Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 3335B

Hurricane Energy PLC

16 June 2016

 

Embargoed: 0700hrs 16 June 2016

Hurricane Energy plc

("Hurricane" the "Company")

Directors' Shareholdings

Hurricane Energy plc (AIM: HUR.L), the UK-based oil and gas company focused on hydrocarbon resources in naturally fractured basement reservoirs, announces that the Company was informed on 15 June 2016 that on 14 and 15 June 2016 Sanne Fiduciary Services Limited, in its capacity as trustee of the Hurricane Energy Employee Benefit Trust, sold 517,653 ordinary shares of 0.1p each ("Ordinary Shares") at an average price of 17.28 pence per share on behalf of the directors listed below solely to satisfy the payment of tax arising from the issue of bonus shares to them as announced on 8 June 2016. The aggregate of their beneficial holdings are now as follows:

Name	Number of Ordinary Shares	%
Dr Robert Trice	26,483,010	2.69%
Neil Platt	779,741	0.08%

The EBT has been instructed by the aforementioned directors to sell a sufficient number of shares to cover their personal tax liability arising as a consequence of their award of bonus shares on 8 June 2016. The Company anticipates making further announcements following any such directors' dealings in due course.

Contacts:

Hurricane Energy plc	Daniel Jankes Company Secretary	[phone]
Cenkos Securities plc	Nominated Adviser and Broker Derrick Lee/Nick Tulloch/Beth McKiernan	[phone]
Vigo Communications	Public Relations Patrick d'Ancona/Ben Simons	+44  (0)20 7830 9704 [e-mail]

About Hurricane

Hurricane is an oil and gas company focused on hydrocarbon resources in naturally fractured basement reservoirs. The Company's focus is to discover, appraise and develop oil reserves in basement rock. Hurricane has already successfully discovered substantial volumes of oil on the UKCS. The Company has 444-470 mmboe of 2C Contingent Resources and 432-442 mmboe P50 Prospective Resources on acreage it controls 100%.

In 2014, Hurricane drilled and tested an appraisal well on its Lancaster oil field West of Shetland. The highly successful operations demonstrated that the Company could produce commercial quantities of oil from Lancaster. The Company will undertake a further well programme on Lancaster, incorporating a Pilot well and a Horizontal Sidetrack well as part of a continuous drilling programme in the summer of 2016.  The Horizontal Sidetrack well is designed to refine the Lancaster Contingent Resource range (currently 62 - 456 mmboe), will provide a second future production well and will provide new information to help optimally plan the Lancaster field development. The Pilot well objectives are to confirm the depth of Oil Water Contact, evaluate the properties of a potential aquifer to establish how supportive it is of production and evaluate the overlying Victory sandstone resource range.

 

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