Bahamas Petroleum Company PLC Result of EGM and Completion of Placing (1327L)

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RNS Number : 1327L

Bahamas Petroleum Company PLC

14 July 2017

14(th) July 2017

Bahamas Petroleum Company plc ("BPC" or the "Company")

Result of EGM and Completion of Placing

Bahamas Petroleum Company, the oil and gas exploration company with significant prospective resources in licences in The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is pleased to announce that the resolution put to shareholders at the Extraordinary General Meeting held earlier today was duly passed.

As a result, the Company will issue 170,000,000 new Ordinary Shares of 0.002p ("Ordinary Shares"), inclusive of the participation of the Board and Management (20,000,000 Ordinary Shares), raising GBP1.7 million, being the conditional tranche of the previously announced Placing. The new shares will be admitted to trading on or about 19 July 2017.

When coupled with the firm placing of GBP1.1 million comprising 110,000,000 new Ordinary Shares admitted to trading on 21 June 2017, the total raised in the Placing will amount to GBP2.8 million before expenses through the issue of 280,000,000 new Ordinary Shares at a price of 1 pence each. Proceeds of the Placing will be used to fund the Company as it seeks to complete a farm-in or other financing sufficient to enable drilling of an exploration well on the Company's southern licences.

Once the new shares are placed on or about 19 July 2017, the Company's issued share capital will consist of 1,510,479,096 Ordinary Shares, with each Ordinary Share carrying the right to one vote. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. The figure of 1,510,479,096 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders in the Company, as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules ("DTRs").

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For further information, please contact:

 
 Bahamas Petroleum Company plc        Tel: +44 (0) 
  Simon Potter, Chief Executive        1624 647 882 
  Officer 
 Strand Hanson Limited - Nomad        Tel: +44 (0) 
  Rory Murphy / James Spinney          20 7409 3494 
 Shore Capital Stockbrokers Limited   Tel: +44 (0) 
  - Broker                             207 408 4090 
  Jerry Keen / Toby Gibbs 
 CAMARCO                              Tel: +44 (0) 
  Billy Clegg / Gordon Poole /         20 3757 4983 
  James Crothers 
 

Notes to editors:

Bahamas Petroleum Company is an oil and gas exploration company with 100% owned offshore licences exclusively focused on the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The Company has significant prospective resources, which have been de-risked through both extensive 2D and 3D seismic. The four Southern Licences, with a newly agreed well obligation date of April 2017, run until 2Q 2018 when the licences may be renewed a further two times. The Company is intent on delivering safe and environmentally responsible exploration.

www.bpcplc.com

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