Directors' Shareholding

RNS Number : 8901O

Hurricane Energy PLC

10 November 2016

 

This announcement contains inside information

10 November 2016

Hurricane Energy plc

("Hurricane" or 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, was informed on 10 November 2016 of the following purchases of Hurricane's ordinary shares of 0.1p each ("Ordinary Shares"), on 8 November 2016, by certain directors of the Company:

Director	Number of Ordinary Shares acquired	Resulting number of Ordinary Shares held	% of issued share capital
David Jenkins	3,338	203,338	0.017%
John van der Welle	4,159	154,159	0.013%

The Ordinary Shares were acquired at a price of 34 pence per share pursuant to the Company's Open Offer announced on 20 October 2016.

Contact details:

Hurricane Energy plc Dr Robert Trice, Chief Executive Officer Alistair Stobie, Chief Financial Officer	[phone]
Cenkos Securities plc Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker Derrick Lee/Nick Tulloch/Beth McKiernan	[phone]
Macquarie Capital (Europe) Limited Joint Broker Alex Reynolds / Guy de Freitas	[phone]
Vigo Communications Patrick d'Ancona/Ben Simons	[phone]

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 of P50 Prospective Resources on acreage it controls 100%.

Further information on Hurricane can be found at: www.hurricaneenergy.com.

 

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