LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — (Marketwire) — 05/10/12 — Heritage Oil Plc (TSX: HOC)(LSE: HOIL), an independent upstream exploration and production company, currently has 21,715,918 Ordinary Shares block listed under its Share Option Scheme, Exchangeable Shares and Convertible Bonds.
In February 2012 the Convertible Bonds were repaid and as such 27,084,664 Ordinary Shares have been removed from the Company–s existing block listing.
Heritage Oil Plc holds 34,532,442 Ordinary Shares in treasury, and has 255,215,588 Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) as well as 2,811,408 exchangeable shares of no par value of Heritage Oil Corporation, each carrying one voting right in Heritage.
The total number of voting rights in Heritage, excluding treasury shares, as at 9 May 2012 is 258,026,996.
The above figure (258,026,996) may be used by shareholders 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, Heritage under the FSA–s Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
More information about the Company is available on the Company–s website at .
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Contacts:
Heritage Oil Plc
Tony Buckingham
CEO
+44 (0) 1534 835 400
Heritage Oil Plc
Paul Atherton
CFO
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Heritage Oil Plc – Investor Relations
Tanya Clarke
+44 (0) 20 7518 0838
Heritage Oil Plc – Investor Relations
Claire Harrison
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Media Enquiries
Nick Lambert
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Duncan Mayall
+44 (0) 20 7861 3888
Canada
Cathy Hume
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