Additional Listing

7th Jan 2011 16:00

For immediate release: 7 January 2011

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

The Company announces that, following the exercise of warrants today 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 37,500 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 92,024,945.

It is expected that dealings in the 37,500 shares will commence on 13 January 2011.

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For further information please contact:

Northern Petroleum Plc Tel: +44 (0) 20 7469 2900 Chris Foss, Director of Finance, Legal & Corporate Affairs Sophie Hull, Head of Corporate Communications Cenkos Securities (NOMAD and Joint Broker)

Jon Fitzpatrick Tel: +44 (0) 20 7397 8900 Ken Fleming Tel: +44 (0) 131 220 6939

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:

Further information on Northern is available at www.northpet.com.

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