Result of Annual General Meeting

Ophir Energy plc

Result of Annual General Meeting

London 7 June 2013: The Board of Directors of Ophir Energy plc ("Ophir" or "the Company") announces that all resolutions put to shareholders at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held Thursday 6 June 2013, were passed by the requisite majority on a poll.

Resolutions 1 -14 and 18 were proposed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 - 17 were proposed as special resolutions.

Details of the resolutions are set out in the Notice of AGM which is available on the Company's website. Full details of the votes cast for each resolution will also shortly be available on the Company's website.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions which constitute special business at the AGM (being resolutions 14-18) will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and available for inspection at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do

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ForFurtherEnquiries please contact:

Ophir Energy plc +44 (0)20 7290 5800

Nick Cooper, CEO

Jacqueline Knox, Company Secretary

Brunswick Group +44 (0)20 7404 5959

Patrick Handley

Elizabeth Adams

Notes to Editors

Ophir Energy (OPHR.LN) is an African focussed, upstream oil and gas resource company which is a member of the FTSE 250. The Group's headquarters are located in London (England), with operational offices in Perth (Australia), Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), Dar es Salaam and Mtwara (Tanzania), Port Gentil, (Gabon) and Nairobi (Kenya).

Ophir is a material, strategic deep-water offshore acreage holder in West and East Africa.

For further information on Ophir, please refer to www.ophir-energy.com