Admission of Shares to AIM

31 March 2017

Bowleven plc ('Bowleven' or 'the Company')

Admission of Shares to AIM and

Total Voting Rights and Share Capital

Application has been made for 10,703 new ordinary shares of 10p each ("Ordinary Shares") in the Company to be admitted to trading on AIM. It is expected that admission of the Ordinary Shares will become effective on 3 April 2017. The admission of these Ordinary Shares is in connection with the exercise of options by a former employee. The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares in the Company.

In accordance with the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the Company announces that as at 31 March 2017, the Company's issued share capital consists of 328,531,273 ordinary shares with a nominal value of 10 pence each ("Shares"). Bowleven holds 7,807,281 Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the share capital of the Company is 320,723,992 (one vote per Share).

The above figure of 320,723,992 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which to determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules of the Financial Conduct Authority.

ENQUIRIES

For further information, please contact:

Bowleven plc

Christopher Ashworth, Chairman 00 44 131 524 5678

David Clarkson, Chief Operating Officer

Brunswick Group LLP

Patrick Handley 00 44 207 404 5959

Will Rowberry

Cenkos Securities plc (NOMAD)

Derrick Lee 00 44 131 220 6939

Neil McDonald