Director/PDMR Shareholding

24 May 2011

MAPLE ENERGY PLC

("Maple" or the "Company")

Notification of Transactions by Directors and Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility Shareholding

Maple Energy plc (AIM: MPLE, Lima: MPLE) an integrated energy company with assets in Peru, was notified on 23 May 2011, by Mr. Nigel Christie, Chairman of the Board and Independent Non-Executive Director, that on the same day he purchased, through his personal pension fund, 42,000 ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 57 pence (US$0.92)* per ordinary share.

Mr. Christie, through his personal pension fund, has a beneficial interest in 100,000 ordinary shares in the Company representing approximately 0.07% of the issued and outstanding ordinary share capital of the Company on a non-diluted basis.

* The exchange rate used was 1.6093, the rate at Bloomberg for US dollars/UK sterling at 20.40hrs(EST) on 23 May 2011.

For further information, please contact:

Maple Energy plc (+ 51 1 611 4000)

Rex W. Canon, Chief Executive Officer, President and Executive Director

Jefferies International Limited: (+44 20 7029 8000)

Thomas Rider

Citigate Dewe Rogerson (+44 20 7638 9571)

Martin Jackson

George Cazenove