Holding(s) in Company
July 14 2009 - 8:30AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMVPC TIDMIII
RNS Number : 6345V
Venture Production plc
14 July 2009
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| TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi |
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| 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer | VENTURE PRODUCTION |
| of existing shares to which voting rights are | PLC |
| attached: ii | |
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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) | 3I GROUP PLC (Direct) |
| subject to the | 3I INVESTMENTS PLC (Indirect) |
| notification obligation: iii | |
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| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) | N/A |
| (if different from 3.):iv | |
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| 5. Date of the transaction and | 10 JULY 2009 |
| date on | |
| which the threshold is crossed | |
| or | |
| reached: v | |
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| 6. Date on which issuer | 14 JULY 2009 |
| notified: | |
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| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are | 10%, 9%, 8%, 7%, 6% |
| crossed or | |
| reached: vi, vii | |
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| 8. Notified details: |
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| A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix |
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| Class/type of | Situation previous | Resulting situation after the triggering |
| shares | to the triggering | transaction |
| if possible | transaction | |
| using | | |
| the ISIN CODE | | |
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| | Number | Number | Number | Number | % of voting rights x |
| | of | of | of | of | |
| | Shares | Voting | shares | voting | |
| | | Rights | | rights | |
+ + + +-------------------+--------------------------+------------------------------------+
| | | | Direct | Direct xi | Indirect xii | Direct | Indirect |
+----------------+----------------------+----------------------+-------------------+-----------+--------------+------------------------+-----------+
| GB0031423188 | 8,108,328 | 8,108,328 | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil |
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| B: Qualifying Financial Instruments |
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
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| Type of financial | Expiration | Exercise/ | Number of voting | % of voting |
| instrument | date xiii | Conversion | rights that may | rights |
| | | Period xiv | be | |
| | | | acquired if the | |
| | | | instrument is | |
| | | | exercised/ | |
| | | | converted. | |
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| N/A | | | | |
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| C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial |
| Instruments xv, xvi |
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
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| Type of financial | Exercise | Expiration | Exercise/ | Number of voting | % of voting |
| instrument | price | date xvii | Conversion | rights instrument | rights xix, xx |
| | | | period xviii | refers to | |
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| Convertible Bond | 911p | 06/08/2010 | Any | | Nominal | Delta |
| | | | time | | | |
| | | | from | 8,287,596 | | |
| | | | 16/02/2008 | | | |
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| | | | | | 5.53% | |
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| Total (A+B+C) |
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| Number of voting rights | Percentage of voting rights |
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| 8,287,596 | 5.53% |
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| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the |
| financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi |
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| 3i Group plc has a direct beneficial interest in the total number of voting |
| rights disclosed in section 8 above. |
| 3i Investments plc (a wholly owned subsidiary of 3i Group plc) has an indirect |
| interest in the total number of voting rights disclosed in section 8 above in |
| its capacity as the discretionary Investment Manager of 3i Group plc. |
| 3i Holdings plc and 3i plc are both wholly owned subsidiary undertakings of 3i |
| Group plc and parent undertakings of 3i Investments 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 will | N/A |
| cease | |
| to hold: | |
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| 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to | N/A |
| hold | |
| voting rights: | |
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| 13. Additional information: | NOTIFICATION USING TOTAL VOTING |
| | RIGHTS OF 149,769,828 |
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| 14. Contact name: | Ceris Hayward |
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| 15. Contact telephone number: | 020 7975 3414 |
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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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| 14 JULY 2009 |
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