TIDMVOG

RNS Number : 8226H

Victoria Oil & Gas PLC

05 August 2019

5 August 2019

Victoria Oil & Gas Plc ("VOG" or "the Company")

Grant of Options to Directors and employees

Victoria Oil & Gas Plc announces that further to the Company's circular to shareholders dated 11 March 2019, a long-term incentive programme ("LTIP") for Directors, management and employees has been adopted by the Board on 31 July 2019 ('Date of Grant"). As conveyed to the shareholder circular dated 11 March 2019, the Annual Report and Accounts to 31 December 2019, and in our Pre-AGM Trading Update dated 27 June 2019, the options programme has been implemented to enable us to reduce Executive and Non-Executive Directors fees and align the interests of all of our Directors and employees to those of our shareholders.

On the Date of Grant, options totalling 13 million Ordinary Shares (or 5.1% of issued share capital of the Company) have been granted at a price of 14p. All share options have exercise periods of 5 years following vesting dates. The share options have been granted to the Executive Directors and employees pursuant to the LTIP. Share options to the Non-Executive Directors have been granted as per individual Option Agreements.

The following notification has been made to the FCA in accordance with the requirements of article 19.3 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation:

 
 1    Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
       / person closely associated 
 a)   Name                1. Roger Kennedy 
                           2. Dostan Investments Limited * 
                           3. Andrew Diamond 
                           4. John Knight 
                           5. John Daniel 
     -------  ------------------------------------------------------- 
 2    Reason for the notification: 
       Allotment of shares options to Directors/PDMR 
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   a)     Position/status                            1. Executive Chairman 
                                                      2. Person Closely Associated with Ahmet Dik 
                                                      - Chief Executive Officer * 
                                                      3. Finance Director 
                                                      4. Non-Executive Director 
                                                      5. Non-Executive Director 
         ------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 b)     Initial notification            Initial notification 
         /Amendment 
       ------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 3      Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
         auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
       -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)     Name                            Victoria Oil & Gas plc 
       ------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 b)     LEI                             213800JHNB148AXECS22 
       ------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 4      Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for 
         (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; 
         (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions 
         have been conducted 
       -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)     Description                     Ordinary shares of 0.5p each 
         of the financial 
         instrument, 
         type of instrument 
-----  ------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 
        Identification                  GB00BRWR3752 
         code 
 
 b)     Nature of the                       Grant of Options made to the Executive Directors, 
         transaction                         employees and Non-Executive Directors under 
                                             the Victoria Oil & Gas Plc Long Term Incentive 
                                             Plan 
       ------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 c)     Price(s) and                    Director Name               Price             Number of 
         volume(s)                                                                     share options 
                                       --------------------------  ----------------  ------------------ 
                                             1. Roger Kennedy       1. 14 pence       1. 3,500,000 
                                             2. Ahmet Dik *          2. 14 pence       2. 4,000,000 
                                             3. Andrew Diamond       3. 14 pence       3. 2,000,000 
                                             4. John Knight          4. 14 pence       4. 1,000,000 
                                             5. John Daniel          5. 14 Pence       5. 1,000,000 
       ------------------------------  --------------------------  ----------------  ------------------ 
 d)     Aggregated information 
                                          N/A 
 
 e)     Date of the 
         transactions                     31 July 2019 
       ------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 f)     Place of the                    Outside of a main market 
         transaction 
       ------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 
 

* Share Options awarded to Dostan Investments Limited, a company owned and controlled by Ahmet Dik (Chief Executive Officer)

Furthermore, the Company announces that Dostan Investments Limited, a company owned and controlled by Ahmet Dik (Chief Executive Officer) has elected to exercise its options awarded as part of the Annual Bonus Plan of 2016. A total of 433,735 new ordinary shares ("Ordinary Shares") of 0.5p each in the Company have been issued pursuant to the exercise of these options.

An application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the admission of the new Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM ("Admission"). Admission is expected to become effective and dealings in the new Ordinary Shares are expected to commence at 8.00 a.m. on 9 August 2019. Following Admission, the Company will have 256,861,796 Ordinary Shares in issue.

The following notification has been made to the FCA in respect of the exercise of options by Mr Dik in accordance with the requirements of article 19.3 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation:

 
  1      Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities 
          / person closely associated 
  a)     Name                                 Dostan Investments Limited * 
        -----------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------ 
  2      Reason for the notification: 
          Exercise of share options by a Director/PDMR 
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  a)     Position/status                           Person closely Associated with Ahmet Dik 
                                                    - Chief Executive Officer * 
        -----------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------ 
 b)     Initial notification                 Initial notification 
         /Amendment 
       -----------------------------------  ----------------------------------------------------- 
 3      Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
         auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
       ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 a)     Name                                 Victoria Oil & Gas plc 
       -----------------------------------  ----------------------------------------------------- 
 b)     LEI                                  213800JHNB148AXECS22 
       -----------------------------------  ----------------------------------------------------- 
 4      Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for 
         (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; 
         (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions 
         have been conducted 
       ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
 a)     Description                          Ordinary shares of 0.5p each 
         of the financial 
         instrument, 
         type of instrument 
-----  -----------------------------------  ----------------------------------------------------- 
 
        Identification                       GB00BRWR3752 
         code 
 
 b)     Nature of the                            Exercise of Options 
         transaction 
       -----------------------------------  ----------------------------------------------------- 
 c)     Price(s) and                         Director Name        Price      Number of 
         volume(s)                                                            share options 
                                            -------------------  ---------  --------------------- 
                                            Ahmet Dik *      Nil             433,735 
  -----------------------------------  -------------------  --------------  --------------------- 
 d)     Aggregated information                N/A 
 
 e)     Date of the                          1 August 2019 
         transactions 
       -----------------------------------  ----------------------------------------------------- 
 f)     Place of the                         Outside of a main market 
         transaction 
       -----------------------------------  ----------------------------------------------------- 
 
 

* Share issued to Dostan Investments Limited, a company owned and controlled by Ahmet Dik (Chief Executive Officer)

For further information, please visit www.victoriaoilandgas.com or contact:

Victoria Oil & Gas Plc

Ahmet Dik Tel: +44 (0) 20 7921 8820

Kate Baldwin

Strand Hanson Limited (Nominated and Financial Adviser)

   Rory Murphy / James Dance / Jack Botros                                Tel: +44 (0) 20 7409 3494 

Shore Capital Stockbrokers Limited (Joint Broker)

   Mark Percy / Toby Gibbs (corporate finance)                            Tel: +44 (0) 207 408 4090 

Jerry Keen (corporate broking)

FirstEnergy Capital LLP (Joint Broker)

Jonathan Wright / Hugh Sanderson Tel: +44 (0) 207 448 0200

Camarco (Financial PR)

Billy Clegg Tel: +44 (0) 203 757 4983

Nick Hennis Tel: +44 (0) 203 781 8330

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