Issue of Equity

RNS Number : 4311P
Tower Resources PLC
19 August 2014
 

Tower Resources plc

Issue of Equity  

 

19 August 2014

Tower Resources plc (the "Company" or "Tower" (TRP.L, TRP LN)), the AIM listed Africa focussed oil and gas exploration company, announces the following issuance of New Ordinary Shares.

Tower has agreed to issue 10,035,672 New Ordinary Shares under contractual arrangements as part payment for services provided in the second quarter of 2014. The new Ordinary Shares will be issued at a price of 1.1075p per share representing the average share price of the last 10 days of the calendar quarter ending 30 June 2014.

A total of 9,141,767 New Ordinary Shares will be issued to P.D.F Limited, the Company's Outsourced Exploration Department (OExD®), in part payment for services provided during the calendar quarter ending 30 June 2014 as part of a previously announced quarterly contractual arrangement. P.D.F Limited now holds a total of 23,213,161 Ordinary Shares in Tower representing 0.61% of the issued share capital.

A total of 893,905 New Ordinary Shares have been issued to QX Energy Limited, a company controlled by Nigel Quinton, Head of Exploration, and his family, in part payment for services for the period covering 1 April 2014 to 30 June 2014. QX Energy Limited now holds a total of 1,908,950 Ordinary Shares and Mr Quinton and his wife own 9,000,000 Ordinary Shares in Tower, representing an interest of 0.29% of the issued share capital.

Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. The shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares. It is expected that the admission will become effective and that trading in the New Ordinary Shares will commence at 8.00am on or around 22 August 2014.

Following Admission of the above New Ordinary Shares, the Company's enlarged issued share capital will comprise of 3,785,310,099 Ordinary Shares of 0.1 pence each with voting rights. 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 in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

 

 

Contacts

Tower Resources plc

Graeme Thomson (CEO)
Andrew Matharu (VP - Corporate Affairs)
+44 20 7253 6639

 

Peel Hunt LLP (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)

Richard Crichton/Charles Batten
+44 20 7418 8900

 

GMP Securities Europe LLP (Joint Broker)

Rob Collins/Liz Williamson
+44 20 7647 2800

 

Vigo Communications

Chris McMahon/ Peter Reilly
+44 20 7016 9572

 

 


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