Pre-export short term loan finance arrangement

26 April 2017

Urals Energy Public Company Limited

("Urals Energy", the "Company" or the "Group")

Pre-export short term loan finance arrangement

The Board of Urals Energy (AIM:UEN), the independent exploration and production company with operations in Russia, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a pre-export short term loan finance arrangement with Petraco Oil Company Limited ("Petraco") under which Petraco will advance the sum of US$3.0 million to the Company (the "Loan") ahead of the anticipated June 2017 tanker shipment from Kolguev Island.

The key terms of the Loan are that:

• it is repayable immediately following the loading of the tanker shipment of approximately 30,000 tonnes of crude oil, scheduled for June 2017;

• interest is chargeable at a margin of 5% over US$ LIBOR up to the date of the bill of lading of the tanker, after which it reduces to 2% over US$ LIBOR; and

• it is secured by way of a pledge by Urals Energy over the shares that Urals Energy holds in JSC Articneft.

The proceeds of the Loan will be used by the Company for general working capital financing.

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