Director's Dealing

RNS Number : 0379J

Rockhopper Exploration plc

27 November 2008

 



PRESS RELEASE

Director's Dealing

The Company announces that on Wednesday 26 November 2008 it received notification from Mr. Richard Visick, a non-executive director of the Company, that on the same date he transferred 47,700 ordinary shares of GBP0.01 each in the Company (“Ordinary Shares”) at a price of 20.01p per Ordinary Share to his IPS pension fund. Mr. Visick's beneficial interest in the Company has not changed as a result of this transaction.

Mr. Visick is interested in 17,982,443 Ordinary Shares representing 22.43 per cent. of the issued Ordinary Share capital of the Company. 192,500 of these Ordinary Shares, representing 0.24 per cent. of the issued Ordinary Share capital of the Company, are held in the name of Legal and Commercial Trustee Retirement Benefit Scheme (pension fund), of which Mr. Visick is a trustee and beneficiary. In addition, 512,508 of these Ordinary Shares, representing 0.64 per cent. of the issued Ordinary Share capital of the Company, are held in Mr. Visick's IPS pension fund, of which he is the sole beneficiary.

For further information, please contact:

Rockhopper Exploration plc         www.rockhopperexploration.co.uk 

Sam Moody - Managing Director       01722 414 419

Aquila Financial Ltd                         www.aquila-financial.com 

Peter Reilly                                         0118 979 4100

Teathers

Tom Hulme / Sebastian Jones          020 7131 3000

Notes to editors

www.rockhopperexploration.co.uk

The Rockhopper Group started trading in February 2004 to invest in and carry out an offshore oil exploration programme to the north of the Falkland Islands. The Group, floated on AIM in August 2005, has a 100 per cent. interest in four offshore production licences which cover approximately 3,800 sq. km. These licences have been granted by the Falkland Islands government.

 

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