Block Listing of Ordinary Shares

Ophir Energy PLC

("Ophir" or the "Company")

BLOCK LISTING OF ORDINARY SHARES

London, 21 March 2013: The Company hereby advises that an application has today 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 6,000,000 ordinary shares of 0.25 pence each. It is anticipated that these shares will be admitted on 26 March 2013.

These shares are being reserved under a block listing and will be issued on the exercise of share awards made under the following schemes:

·; 628,580 shares under the Ophir Energy plc Foundation Incentive Scheme;

·; 3,321,420 shares under the Ophir Energy Company Limited Share Option Plan 2006;

·; 2,000,000 shares under the Ophir Energy plc Long Term Incentive Plan 2011; and

·; 50,000 shares under the Ophir Energy plc Deferred Share Plan 2012

When issued, these shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares of the Company

For Further Information please contact:

Ophir Energy plc +44 (0)20 7290 5800

Nick Cooper, CEO

Stephanie Prior, Senior Commercial Manager

Brunswick Group +44 (0)20 7404 5959

Patrick Handley

Elizabeth Adams

Notes to Editors

Ophir Energy (OPHR.LN) is an African focussed, upstream oil and gas resource company which is a member of the FTSE 250. The Group's headquarters are located in London (England), with operational offices in Perth (Australia), Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), Accra (Ghana), Dar es Salaam and Mtwara (Tanzania), Port Gentil, (Gabon) and Nairobi (Kenya).

Ophir is the sixth largest deepwater acreage holder offshore Africa, present in four key emerging sub-Saharan exploration themes, and the largest net acreage holder in offshore East Africa.

For further information on Ophir, please refer to www.ophir-energy.com