Director/PDMR Shareholding

SOCO International plc

('SOCO' or 'the Company')

DIRECTORS/PDMR SHAREHOLDINGS

Awards under the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan

SOCO announces that awards under the SOCO International plc Long Term Incentive Plan ("Awards") were made yesterday to the Executive Directors of the Company, Ed Story and Roger Cagle, and to Cynthia Cagle, a PDMR, of 277,600, 208,200 and 142,000 ordinary shares of £0.05 each ("Shares"), respectively. At the time of the Awards, the market price of the Shares at the last closing was £3.661.

10 December 2010