Equatorial Palm Oil plc Grant of Stock Options (6602H)

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Equatorial Palm Oil plc

13 July 2012

EQUATORIAL PALM OIL plc

("EPO" or the "Company")

Grant of Stock Options

EPO, (AIM: PAL), the AIM listed palm oil development company with operations in Liberia, announces that on 18 June 2012 the board of directors of the Company (the "Board") agreed to issue 2,020,200 options to directors and management of the Company (the "Options"). The Options shall be issued for nil consideration and each Option will grant the holder the right to subscribe for one ordinary share in the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), currently held in treasury, at an exercise price of 17.5p. The Options have an expiry date of 26 February 2015, and 50 per cent. of the Options will vest immediately and the remaining 50 per cent. will vest in two equal tranches subject to certain operational performance hurdles.

The table below sets out the distribution of the Options to the Board:

 
 Name                    Number of Options    Total number of    Existing interest 
                              granted         options following     in warrants 
                                                    grant 
----------------------  ------------------  -------------------  ----------------- 
 Michael Frayne*              500,000            1,750,000           2,476,461 
----------------------  ------------------  -------------------  ----------------- 
 Geoffrey Brown               500,000            1,500,000            245,893 
----------------------  ------------------  -------------------  ----------------- 
 Anthony Samaha               200,000            1,200,000            64,220 
----------------------  ------------------  -------------------  ----------------- 
 Shankar Varadharajan         200,000             200,000                - 
----------------------  ------------------  -------------------  ----------------- 
 Joseph Jaoudi                200,000            1,450,000            545,000 
----------------------  ------------------  -------------------  -----------------

* Of the 2,476,461 warrants in which Michael Frayne is interested, a total of 2,327,143 are held in the name of Adelise Services Limited, a company held by a trust of which Michael Frayne is a beneficiary.

In addition, a total of 620,200 options were issued on the same terms to senior management of the Company. Following the issue of options and as at the date of this announcement the Company has a total of 128,316,434 Ordinary Shares in issue and a further 19,936,634 warrants and options outstanding.

For further information, please contact:

 
 Equatorial Palm Oil plc 
  Michael Frayne (Chairman)                   +44 (0) 20 7766 
  www.epoil.co.uk                              7555 
 Strand Hanson Limited (Nominated Adviser)    +44 (0) 20 7409 
  James Harris / Paul Cocker                   3494 
 
 
 Mirabaud Securities LLP (Broker)               +44 (0) 20 7484 
  Peter Krens                                    3510 
 Pelham Bell Pottinger (Financial/ Corporate 
  PR)                                           +44 (0) 20 7861 
  Archie Berens / Joanna Boon                    3126

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