Upland Resources Limited Convertible Loan Notes Facility - Commission (2142I)

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RNS Number : 2142I

Upland Resources Limited

20 March 2018

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20 March 2018

UPLAND RESOURCES LIMITED

("Upland" or the "Company")

CONVERTIBLE LOAN NOTES FACILITY - COMMISSION

Upland Resources Limited (LSE: UPL), the oil and gas company actively building a portfolio of attractive upstream assets, announces that it has today satisfied the aggregate GBP105,000 commission payable to the Facility Providers of the GBP3,500,000 Convertible Loan Notes Facility (as referred to in the Company's announcement of 8 March 2018), as to GBP65,000 in cash and as to GBP40,000 by the issue of an aggregate of 1,769,355 new shares of no par value in the Company (the "Commitment Fee Shares") at 2.261p per share.

For this purpose, the Commitment Fee Shares were valued at a 10% discount to the volume weighted average price ("VWAP") of shares of no par value in the Company over the five trading days immediately prior to today's date.

The Commitment Fee Shares represent approximately 0.385% of the Company's enlarged issued share capital.

505,530 Commitment Fee Shares (with a value of GBP11,428.56 at the discounted VWAP price) have been issued to Norza Zakaria, Chairman of the Company and one of the Facility Providers.

Application will be made to the UK Listing Authority and to London Stock Exchange plc for the Commitment Fee Shares to be admitted to listing on the standard listing segment of the Official List maintained by of the UK Listing Authority and to trading on London Stock Exchange plc's main market for listed securities (together "Admission").

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 on market abuse

Contact details:

 
 Upland Resources                            www.uplandres.com 
  Limited 
 Steve Staley, CEO                      [e-mail] 
 Optiva Securities                    www.optivasecurities.com 
  Limited 
 Jeremy King                         Tel: [phone] 
  (Corporate Finance)         [e-mail] 
 Christian Dennis                    Tel: [phone] 
  (Corporate Broker)     [e-mail] 
 FTI Consulting 
 Edward Westropp                     Tel: [phone] 
                             [e-mail] 
 Molly Stewart                       Tel: [phone] 
                               [e-mail] 
 Flowcomms Ltd 
 Sasha Sethi                          Tel: [phone] 
                                           [e-mail] 
 

Notes

Upland Resources Limited is an upstream oil & gas company whose highly experienced management team has a track record of creating major value for shareholders in junior oil & gas companies, including Cove Energy plc. The Company has extensive technical and commercial skills and contacts, management having held senior roles in Petronas, Conoco, Shell etc.

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