Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 3225Y
Rockhopper Exploration plc
31 December 2019
 

31 December 2019  

Rockhopper Exploration plc

("Rockhopper" or the "Company")

   

Director/PDMR Shareholding and Total Voting Rights

 

Share Incentive Plan

 

Rockhopper Exploration plc (AIM: RKH), the oil and gas exploration and production company with key interests in the North Falkland Basin, 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 December 2019. The Partnership Shares were purchased using cash contributed by the Directors.

 

Director

Number of Partnership Shares purchased

Number of Matching Shares acquired

Price per Share

Date of Transaction

Samuel Moody

988

1976

£0.1519

27 December 2019 

Stewart MacDonald

988

1976

£0.1519

27 December 2019

 

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 December 2019:

 

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 of Partnership and Matching Shares through the Company's Share Incentive Plan

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

Date of transaction: 27 December 2019

Price: £0.1519

Volume:

Partnership Shares: 988

Matching Shares: 1976

d)

Aggregated information

 

Date of transaction: 27 December 2019

Aggregated volume: 2964

Price: £0.1519

e)

Date of the transaction

27 December 2019

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 Shares through the Company's Share Incentive Plan

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

Date of transaction: 27 December 2019

Price: £0.1519

Volume:

Partnership Shares: 988

Matching Shares: 1976

d)

Aggregated information

 

Date of transaction: 27 December 2019

Aggregated volume: 2964

Price: £0.1519

e)

Date of the transactions

27 December 2019

f)

Place of the transactions

Outside a trading venue

 

 

Total Voting Rights

 

In respect of the month of December 2019, the Company has on 27 December 2019 issued 35,559 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 27 December 2019, the issued ordinary share capital of the Company consisted of 457,979,755 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 entitlements.

 

Enquiries:

 

Rockhopper Exploration plc

Jan Davies, Company Secretary

Tel. +44 (0) 20 7390 0230 (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 0231

 

 

 

 

 

 


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