Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. Holding Statement on DNO Proposal (6608F)
July 29 2016 - 5:04AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 6608F
Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd.
29 July 2016
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29 July 2016
Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited. (LSE: GKP)
("Gulf Keystone", "GKP" or "the Company")
Holding Statement
Proposal from DNO ASA
Gulf Keystone confirms that it has received a proposal from DNO
ASA.
The Board of Gulf Keystone is currently reviewing this proposal
and will update the market on its response in due course.
Enquiries:
Gulf Keystone Petroleum: +44 (0) 20 7514 1400
Anastasia Vvedenskaya, Head
of Investor Relations +44 (0) 20 7514 1411
Celicourt Communications: +44 (0)20 7520 9266
Mark Antelme
Jimmy Lea
or visit: www.gulfkeystone.com
Notes to Editors:
Keith Lough
Keith Lough (55) read Economics at Edinburgh University before
qualifying as a chartered certified accountant with British Gas in
1985. He subsequently obtained an MSc in Finance from London
Business School. In 1988 Keith joined LASMO PLC where over the
course of the next eleven years he held a range of senior
commercial, financial and operational roles, including MD of the
North Sea, and then Europe and North Africa before LASMO was sold
to ENI.
Keith was CFO of PetroKazakhstan for two years before being
headhunted for the CFO role of British Energy, the nuclear power
company. At British Energy he oversaw the complex restructuring of
the business and the interaction with the UK Government and its
creditors. In 2004 Keith founded coal bed methane focused Composite
Energy Ltd, which was acquired by Dart in 2011.
The team from Composite spent a year at Hutton Energy, during
which time Keith was CEO. Keith is currently a Non-Executive
Director of Rockhopper Exploration PLC, Cairn Energy PLC, Papua
Mining PLC and the UK Gas and Electricity Markets Authority
(Ofgem).
He was appointed to the Board of Gulf Keystone in December
2015.
Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (LSE: GKP) is a leading independent
operator and producer in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the
operator of the Shaikan field with current production capacity of
40,000 barrels of oil per day.
Disclaimer
This announcement contains certain forward-looking statements.
These statements are made by the Company's Directors in good faith
based on the information available to them up to the time of their
approval of this announcement but such statements should be treated
with caution due to inherent uncertainties, including both economic
and business factors, underlying such forward-looking information.
This announcement has been prepared solely to provide additional
information to shareholders to assess the Group's strategies and
the potential for those strategies to succeed. This announcement
should not be relied on by any other party or for any other
purpose.
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