Holding(s) in Company
July 13 2009 - 9:30AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMVPC TIDMCNA
RNS Number : 5702V
Venture Production plc
13 July 2009
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| TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES |
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| 1. Identity of the issuer or the | |
| underlying issuer of existing shares to | VENTURE PRODUCTION PLC |
| which voting rights are attached: | |
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| 2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes): |
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| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights | X |
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| An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which | |
| may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which | |
| voting rights are attached | |
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| An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic | |
| effect to qualifying financial instruments | |
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| An event changing the breakdown of voting rights | |
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| Other (please | | |
| specify): | | |
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| 3. Full name of person(s) subject to | CENTRICA PLC |
| the notification obligation: | CENTRICA HOLDINGS LIMITED |
| | GB GAS HOLDINGS LIMITED |
| | CENTRICA RESOURCES (UK) LIMITED |
| | |
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| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if | CENTRICA RESOURCES (UK) LIMITED |
| different from 3.): | |
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| 5. Date of the transaction and date | 10 JULY 2009 |
| on which the threshold is crossed | |
| or reached: | |
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| 6. Date on which issuer notified: | 13 JULY 2009 |
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| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed | 28% |
| or reached: | |
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| 8. Notified details: |
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| A: Voting rights attached to shares |
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| Class/type | Situation previous | Resulting situation after the triggering |
| of | to the triggering | transaction |
| shares | transaction | |
| if possible | | |
| using | | |
| the ISIN | | |
| CODE | | |
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| | Number | Number | Number | Number of voting | % of voting |
| | of | of | of | rights | rights |
| | Shares | Voting | shares | | |
| | | Rights | | | |
+ + + +--------------+-----------------------+---------------------+
| | | | Direct | Direct | Indirect | Direct | Indirect |
+--------------+--------------+------------+--------------+------------+----------+----------+----------+
| 0.4p | | | | 43,400,321 | SEE | | SEE |
| ORDINARY | 35,291,993 | 35,291,993 | 43,400,321 | | SECTION | 28.98% | SECTION |
| | | | | | 9 BELOW | | 9 BELOW |
+--------------+ + + + + + + +
| | | | | | | | |
+--------------+--------------+------------+--------------+------------+----------+----------+----------+
+------------------+------------+----------------+------------------+----------------------+
| B: Qualifying Financial Instruments |
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
| |
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| Type of | Expiration | Exercise/ | Number of voting | % of voting |
| financial | date | Conversion | rights that may | rights |
| instrument | | Period | be | |
| | | | acquired if the | |
| | | | instrument is | |
| | | | exercised/ | |
| | | | converted. | |
| | | | | |
+------------------+------------+----------------+------------------+----------------------+
| N/A | | | | |
+------------------+------------+----------------+------------------+----------------------+
+---------------+--------------+------------+------------+----------------+---------------+--------------+
| C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments |
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
| |
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| Type of | Exercise | Expiration | Exercise/ | Number of | % of voting rights |
| financial | price | | Conversion | voting | |
| instrument | | date | | rights | |
| | | | period | instrument | |
| | | | | refers to | |
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| N/A | | | | | Nominal | Delta |
| | | | | | | |
+ + + + + +---------------+--------------+
| | | | | | | |
+---------------+--------------+------------+------------+----------------+---------------+--------------+
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| Total (A+B+C) |
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| Number of voting rights | Percentage of voting rights |
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| 43,400,321 | 28.98% |
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| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the |
| financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: |
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| CENTRICA RESOURCES (UK) LIMITED DIRECTLY HOLDS THE VOTING RIGHTS WHICH ARE THE |
| SUBJECT OF THIS NOTIFICATION AND IT IS A WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF GB GAS HOLDINGS |
| LIMITED. GB GAS HOLDINGS LIMITED IS A WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF CENTRICA HOLDINGS |
| LIMITED, WHICH, IN TURN, IS A WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF CENTRICA PLC. |
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| Proxy Voting: |
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| 10. Name of the proxy holder: | N/A |
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| 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder | N/A |
| will cease to hold: | |
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| 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease | N/A |
| to hold voting rights: | |
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| 13. Additional information: | THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTING RIGHTS IN THE |
| | ISSUER USED TO CALCULATE THE RELEVANT |
| | PERCENTAGES IN THIS NOTIFICATION WAS |
| | 149,769,828 BEING THE NUMBER DISCLOSED |
| | BY THE ISSUER TO THE MARKET ON 18 MARCH |
| | 2009 PURSUANT TO RULE 2.10 OF THE CITY |
| | CODE ON TAKEOVERS AND MERGERS. |
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| 14. Contact name: | PHIL RAPER |
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| 15. Contact telephone number: | 020 7774 1000 |
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Name and signature of duly authorised officer of the listed company responsible
for making this notification
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| SIMON WAITE |
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Date of notification
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| 13 JULY 2009 |
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