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Additional Listing & Director Shareholding

1st Oct 2009 10:09

RNS Number : 0387A
Victoria Oil & Gas PLC
01 October 2009
 



1 October 2009

Victoria Oil & Gas Plc

('Victoria Oil & Gas' or 'the Company')

(AIM: VOG)

Additional Listing and Directors' Share Interests

Victoria Oil & Gas Plc, the oil and gas company with assets in Cameroon and the FSU, announces today that it shall allot, conditional on admission, a further 7,028,835 ordinary shares of 0.5 pence each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares"). 

Of these, 3,494,071 Ordinary Shares will be issued in lieu of cash payment to advisers and 2,700,000 will be issued to the Trustees of the Company's Employee Share Ownership Plan. 

A further 834,764 Ordinary Shares will be allotted to Directors in lieu of cash salary in accordance with their standard employment contacts at a weighted average month-end market price of 3.7 pence for the six month period ended 31 July 2009. 

The effect of the above on the holdings of the Directors is as follows:-

New Issue of Shares 

Total Holding in VOG

Kevin Foo

681,793

 30,541,975* 

3.2%

Robert Palmer

152,971

888,434

0.1%

*The shares are held by H J Resources Ltd on behalf of a discretionary trust, of which Mr Foo and his wife are possible beneficiaries.

These share allotments will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing issued Ordinary Shares in the Company. Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for these shares to be admitted to AIM and it is expected that dealings will commence on 7 October 2009. The total issued share capital of VOG following this allotment will be 956,744,788 shares. The Company does not hold any ordinary shares in treasury and so the total number of voting rights in the Company is 956,744,788.

For further information, please contact:

Victoria Oil & Gas Plc - Tel: +44 (0) 20 7921 8820

George Donne / Kevin Foo

Strand Partners Limited - Tel: +44 (0) 20 7409 3494

Simon Raggett / Angela Peace

Fox-Davies Capital - Tel: +44 (0) 20 7936 5220

Daniel Fox-Davies / Oliver Stansfield

Conduit PR - Tel: +44 (0) 20 7429 6607

Jonathan Charles / Ed Portman


This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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