Additional Listing

Ophir Energy plc

("Ophir" or the "Company")

Additional Listing

London, 21 September 2011: The Company hereby advises that an application has been made to the Financial Services Authority for admission to the Official List, and to the London Stock Exchange plc for admission to trading, for a total of 4,697,173 ordinary shares of 0.25 pence each. It is expected that admission will be granted on 22 September 2011.

These shares will be issued pursuant to the exercise of 4,000,000 options by Oil & Gas Exploration Ltd and the exercise of 697,173 warrants by Hydrocarbon Investments Ltd. In July 2011, Oil & Gas Exploration Ltd and Hydrocarbon Investments Ltd each served an irrevocable notice to exercise these options and warrants on 20 September 2011. Once the new shares have been allotted, the Company will have 326,394,581 ordinary shares in issue.

When issued, these shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares of the Company.

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