Additional Listing

7th Jul 2010 16:43

For immediate release: 7 July 2010

Northern Petroleum Plc ("Northern" or "the Company") Additional Listing

The Company announces that, following the exercise of warrants yesterday at 67 pence per share to subscribe for ordinary shares by an employee, it has made an application pursuant to the authority granted on 30 June 2008 for the admission of 50,000 ordinary shares of 5 pence each to trading on AIM. Each new ordinary share will rank pari passu with existing ordinary shares. Following the admission, the total number of ordinary shares in issue will be 91,887,701.

It is expected that dealings in the said shares will commence on 13 July 2010.

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For further information please contact:

Northern Petroleum Plc Tel: +44 (0) 20 7469 2900 Chris Foss, Company Secretary

Sophie Hull, Head of Corporate Communications

Cenkos Securities (NOMAD and Joint Broker) Jon Fitzpatrick Tel: +44 (0) 20 7397 8900 Jefferies International (Joint Broker) Tel: +44 (0) 20 7029 8000

Chris Snoxall Financial Dynamics Tel: +44 (0) 20 7831 3113

Billy Clegg / Edward Westropp

Bishopsgate Communications Tel: +44 (0) 20 7562 3350

Nick Rome / Michael Kinirons

Notes to Editors:About Northern

Northern Petroleum Plc is an independent oil and gas Exploration Company listed on the AIM market in London focused on the European Union and nearby areas.

Comprehensive information on Northern and its oil and gas operations, including all press releases, annual reports and interim reports are available from Northern's website at www.northpet.com.

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