Transaction in Own Shares

4 May 2012

SOCO International plc

("SOCO" or "the Company")

Transaction in own shares

SOCO announces that on 4 May 2012 it purchased 157,000 of its ordinary shares at an average price of 281.5303 pence per ordinary share. The highest price and the lowest price paid for these shares were 289.9 pence and 275.4 pence respectively. All the purchased shares will be held as Treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, SOCO holds 3,236,013 ordinary shares as Treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue is 337,594,439 (excluding ordinary shares held as treasury shares).