Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. SGM Result (4453G)

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RNS Number : 4453G

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd.

05 August 2016

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5 August 2016

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited. (LSE: GKP)

("Gulf Keystone", "GKP" or "the Company")

Result of the Special General Meeting

The Board of Gulf Keystone Petroleum ("the Board") announces that the resolution proposed at the Company's Special General Meeting ("SGM") held today at 3pm (local time) in Geneva, was duly passed by shareholders.

The result of the SGM is as follows:

 
 Resolution            Votes         %       Votes        %      Total         Votes 
                        for                   against             Votes         withheld 
                                                                  cast 
--------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------- 
 1. THAT the 
  authorised 
  share capital 
  of the Company 
  be increased 
  by US$219,105,237 
  from 
  US$73,000,000 
  by the creation 
  of 21,910,523,665 
  new Common 
  Shares, ranking 
  pari passu 
  in all 
  respects as 
  one class 
  of shares 
  with the existing 
  Common Shares.       251,352,991   94.85   13,639,906   5.15   264,992,897   92,792 
--------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------- 
 

The total number of shares in issue at 5 August 2016 was 1,032,433,052.

The full text of the resolution may be found in the Notice of the Special General Meeting, which is available on the Company's website http://www.gulfkeystone.com/.

Enquiries:

 
 Gulf Keystone Petroleum:       [phone] 
 Anastasia Vvedenskaya, Head 
  of Investor Relations         [phone] 
 
 Celicourt Communications:       [phone] 
 Mark Antelme 
  Jimmy Lea 
 

Notes to Editors:

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (LSE: GKP) is a leading independent operator and producer in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the operator of the Shaikan field with current production capacity of 40,000 barrels of oil per day.

Disclaimer

This announcement contains certain forward-looking statements. These statements are made by the Company's Directors in good faith based on the information available to them up to the time of their approval of this announcement but such statements should be treated with caution due to inherent uncertainties, including both economic and business factors, underlying such forward-looking information. This announcement has been prepared solely to provide additional information to shareholders to assess the Group's strategies and the potential for those strategies to succeed. This announcement should not be relied on by any other party or for any other purpose.

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