LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — (Marketwire) — 08/02/11 — Heritage Oil Plc (TSX: HOC)(LSE: HOIL), an independent upstream exploration and production company, announces that on 1 August 2011 it purchased 277,550 Ordinary Shares to be held in treasury at 258.6641 pence per share (with a price range of 253.2 and 262.5 pence per share). Following this purchase, Heritage Oil Plc holds 26,840,494 Ordinary Shares in treasury, and has 262,907,536 Ordinary Shares in issue (excluding treasury shares) as well as 2,811,408 exchangeable shares of no par value of Heritage Oil Corporation each carrying one voting right in Heritage.
The total number of voting rights in Heritage, excluding treasury shares, as at 1 August 2011 is 265,718,944.
The above figure (265,718,944) may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Heritage under the FSA–s Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
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Heritage Oil Plc
Tony Buckingham
CEO
+44 (0) 1534 835 400
Heritage Oil Plc
Paul Atherton
CFO
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Pelham Bell Pottinger – PR – Europe
Nick Lambert
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Pelham Bell Pottinger – PR – Europe
Duncan Mayall
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CHF Investor Relations – Investor Relations – Canada
Cathy Hume
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CHF Investor Relations – Investor Relations – Canada
Jeanny So
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