Holding(s) in Company

15 October 2013

Ruspetro plc ("Ruspetro" or the "Company")

London, 15 October 2013: Ruspetro plc (LSE: RPO) has today been informed that, further to the announcement issued on 19 September 2013, the purchase by Kalior Invest S.A. ("Kalior") of nine million Ruspetro ordinary shares at a price of 100 pence per ordinary share from Limolines Transport Limited ("Limolines") has completed and that the option granted to Kalior to acquire a further nine million ordinary shares at a price of 100 pence per ordinary share from Limolines has been extended to 28 October 2013. 

A further announcement will be made in due course as appropriate.

Enquiries

Investors / analyst enquiries

Dominic Manley, Ruspetro

+44 207 318 1265 / +44 7540 460 872

Twitter: @ruspetroplc

Media

Natalia Erikssen - FTI Consulting

+44 207 831 3113

About Ruspetro

Ruspetro plc is an independent oil & gas development and production company, listed on the premium segment of the London Stock Exchange (LSE: RPO). The Company's operations are located on three contiguous licence blocks in the middle of the Krasnoleninsk Arch in Western Siberia. Ruspetro assets include proved and probable (2P) reserves of over 1.8 billion barrels of oil equivalent.