REG - Rockhopper Exp plc - Blocklisting Application

Rockhopper ExplorationAnnouncement

24/01/2019 07:05

RNS Number : 9406N
Rockhopper Exploration plc
24 January 2019
 


24 January 2019
Rockhopper Exploration plc

("Rockhopper" or the "Company")


Blocklisting Application
Rockhopper Exploration plc (AIM: RKH), the oil and gas company with key interests in the North Falkland Basin and the Greater Mediterranean region, announces that, in order to provide for the anticipated issue of shares under the Company's Share Incentive Plan ("SIP") for the remainder of the current tax year and for the 2019/2020 tax year, the Company has applied for a further 500,000 ordinary shares to be blocklisted (the "Blocklisting Shares").  


The Company's HMRC approved SIP was launched in March 2012 and is made available to all employees of the Company including executive Directors who are entitled to participate on an equal basis subject to HMRC limits. Participants can purchase shares in the Company on a monthly basis and receive matching awards of shares and all employees and executive Directors are eligible to receive an annual award of free shares, the level of which is determined by the Company's Remuneration Committee.


The Company has applied for the Blocklisting Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and this is expected take place on 29 January 2019.
 
Enquiries:
 
Rockhopper Exploration plc
Jan Davies, Company Secretary
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7390 0234 (via Vigo Communications)
 
Canaccord Genuity Limited (NOMAD and Joint Broker)
Henry Fitzgerald-O'Connor
James Asensio
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7523 8000
 
Peel Hunt LLP (Joint Broker)
Richard Crichton
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7418 8900
 
 Vigo Communications
Patrick d'Ancona
Ben Simons
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7390 0234




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