Sound Oil plc

Total Voting Rights

For the purposes of the Financial Services Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the Company notifies the market that as at the date of this announcement, the Company's issued share capital consists of 1,515,306,331 ordinary shares with a nominal value of 0.1 pence each ('Ordinary Shares'), with voting rights. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Treasury.

The above figure of 1,515,306,331 Ordinary Shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Enquiries:

Sound Oil plc                                       Tel:  01372 371010

Gerald Orbell

finnCap Ltd                                          Tel:  0207 600 1658

Sarah Wharry