EnQuest PLC Result of AGM (2840G)

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RNS Number : 2840G

EnQuest PLC

25 May 2017

25 May 2017

EnQuest PLC ("EnQuest" or the "Company")

Voting results of the Annual General Meeting held on 25 May 2017

EnQuest announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held today, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting and put to the meeting were passed by the requisite majority by way of a poll.

The results of the poll are set out below. The number of ordinary shares in issue was 1,159,398,871.

 
 Resolution                       For *         %        Against      %        Withheld 
                                                                                ** 
-------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Annual Report 
          & Accounts 
 1        2016                    599,708,324   98.11%   11,569,444   1.89%    3,026,054 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Re-election 
 2        of Jock Lennox          541,250,061   89.81%   61,418,918   10.19%   11,634,843 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Re-election 
          of 
 3        Amjad Bseisu            604,648,470   98.46%   9,446,014    1.54%     209,338 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Re-election 
          of 
          Jonathan 
 4        Swinney                 612,955,747   99.81%   1,138,972    0.19%     209,103 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Re-election 
          of 
 5        Helmut Langanger        587,612,040   95.69%   26,481,322   4.31%     210,460 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Re-election 
          of Philip 
 6        Nolan                   613,637,395   99.92%    466,394     0.08%     200,033 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Re-election 
          of 
 7        Philip Holland          613,637,276   99.92%    465,069     0.08%     201,477 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Election 
 8        of Carl Hughes          613,020,705   99.82%   1,081,558    0.18%     201,559 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Election 
 9        of Neil McCulloch       613,379,007   99.88%    718,760     0.12%     206,055 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Re-appointment 
 10       of auditor              595,867,318   97.04%   18,198,286   2.96%     238,218 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Authority 
          to set auditor 
 11       remuneration            612,781,163   99.81%   1,196,556    0.19%     268,850 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Directors' 
          Remuneration 
 12       Policy                  597,533,995   97.31%   16,505,214   2.69%     264,613 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Directors' 
          Remuneration 
 13       Report                  604,468,120   98.44%   9,569,982    1.56%     265,720 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Political 
 14       Donations               592,435,105   98.93%   6,385,509    1.07%    15,483,208 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Authority 
          to allot 
 15       shares                  518,345,543   84.41%   95,704,023   15.59%    254,256 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Disapplication 
          of pre-emption 
 16***    rights                  590,672,533   96.19%   23,364,388   3.18%     266,901 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Further disapplication 
          of pre-emption 
 17***    rights                  551,057,398   89.75%   62,951,375   10.25%    294,799 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Authority 
          to purchase 
 18***    own shares              597,620,319   97.32%   16,425,747   2.68%     257,756 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Changes to 
 19       PSP                     597,492,927   97.32%   16,460,235   2.68%     350,660 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Changes to 
 20       RSP                     597,537,045   99.80%   1,194,019    0.20%    15,572,758 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
         Changes to 
 21       DBSP                    613,429,387   99.91%    524,915     0.09%     349,520 
------  -----------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -------  ----------- 
 

* Includes discretionary votes

** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted for the purposes of the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution

*** Indicates a Special Resolution

The full text of each resolution can be found in the Notice of Meeting which is available on the Company's website, www.enquest.com

The Company has today submitted to the National Storage Mechanism copies of the Resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting and these will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

ENDS

For further information please contact:

EnQuest PLC Tel: [phone]

Stefan Ricketts (Company Secretary)

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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