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Baron Oil PLC

03 December 2018

Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure

Certain information contained in this announcement would have been deemed inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 until the release of this announcement.

03 December 2018

Baron Oil Plc

("Baron Oil" or "the Company")

Grant of Share Options

Baron Oil (AIM: BOIL) announces that further to the announcement dated 27 November 2018, the Company has now issued 10,000,000 Share Options to Andrew Yeo, Non-Executive Director.

The Share Options have an exercise price of 0.44p, being the mid-market closing price on 30 November 2018 and, as with the existing Share Options, vest immediately and have an exercise period of 3 years from the date of grant.

Following the issue of these Share Options and those issued on 27 November 2018, the number of Share Options in issue is as follows:

 
 Holder            2018 Options   Exercise    Pre-2018    Exercise   Total Options   % of Fully 
                                    Price      Options      Price                      Diluted 
                                    (p)*                     (p)                      Shares** 
 Malcolm Butler      10,000,000      0.435   20,000,000      0.350      30,000,000      2.07 
                  -------------  ---------  -----------  ---------  --------------  ----------- 
 Geoff Barnes        10,000,000      0.435   10,500,000      0.350      20,500,000      1.42 
                  -------------  ---------  -----------  ---------  --------------  ----------- 
 Andrew Yeo          10,000,000      0.440            -          -      10,000,000      0.69 
                  -------------  ---------  -----------  ---------  --------------  ----------- 
 William Colvin               -          -   10,500,000      0.350      10,500,000      0.73 
                  -------------  ---------  -----------  ---------  --------------  ----------- 
 Total               30,000,000              41,000,000                 71,000,000      4.91 
                  -------------  ---------  -----------  ---------  --------------  ----------- 
 *closing mid-market price of Ordinary                                   **Issued Share Capital 
  Shares the day before grant                                                     1,376,409,576 
 

The issue of the Share Options is a related party transaction under Rule 13 of the AIM Rules for Companies.

The independent directors, being Malcolm Butler and Geoff Barnes, having consulted the Company's Nominated Adviser, consider that the terms of the issue of the Share Options to Andrew Yeo are fair and reasonable insofar as the shareholders of the Company are concerned.

PDMR Notification

 
 1.     Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person 
         closely associated 
  (a)   Full name of person Dealing                Andrew Yeo 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------ 
 2.     Reason for notification 
       ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  (b)   Position/status                            Non-executive director 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------ 
  (c)   Initial notification/ Amendment            Initial notification 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------ 
 3.     Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
         auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
       ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  (d)   Name of entity                             Baron Oil Plc 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------ 
  (e)   LEI                                        213800MBSOS9UZ5SW712 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------ 
 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 of the financial instrument,   Options over ordinary 
         type of instrument                         shares of 0.025 pence 
                                                    each in the Company 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------ 
  (b)   Identification code                        GB00B01QGH57 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------ 
  (c)   Nature of the transaction                  Grant of options over 
                                                    ordinary shares 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------ 
  (d)   Price(s) and volume(s)                       Prices(s)    Volume(s) 
                                                     0.44 pence    10,000,000 
                                                                  ----------- 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------ 
  (e)   Aggregated information:                    Single transaction 
         - Aggregated volume                        as in 4(d) above  Prices(s)    Volume(s) 
         - Price                                     0.44 pence    10,000,000 
                                                                  ----------- 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------ 
  (f)   Date of transaction                        03 December 2018 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------ 
  (g)   Place of transaction                       Outside a trading venue 
       -----------------------------------------  ------------------------------------------ 
 

For further information, please contact:

 
                                                     +44 (0)1892 838 
Baron Oil Plc                                         948 
Malcolm Butler, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer 
 
SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP                       +44 (0)20 3470 0470 
Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker 
Lindsay Mair, Richard Hail, Richard Redmayne 
 

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