EnQuest PLC AGM Statement (6698N)

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RNS Number : 6698N

EnQuest PLC

21 May 2020

21 May 2020

EnQuest PLC ("EnQuest" or the "Company")

Voting results of the Annual General Meeting held on 21 May 2020

EnQuest announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held today, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting and put to the meeting were passed by the requisite majority by way of a poll.

The results of the poll are set out below. The number of ordinary shares in issue was 1,695,801,955.

 
 Resolution                        For *         %       Against      %       Withheld 
                                                                               ** 
         Annual Report 
 1        & Accounts 2019          631,440,270   99.91   516,506      0.08    181,221 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         Re-election 
          of 
 2        Amjad Bseisu             622,613,047   98.49   9,511,028    1.5     13,922 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         Re-election 
          of 
 3        Jonathan Swinney         630,785,605   99.79   1,260,706    0.2     91,687 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         Election of 
 4        Martin Houston           579,365,203   93.45   40,559,723   6.54    12,213,071 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         Re-election 
 5        of Laurie Fitch          550,225,065   88.12   74,077,038   11.87   7,835,894 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         Re-election 
 6        of Carl Hughes           631,660,711   99.96   200,523      0.03    276,764 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         Re-election 
          of 
 7        Philip Holland           631,517,114   99.94   344,300      0.05    276,583 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         Re-election 
 8        of Howard Paver          624,789,961   98.87   7,071,069    1.12    276,968 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         Re-election 
 9        of John Winterman        631,664,975   99.96   196,440      0.03    276,583 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         Appointment 
 10       of auditor               631,623,690   99.96   208,816      0.03    305,492 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         Authority to 
          set auditor 
 11       remuneration             631,671,419   99.93   386,604      0.06    79,975 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         Directors' Remuneration 
 12       Report                   596,357,342   94.35   35,674,289   5.64    106,366 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         2020 Performance 
 13       Share Plan               618,106,364   97.8    13,819,550   2.19    212,083 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         2020 Restricted 
 14       Share Plan               617,799,657   97.79   13,888,486   2.2     449,854 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         2020 Deferred 
          Bonus Share 
 15       Plan                     631,125,636   99.86   790,227      0.13    222,135 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         2020 Sharesave 
 16       Scheme                   631,611,959   99.94   313,441      0.05    212,598 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
 17      Political Donations       626,201,307   99.12   5,516,707    0.87    419,984 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         Authority to 
 18       allot shares             628,023,515   99.37   3,900,128    0.62    214,355 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         Disapplication 
          of pre-emption 
 19***    rights                   631,417,658   99.96   215,681      0.03    504,659 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
         Authority to 
          purchase own 
 20***    shares                   618,299,873   97.84   13,567,046   2.15    271,078 
        ------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  ------  ----------- 
 

* Includes discretionary votes

** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted for the purposes of the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution

*** Indicates a Special Resolution

The full text of each resolution can be found in the Notice of Meeting which is available on the Company's website, www.enquest.com

The Company will submit to the National Storage Mechanism copies of the Resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting and these will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

ENDS

For further information please contact:

EnQuest PLC Tel: [phone]

Stefan Ricketts (Company Secretary)

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