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Rockhopper ExplorationAnnouncement

27/07/2017 18:15

RNS Number : 3650M
Rockhopper Exploration plc
27 July 2017
27 July 2017
Rockhopper Exploration plc 
("Rockhopper" or the "Company")
Director/PDMR Shareholding, Total Voting Rights and Blocklisting Application
Share Incentive Plan
Rockhopper Exploration plc (AIM: RKH), the oil and gas exploration and production company with interests in the North Falkland Basin and the Greater Mediterranean region, provides the following update regarding the Rockhopper Share Incentive Plan ("SIP"). The Directors named below have acquired a further interest in Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each in the Company as a result of their participation in the SIP in July 2017. The Partnership Shares were acquired using cash contributed by the Directors. 
Director
Number of Partnership Shares acquired
Number of Matching Shares acquired
Price per Share
Date of Transaction
Sam Moody 
732
1464
0.205
26 July 2017 
Stewart MacDonald 
732
1464
0.205
26 July 2017
Set out below is the information required by Article 19(3) of the EU Market Abuse Regulation No 596/2014 in relation to participation in the Company's SIP by Directors in their capacity as persons discharging managerial responsibilities (PDMRs) for the month of July 2017:
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)
Name
Samuel Moody
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Chief Executive Officer
b)
Initial notification/Amendment
Initial notification
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
Rockhopper Exploration plc
b)
LEI
213800IPXW6XRLVCL581
4
Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each
GB00BOFVQX23
b)
Nature of the transaction
Acquisition ofPartnership and Matching Sharesthrough the Company's Share Incentive Plan
c) 
Price(s) and volume(s)
Date of transaction: 26 July 2017 
Price: 0.205
Volume: 
Partnership Shares: 732
Matching Shares: 1464
d) 
Aggregated information
Date of transaction: 26 July 2017 
Aggregated volume: 2196
Price: 0.205
e) 
Date of the transaction
26 July 2017
f) 
Place of the transaction
Outside a trading venue
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)
Name
Stewart MacDonald 
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Chief Financial Officer
b)
Initial notification/Amendment
Initial notification
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
Rockhopper Exploration plc
b)
LEI
213800IPXW6XRLVCL581
4
Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each
GB00BOFVQX23
b)
Nature of the transactions
Acquisition of Partnership and Matching Sharesthrough the Company's Share Incentive Plan
c) 
Price(s) and volume(s)
Date of transaction: 26 July 2017 
Price: 0.205
Volume: 
Partnership Shares: 732
Matching Shares: 1464
d) 
Aggregated information
Date of transaction: 26 July 2017 
Aggregated volume: 2196
Price: 0.205
e) 
Date of the transactions
26 July 2017
f) 
Place of the transactions
Outside a trading venue
Total Voting Rights
In respect of the month of July 2017, the Company has on 26 July 2017 issued 27,084 new ordinary shares as part of the Company's Share Incentive Plan ("SIP").
In conformity with the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the Company confirms that, as at 26 July 2017, the issued ordinary share capital of the Company consisted of 456,992,042 shares with voting rights attached (one vote per ordinary share).
The Company does not hold any shares in Treasury at the date of this disclosure. The issued share capital figure can be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which to determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
The issue of shares under the SIP has been made under the Company's existing block listing entitlement.
Blocklisting Application
The Company has in place a blocklisting for the allotment of new shares under the Company's SIP. In order to provide for the anticipated issue of shares under the SIP for the remainder of the current 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 has been in place since 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 Blocklisting Shares are expected to be admitted to trading on AIM on 2 August 2017. 


Enquiries:
Rockhopper Exploration plc
Jan Davies, Company Secretary
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7830 9700 (via Vigo Communications)
Canaccord Genuity Limited
Henry Fitzgerald-O'Connor
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7523 8000
Vigo Communications
Patrick d'Ancona
Ben Simons
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7830 9700

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