Altona Energy Plc - Director/PDMR Shareholding

                                                                                                                       11 September 2017                                                                                                                                    

Altona Energy Plc

(“Altona” or “the Company”)

Director/PDMR Shareholding

The Board of Altona (AIM: ANR) was notified on 8 September 2017 that, on the same day, Phillip Sutherland, a Non-Executive Director of the Company, purchased 500,000 ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the Company at 0.27p per share.  Mr Sutherland’s interest in the Company is now 1,440,564 shares.

1	Details  of  the  person   discharging  managerial   responsibilities I person closely associated
a)	Name	Phillip Sutherland
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Non-Executive Director
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details  of  the  issuer,   emission   allowance  market   participant, auction   platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Altona Energy plc
b)	LEI
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 financial  instrument, type of instrument	Ordinary shares of 0.1p each
	Identification code	GB00B06GJT32
b)	Nature of the transaction	Purchase of ordinary shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s)  0.27p  500,000
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume  - Price	500,000 0.27p
e)	Date of the transaction	8 August 2017
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange (AIM)

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For further information, please visit www.altonaenergy.com or contact:

Altona Energy plc Qinfu Zhang, Executive Chairman	[phone]
Leander (Financial PR) Christian Taylor- Wilkinson	[phone]
Northland Capital Partners Ltd (Nomad and Broker) Matthew Johnson / Gerry Beaney (Corporate Finance) John Howes (Corporate Broking)	[phone]

About Altona

Altona is listed on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market.  Its principal focus is on the evaluation and development of the Company’s flagship Arckaringa Project to exploit the significant coal resources contained in three exploration licences covering 2,500 sq. kms in the northern portion of the Permian Arckaringa Basin in South Australia.  The Project is designed to produce syngas products for the Australian market and export from a resource exceeding 7.8 billion tonnes of coal (1.3 billion tonnes JORC compliant). 

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