Exercise of Share Options

RNS Number : 6154F
Bahamas Petroleum Company PLC
18 November 2020
 

18 November 2020

Bahamas Petroleum Company plc

("BPC" or the "Company")

Exercise of Share Options

BPC, the Caribbean and Atlantic margin focused oil and gas company, with exploration, production, appraisal and development assets across the region, notes that it has received notification for the exercise of share options in respect of 5,429,206 ordinary shares of 0.002p each in the capital of the Company by a former Director of Columbus Energy Resources PLC. As previously announced, the exercise price in connection with these share options is 0.002p per share.

Application has been made for the shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"), and Admission is expected to occur on or about 20 November 2020. These shares will rank pari passu with the ordinary shares of the Company in issue.  

The Company's total issued share capital, following the issue of the shares, will comprise of  4,054,789,409  ordinary shares. As the Company does not hold any shares in Treasury, this figure may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if  they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company following Admission.

 

For further information, please contact:

 

Bahamas Petroleum Company plc

Simon Potter, Chief Executive Officer

 

Tel: +44 (0) 1624 647 882

Strand Hanson Limited - Nomad

Rory Murphy / James Spinney / Jack Botros

 

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7409 3494

Shore Capital Stockbrokers Limited - Joint Broker

Jerry Keen / Toby Gibbs

Tel: +44 (0) 207 408 4090

Investec Bank Plc - Joint Broker

Chris Sims / Rahul Sharma

Tel: +44 (0) 207 597 5970

CAMARCO

Billy Clegg / James Crothers / Hugo Liddy

Tel: +44 (0) 20 3757 4983

 

Notes to editors

 

BPC is a Caribbean and Atlantic margin focused oil and gas company, with a range of  exploration, appraisal, development and production assets and licences, located offshore in the waters of The Bahamas and Uruguay, and onshore in Trinidad and Tobago, and Suriname. BPC is currently on-track for drilling an initial exploration well in The Bahamas, Perseverance #1, in late 2020 / early 2021, with the well targeting recoverable P 50  prospective oil resources of 0.77 billion barrels, with an upside of 1.44 billion barrels. In Trinidad and Tobago, BPC has five producing fields, two appraisal / development projects and a prospective exploration portfolio in the South West Peninsula. BPC's exploration licence in Uruguay is highly prospective, with a potential resource of 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent. In Suriname, BPC has an onshore appraisal / development project.

 

BPC is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.    www.bpcplc.com

 

 

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