Diversified Gas & Oil PLC Transaction in Own Shares (0320M)

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RNS Number : 0320M

Diversified Gas & Oil PLC

11 September 2019

11 September 2019

DIVERSIFIED GAS & OIL PLC

("DGO" or the "Company")

Transaction in own shares

Diversified Gas & Oil plc (AIM: DGO), the US based owner and operator of natural gas, natural gas liquids and oil wells as well as midstream assets, announces that, in accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 30 April 2019 it has purchased 280,175 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the capital of the Company (the "Shares") in the market at a volume weighted average price of 111.083 pence per Share at the discretion of Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited ("Stifel"). The Shares acquired will, in due course, be cancelled.

 
 Date of purchase:                                 11 September 2019 
 Aggregate number of ordinary shares purchased:              280,175 
 Lowest price paid per share:                          110.250 pence 
 Highest price paid per share:                         111.500 pence 
 Volume weighted average price paid per share:         111.083 pence 
 

Following the cancellation of Shares the Company will have 659,776,614 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in issue and no ordinary shares are held in treasury. All ordinary shares previously announced as held in treasury have been cancelled. The figure of 659,776,614 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation), the table below contains detailed information of the individual trades made by Stifel as part of the buyback programme.

Individual transactions:

 
 Number of shares   Transaction price    Time of transaction       Trading venue 
     purchased       (pence per share) 
      45,167              110.25              08:56:20         London Stock Exchange 
                   -------------------  --------------------  ---------------------- 
      91,620              111.00              10:36:03         London Stock Exchange 
                   -------------------  --------------------  ---------------------- 
      10,768              110.50              11:51:25         London Stock Exchange 
                   -------------------  --------------------  ---------------------- 
      50,000              111.50              14:51:39         London Stock Exchange 
                   -------------------  --------------------  ---------------------- 
      50,000              111.50              16:26:48         London Stock Exchange 
                   -------------------  --------------------  ---------------------- 
      1,553               111.50              16:29:40         London Stock Exchange 
                   -------------------  --------------------  ---------------------- 
      3,179               111.50              16:29:40         London Stock Exchange 
                   -------------------  --------------------  ---------------------- 
      3,366               111.50              16:29:40         London Stock Exchange 
                   -------------------  --------------------  ---------------------- 
      3,000               111.50              16:29:40         London Stock Exchange 
                   -------------------  --------------------  ---------------------- 
      8,198               111.50              16:29:40         London Stock Exchange 
                   -------------------  --------------------  ---------------------- 
      5,704               111.50              16:29:40         London Stock Exchange 
                   -------------------  --------------------  ---------------------- 
      7,620               111.00              16:31:10         London Stock Exchange 
                   -------------------  --------------------  ---------------------- 
 

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014.

 
 Diversified Gas & Oil PLC 
  Rusty Hutson Jr., Chief Executive Officer 
  Brad Gray, Chief Operating Officer & Finance Director 
  Eric Williams, Chief Financial Officer 
  www.dgoc.com 
  [e-mail]                                              + 1 [phone] 
 Cenkos Securities plc 
  (Nominated Adviser) 
  Russell Cook 
  Katy Birkin 
  Ben Jeynes                                               [phone] 
 Mirabaud Securities Limited 
  (Joint Broker) 
  Peter Krens 
  Edward Haig-Thomas                                       [phone] 
 Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited 
  (Joint Broker) 
  Callum Stewart 
  Nicholas Rhodes 
  Ashton Clanfield                                         [phone] 
 Buchanan 
  (Financial Public Relations) 
  Ben Romney 
  Chris Judd 
  James Husband 
  [e-mail]                                       [phone] 
 

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September 11, 2019 12:45 ET (16:45 GMT)