Hurricane Energy PLC Posting of Circular and Notice of General Meeting (1216K)

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Hurricane Energy PLC

04 July 2017

Posting of Circular and Notice of General Meeting

4 July 2017

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, INCLUDING THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN, IS RESTRICTED AND IS NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO OR FROM THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN OR THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED BY THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOR IS IT INTENDED THAT IT WILL BE SO APPROVED.

Hurricane Energy plc

("Hurricane" or the "Company")

Posting of Circular and Notice of General Meeting

Hurricane confirms that, further to the announcements on 29 June 2017 and 30 June 2017 regarding the Fundraising, copies of the Circular and Notice of General Meeting together with the Form of Proxy, have been sent to eligible Shareholders today.

The Circular and Notice of General Meeting will shortly be available on the Company's website at www.hurricaneenergy.com.

The General Meeting will be held on 21 July 2017 at the offices of Dentons UKMEA LLP at One Fleet Place, London, EC4M 7RA at 10.00 a.m. for the purpose of passing certain Resolutions in relation to the proposed Placing and the Convertible Bond Offering.

Hurricane has received irrevocable undertakings from Kerogen Capital, and from the Directors who hold Ordinary Shares, to vote in favour of the Resolutions in respect of their respective entire holdings of Existing Ordinary Shares representing, in aggregate, approximately 31.14 per cent. of the Existing Ordinary Shares.

The expected timetable set out in the Company's announcements of 29 June 2017 and 30 June 2017 remains unchanged.

Capitalised terms in this Announcement have the same meaning given to them as defined in Hurricane's announcement dated 29 June 2017 unless the context otherwise requires.

For further information, please contact:

 
                                               [phone] 
 Hurricane Energy plc                                       820 
 Dr Robert Trice (Chief Executive 
  Officer) / Alistair Stobie 
  (Chief Financial Officer) 
 
                                                [phone] 
 Cenkos Securities plc                                     6939 
 Nominated Adviser, Joint Bookrunner 
 Nick Tulloch / Derrick Lee 
 
 Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited             [phone] 
 Joint Bookrunner 
 Callum Stewart / Nicholas 
  Rhodes / Ashton Clanfield 
 
 Evercore Partners International 
  LLP                                       [phone] 
 Financial Adviser 
 Jim Renwick / Gent Kadare 
 
 Vigo Communications                        [phone] 
 Public Relations Adviser               [e-mail] 
 Patrick d'Ancona / Ben Simons 
 
 

The securities referred to in this Announcement have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended ("Securities Act"), and may not be offered, sold or transferred, directly or indirectly, within the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States. No public offering of the securities referred to in this Announcement is being made in the United States, United Kingdom or elsewhere.

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