Coastal Energy Company Coastal Energy Announces Insider Transactions (4844M)

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RNS Number : 4844M

Coastal Energy Company

27 August 2013

AIM: CEO August 27, 2013

TSX: CEN

Coastal Energy Announces Insider Transactions

Coastal Energy Company (the "Company" or "Coastal") (TSX: CEN, AIM: CEO), an independent exploration and production company with assets in Thailand, announces that it was notified yesterday of the following transactions in the Company's common shares:

 
                            Transaction    Shares this    Transaction   Shares     % of Total 
 Shareholder      Title         Date        Transaction      Price       Owned     Outstanding 
-------------  ----------  -------------  -------------  ------------  --------  ------------- 
 Open Market 
  Purchase 
-------------  ----------  -------------  -------------  ------------  --------  ------------- 
 Olivier 
  de Montal     Director     08/22/2013       27,616       C$15.075     400,000          0.35% 
 
 

After accounting for the transactions listed above, Directors & Officers own a total of 2,824,424 Common Shares of the Company, or 2.49% outstanding shares based on total shares issued and outstanding of 113,365,627

Additional information, including the Company's complete competent person's report may be found on the Company's website at www.CoastalEnergy.comor may be found in documents filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

This statement contains 'forward-looking statements' as defined by the applicable securities legislation. Statements relating to current and future drilling results, existence and recoverability of potential hydrocarbon reserves, production amounts or revenues, forward capital expenditures, operation costs, oil and gas price forecasts and similar matters are based on current data and information and should be viewed as forward-looking statements. Such statements are not guarantees of future results and are subject to risks and uncertainties beyond Coastal Energy's control. Actual results may differ substantially from the forward-looking statements.

Coastal Energy Company

Email: [e-mail] [phone]

Strand Hanson Limited (Nominated Adviser) [phone]

Rory Murphy / Andrew Emmott

Macquarie Capital (Europe) Limited (Broker) [phone]

Steve Baldwin/Andrew Jones

FirstEnergy Capital LLP(Broker)

Hugh Sanderson / Travis Inlow [phone]

Buchanan

Tim Thompson / Ben Romney [phone]

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