Director's Dealings

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc / Index: AIM / Epic: EOG / Sector: Oil & Gas

27 July 2016

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc (‘Europa’ or ‘the Company’)

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the AIM listed oil and gas exploration, development and production company focused on Europe, announces that Christian William Ahlefeldt-Laurvig, Non-Executive Director of the Company has purchased 9,500,000 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 4 pence per Ordinary Share (the “Purchase”).

Following the Purchase, Mr Ahlefeldt is beneficially interested in 35,002,442 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 14.29% of the Company’s issued share capital.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Christian William Ahlefeldt-Laurvig
2.	Reason for the Notification
a)	Position/status	Director
b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc
b)	LEI	Pending
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 1p
	Identification code	GB00B03CJS30
b)	Nature of the transaction	Purchase of shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 4p 2,500,000 4p 7,000,000
d)	Aggregated information: ·      Aggregated volume ·      Price	9,500,000 ordinary shares of 1 pence purchased at 4 pence per ordinary share
e)	Date of the transaction	22 July 2016  27 July 2016
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange, AIM Market (XLON)

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For further information please visit www.europaoil.com or contact:

Hugh Mackay	Europa	+ 44 (0) 20 7224 3770
Phil Greenhalgh	Europa	+ 44 (0) 20 7224 3770
Matt Goode	finnCap Ltd	+ 44 (0) 20 7220 0500
Simon Hicks	finnCap Ltd	+ 44 (0) 20 7220 0500
Frank Buhagiar	St Brides Partners Ltd	+ 44 (0) 20 7236 1177
Susie Geliher	St Brides Partners Ltd	+ 44 (0) 20 7236 1177

Notes

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc has a diversified portfolio of multi-stage hydrocarbon assets that includes production, exploration and development interests, in countries that are politically stable, have transparent licensing processes, and offer attractive terms.  In 2015 Europa produced 141 boepd.  Its highly prospective exploration projects include the Wressle development (targeting production start-up later in 2016 at up to 500 bopd gross) in the UK; 100% owned gas exploration prospect (107 bcf) and appraisal project (CPR 277 bcf) in onshore France, a joint venture with Vermilion Energy also in onshore France; and seven licences offshore Ireland with the potential to host gross mean un-risked prospective and indicative resources of more than 4 billion barrels oil and 1.5 tcf gas across all seven licences.