of stock option as detailed at the end of this announcement.

About Serinus
Serinus is an international upstream oil and gas exploration and production company that owns and operates projects in Tunisia and Romania.

For further information, please refer to the Serinus website (www.serinusenergy.com) or contact the following:

Serinus Energy plc                                                                                  Jeffrey Auld, Chief Executive Officer Calvin Brackman, Vice President, External Relations & Strategy	[phone]
Numis Securities Limited   (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) John Prior Paul Gillam Ben Stoop	[phone]
GMP FirstEnergy  (Joint Broker) Hugh Sanderson Jonathan Wright	[phone]
Camarco  (Financial PR) Billy Clegg Owen Roberts	[phone]
TBT i Wspólnicy                                                                                                    (Financial PR - Warsaw) Piotr Talarek	[phone]

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Translation: This news release has been translated into Polish from the English original.

	1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated Reason for the notification
	a)	Name	Jeffrey Auld
			Tracy Heck
			Calvin Brackman
			Alexandra Damascan
	2	Reason for the notification
	a)	Position/status	Jeffrey Auld (Chief Executive Officer)
			Tracy Heck (Chief Financial Officer)
			Calvin Brackman (VP, External Relations & Strategy)
			Alexandra Damascan (President, Serinus Energy Romania)
	b)	Initial notification	Initial Notification
		/Amendment
	3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
	a)	Name	Serinus Energy Plc
	b)	LEI	549300W183KUX62DVI32
	4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
	a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument	Ordinary Shares of no par value
		Identification code	JE00BF4N9R98
	b)	Nature of the transaction	Grant of options to senior executives
	c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	PDMR	Volume	Strike price (GBP)
			Jeffrey Auld	2,500,000	0.1475
			Tracy Heck	2,200,000	0.1475
			Calvin Brackman	700,000	0.1475
			Alexandra Damascan	230,000	0.1475

	d)	Aggregated information	PDMR	Volume	Total aggregate value at strike price (GBP)
			Jeffrey Auld	2,500,000	368,750
		- Aggregated volume	Tracy Heck	2,200,000	324,500
			Calvin Brackman	700,000	103,250
		- Price	Alexandra Damascan	230,000	33,925
	e)	Date of the transaction	03 December 2018
	f)	Place of the transaction	Off Market