Independent Oil & Gas PLC Issue of New Shares and Director Shareholding (7285J)
07 December 2018 - 3:28AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMIOG
RNS Number : 7285J
Independent Oil & Gas PLC
06 December 2018
6 December 2018
Independent Oil and Gas plc
Issue of New Shares and Director Shareholding
Independent Oil and Gas plc ('IOG' or the 'Company) (AIM:
IOG.L), the development and production focused oil and gas company,
has today issued a total of 162,114 ordinary shares ('New Ordinary
Shares') in the capital of the Company.
On 5 December 2018, a notice was submitted by Mark Routh, the
Chairman of the Company, to exercise 162,114 1p options over
Ordinary Shares awarded to him, pursuant to a share option
agreement dated 19 November 2014.
The Company has applied to the London Stock Exchange for
admission of the New Ordinary Shares to trade on AIM ('Admission').
Admission is expected to occur on 12 December 2018. Following
Admission there will be 126,868,156 Ordinary Shares in issue.
Accordingly, this number may be used by shareholders as the
denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if
they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their
interest in the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency
Rules.
This exercise of options increases Mark Routh's holding in the
Company from 7,236,956 Ordinary Shares, being 5.71% of the current
number of shares in issue to 7,399,070 Ordinary Shares being 5.83%
of the enlarged share capital of the Company.
Mark Routh has informed the Company that it his intention to
hold this number of shares in IOG and will not sell down any shares
in the Company to meet the personal tax liability that crystallises
upon exercise of these options.
1. Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
/ person closely associated
a) Name Mark Routh
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2. Reason for the Notification
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a) Position/status Chairman/Director
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b) Initial notification/Amendment Amendment
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3. Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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a) Name Independent Oil and Gas plc
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b) LEI 2138005OA2NLZS2NRT74
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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
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a) Description of the Exercise of options over ordinary
Financial instrument, shares
type of instrument
Identification code GB00BF49WF64
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b) Nature of the transaction Exercise of options
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c) Price(s) and volume(s) Price(s) Volume(s)
1p 162,114
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d) Aggregated information: n/a
* Aggregated volume
* Price
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e) Date of the transaction 6 December 2018
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f) Place of the transaction London Stock Exchange, AIM Market
(XLON)
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-ENDS-
Certain information communicated in this announcement was, prior
to its publication, inside information for the purposes of Article
7 of Regulation 596/2014.
Enquiries:
Independent Oil and Gas plc
Andrew Hockey (CEO)
James Chance (CFO) +44 (0) 20 3879 0510
finnCap Ltd
Christopher Raggett
Anthony Adams +44 (0) 20 7220 0500
Peel Hunt LLP
Richard Crichton
David McKeown +44 (0) 20 7418 8900
Camarco
Georgia Edmonds/ Tom Huddart/ Monique Perks +44 (0) 20 3757 4980
Notes
About Independent Oil and Gas:
IOG owns substantial low risk, high value gas reserves in the UK
Southern North Sea. The Company is targeting a 2P peak production
rate of 114 MMCF/d (c. 20,000 Boe/d) from its substantial Core
Project (2P gas Reserves of 302 BCF) via an efficient hub strategy.
In addition to the independently verified 2P reserves, IOG now has
independently verified 2C contingent gas resources of 108 BCF in
Goddard and best estimate unrisked prospective gas resources of 202
BCF in Harvey and Goddard. Alongside this IOG continues to pursue
value accretive acquisitions to generate significant shareholder
returns. All IOG's licences and the Thames Pipeline are owned 100%
and operated by IOG.
Further information can be found on
www.independentoilandgas.com
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