LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — (Marketwire) — 08/08/11 — Heritage Oil Plc (TSX: HOC)(LSE: HOIL), an independent upstream exploration and production company, announces that on 5 August 2011 it purchased 75,000 Ordinary Shares to be held in treasury at 209.7254 pence per share (with a price range of 209.5 and 210.0 pence per share). Following this purchase, Heritage Oil Plc holds 27,587,351 Ordinary Shares in treasury, and has 262,160,679 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 5 August 2011 is 264,972,087.
The above figure (264,972,087) 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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Heritage Oil Plc
Tony Buckingham
CEO
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Heritage Oil Plc
Paul Atherton
CFO
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Heritage Oil Plc – Investor Relations
Tanya Clarke
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Pelham Bell Pottinger – PR – Europe
Nick Lambert
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Pelham Bell Pottinger – PR – Europe
Duncan Mayall
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CHF Investor Relations – Investor Relations – Canada
Cathy Hume
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CHF Investor Relations – Investor Relations – Canada
Jeanny So
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