Further update on Kazakhstan withholding tax

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London, 17 February 2026

Further update regarding Kazakhstan withholding tax disputes

Nostrum Oil & Gas PLC (LSE: NOG) (the "Company" and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group"), an independent oil and gas company engaging in the production, development and exploration of oil and gas in the pre-Caspian Basin of Western Kazakhstan, provides a further update on withholding tax disputes involving its principal operating subsidiary, Zhaikmunai LLP ("ZKM") and the tax authorities in the Republic of Kazakhstan ("RoK"), following on from its announcements on 3 February 2026 and 9 February 2026.

Today ZKM received notifications that based on the results of the meeting of the RoK Ministry of Finance Appeal Board (the "Appeal Board") held on 13 February 2026 regarding ZKM's challenge to tax claims by the RoK tax authorities resulting from their tax audits of ZKM for the years 2018 and 2019, the Appeal Board rejected ZKM's appeal of the results of those tax audits.

ZKM believes that the Appeal Board should have suspended the appeal pending the outcome of the mutual agreement procedure ("MAP") initiated by the Dutch tax authorities under the relevant double tax treaty between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the RoK (the "RoK-NL Treaty") in respect of the pertinent claims.

As previously announced, the Company believes that the tax claims made by the RoK tax authorities resulting from their tax audits of ZKM for the years 2018, 2019 and 2020, which deny ZKM the benefit of relevant and valid exemptions from, or reductions to, withholding tax payable under RoK law on certain bonds issued by Group companies, remuneration on an intra-Group loan, and income from consulting services, respectively, are without merit.

ZKM is in the process of appealing the Appeal Board's decisions to the first instance courts of the RoK and is also considering its treaty-based options.

The Company continues to monitor developments closely and will continue to defend its interests and to assess all available legal and treaty-based remedies. 

Further updates will be issued as appropriate.

LEI: 2138007VWEP4MM3J8B29

Further information

For further information please visit www.nostrumoilandgas.com

Further enquiries

Nostrum Oil & Gas PLC

Yelena Zhuravleva, CFO

[email protected]

TEAM LEWIS

Galyna Kulachek

+ 44 (0) 20 7802 2664

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Notifying person

Thomas Hartnett

Company Secretary

About Nostrum Oil & Gas

Nostrum Oil & Gas PLC is an independent mixed-asset energy company with world-class gas processing facilities and export hub in north-west Kazakhstan. Its shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: NOG). The principal producing asset of Nostrum Oil & Gas PLC is the Chinarevskoye field which is operated by its wholly-owned subsidiary Zhaikmunai LLP, which is the sole holder of the subsoil use rights with respect to the development of the Chinarevskoye field. The Company also owns an 80% interest in Positiv Invest LLP, which holds the subsoil use rights for the "Kamenskoe" and "Kamensko-Teplovsko-Tokarevskoe" areas in the West Kazakhstan region (the Stepnoy Leopard fields).

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