Transaction in Own Shares

08 December 2011

SOCO International plc

("SOCO" or "the Company")

Transaction in own shares

SOCO announces that on 08 December 2011 it purchased 59,936 of its ordinary shares at an average price of 297.18 pence per ordinary share. The highest price and the lowest price paid for these shares were 300 pence and 294.8 pence respectively. All the purchased shares will be held as Treasury shares.

Following the above purchase, SOCO holds 981,024 ordinary shares as Treasury shares. The total number of ordinary shares in issue is 339,558,428 (excluding ordinary shares held as treasury shares).