LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — (Marketwire) — 01/31/12 — Heritage Oil Plc (TSX: HOC)(LSE: HOIL), an independent upstream exploration and production company, announces that on 30 January 2012 it purchased 75,000 Ordinary Shares to be held in treasury at 189.7 pence per share. Following this purchase, Heritage Oil Plc holds 33,406,107 Ordinary Shares in treasury, and has 256,341,923 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 30 January 2012 is 259,153,331.
The above figure (259,153,331) 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.
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