Prospex Oil and Gas PLC Director Dealing and Award of Options (7384S)

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RNS Number : 7384S

Prospex Oil and Gas PLC

23 December 2016

Prospex Oil and Gas Plc / Index: AIM / Epic: PXOG / Sector: Oil and Gas

23 December 2016

Prospex Oil and Gas Plc ('Prospex' or the 'Company')

Director Dealing

Award of Options

Prospex Oil and Gas Plc, the AIM quoted investment company, announces that following the appointment of Mr James Smith as Non-Executive Director to the Board (see announcement dated 22 December 2016), he has today been awarded options to subscribe for 1,436,000 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Share") at an exercise price of 1.1 pence per Ordinary Share and vesting when the price of an Ordinary Share closes at 5 pence or more for 5 consecutive days. Mr Smith has no other interest in Ordinary Shares.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.

 
 1.   Details of the person discharging managerial 
       responsibilities / person closely associated 
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 a)   Name                             James Smith 
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 2.   Reason for the Notification 
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 a)   Position/status                  Non-Executive Director 
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 b)   Initial notification/amendment   Initial notification 
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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                             Prospex Oil & Gas plc 
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 b)   LEI                              213800NY9RH8O1B72D27 
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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 
---  --------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Description of the               Ordinary shares of 1 pence 
       Financial instrument,            each 
       type of instrument 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------ 
      Identification code              GB00BW4NPC58 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------ 
 b)   Nature of the Transaction        Grant of options to acquire 
                                        shares 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------ 
 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)            Price(s)   Volume(s) 
                                        ---------  ----------------- 
                                         1.1p       1,436,000 Shares 
                                        ---------  ----------------- 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------ 
 d)   Aggregated information           n/a 
       Aggregated volume 
       Price 
---  -------------------------------  ------------------------------ 
 e)   Date of the transaction          23 December 2016 
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 f)   Place of the transaction         Outside a trading venue 
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The information communicated in this announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014.

* * ENDS * *

For further information visit www.prospexoilandgas.com or contact the following:

 
Edward Dawson        Prospex Oil and Gas    Tel: +44 (0) 20 
                      Plc                    3586 1009 
Rory Murphy          Strand Hanson Limited  Tel: +44 (0) 20 
 Ritchie Balmer                              7409 3494 
 Jack Botros 
Jon Belliss          Beaufort Securities    Tel: +44 (0) 20 
                      Limited                7382 8300 
Lucy Williams        Peterhouse Corporate   Tel: +44 (0) 20 
 Charles Goodfellow   Finance                7469 0932 
 Eran Zucker 
Frank Buhagiar       St Brides Partners     Tel: +44 (0) 20 
 Charlotte Page       Ltd                    7236 1177 
 Grace-Anne Marius 
 

Notes

Prospex Oil and Gas Plc is an AIM quoted investment company focussed on high impact onshore and shallow offshore European opportunities with short timelines to production. The Company's management is looking to repeat the success it has had in the past by acquiring undervalued projects with multiple, tangible value trigger points that can be realised within 12 months of acquisition and then applying low cost re-evaluation techniques to identify and de-risk prospects.

The Company is currently focussed on its 49% interest in Hutton Poland, which holds the 1,150 sq km Kolo licence inside the Polish Central Basin. Kolo contains multiple targets, including the Boleslaw prospect, where drilling commenced in December 2016. Boleslaw's favourable economics were highlighted in a Competent Person's Report ('CPR') by AGR TRACS, which assigned an Expected Monetary Value ("EMV") (net to Prospex) at 1 January 2016 of between US$7.1m and US$12.2m (see announcement dated 26 May 2016 for further details).

The CPR was based on production scenarios of 3,333-6,666 boepd from a single well, demonstrating that the project can generate positive returns in many scenarios.

The Company maintains an active growth strategy and continues to assess additional acquisition opportunities across Europe.

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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