Directors and Employees Grant of Options (7549D)

TIDMPOS

RNS Number : 7549D

Plexus Holdings Plc

28 March 2011

Plexus Holdings PLC/Index: AIM/Epic: POS / Sector: Oil equipment & services

28 March 2011

Plexus Holdings plc ('Plexus' or 'the Group')

Directors and Employees Grant of Options

Plexus Holdings plc, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP(R) method of wellhead engineering, announces that on 25 March 2011 it granted an award of share options under the 2005 Share Option Scheme ('the Scheme') to each of the following Directors to acquire ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ('Shares') at a strike price of 60p per share up to the maximum number detailed below:

 
                                            Maximum total number 
                                             of Shares over which 
                                             options/awards held 
                                             under the 2005 Share 
                       Maximum number of     Option Scheme following 
                        Shares subject to    notification(including 
 Name of Director       the award            this award) 
 Ben van Bilderbeek    169,642              955,959 
                      -------------------  ------------------------- 
 Graham Stevens        101,042              616,421 
                      -------------------  ------------------------- 
 Craig Hendrie         105,853              621,232 
                      -------------------  ------------------------- 
 

In addition, on the same date the Company granted awards of share options under the Scheme to employees of the Group to acquire a maximum total number of 1,172,542 Shares at the same strike price of 60p per share.

The exercise of all of the above options is subject to timing and performance criteria set out in the Scheme.

**ENDS**

For further information please visit www.posgrip.com or contact:

 
  Ben van Bilderbeek   Plexus Holdings PLC          Tel: [phone] 
                                                     6890 
  Graham Stevens       Plexus Holdings PLC          Tel: [phone] 
                                                     6890 
  Jon Fitzpatrick      Cenkos Securities PLC        Tel: [phone] 
                                                     8900 
  Ken Fleming          Cenkos Securities PLC        Tel: [phone] 
                                                     6939 
  Felicity Edwards     St Brides Media & Finance    Tel: [phone] 
                        Ltd                          1177 
 

Notes to Editors:

Plexus, which began trading on AIM in December 2005, is an established oil and gas engineering and services business which supplies wellhead and mudline suspension equipment for exploration and production applications based in Aberdeen, with an office in London, Cairo, Kuala Lumpur and a presence in Houston, Texas. It has developed and patented a method of engineering for oil and gas field wellheads and connectors, POS-GRIP, which involves deforming one tubular member against another to effect gripping and sealing.

POS-GRIP wellhead systems have to date been used or selected to be used in over 150 oil and gas wells by international companies including Apache Energy Australia, BHP Billiton, BG International, Bowleven plc, BP, Brunei Shell Petroleum, Cairn Energy, Centrica, ConocoPhillips, Dubai Petroleum, GDF SUEZ, Global Santa Fe, Maersk, Petro-Canada Trinidad & Tobago, Red Sea Petroleum Operating Company, Repsol, RWE, Senergy Limited, Shell Egypt, StatoilHydro, Silverstone Energy, Talisman Energy, Tullow Oil, and Wintershall.

The Company plans to accelerate the roll out of POS-GRIP technology as a superior alternative to current wellhead technology. It has particular advantages in HP/HT (High Pressure/High Temperature) and X-HP-HT (Extreme High Pressure/High Temperature) oil and gas environments for which there is increasing demand throughout the world. The Company's long-term goal is to develop POS-GRIP technology as the future industry standard for wellhead design. This objective includes the distribution of POS-GRIP technology through licensees to maximise market penetration.

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