Rockhopper Exploration plc Directors' Share Purchases (5362W)

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RNS Number : 5362W

Rockhopper Exploration plc

27 April 2016

27 April 2016

Rockhopper Exploration plc

(the "Company")

Directors' Share Purchases

Rockhopper Exploration plc (AIM: RKH), the oil and gas exploration and production company with key interests in the North Falkland Basin and the Greater Mediterranean region, announces that it was notified on 26 April 2016 of the following purchases by Directors of ordinary 1p shares in the Company:

 
 Name               Number of          Price       Number            % of issued 
                     share purchased    paid per    of                share capital 
                                        share       Ordinary          held 
                                                    Shares            following 
                                                    held following    share 
                                                    share purchase    purchase 
 Fiona MacAulay 
  (COO)             49,867              33 pence    115,559          0.025 
 Stewart 
  MacDonald 
  (CFO)              45,225             33 pence    83,913            0.018 
 John Martin 
  (Non-Executive                        33.75 
  Director)          91,600              pence      91,600            0.020 
 

For further information, please contact:

Rockhopper Exploration plc

Tel: (via Vigo Communications) - 020 7830 9700

Sam Moody - Chief Executive

Fiona MacAulay - Chief Operating Officer

Stewart MacDonald - Chief Financial Officer

Canaccord Genuity Limited (NOMAD and Joint Broker)

Tel: [phone]

Henry Fitzgerald-O'Connor

Liberum Capital (Joint Broker)

Tel: [phone]

Clayton Bush

Neil Elliot

Vigo Communications

Tel: [phone]

Patrick d'Ancona

Ben Simons

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