27 February 2012

Sound Oil plc

("Sound Oil" or "the Company")

Director's dealing

Sound Oil, the upstream oil and gas company with assets in Italy and Indonesia, was notified on 24 February 2012 that on that date Tony Heath, a director of the Company, acquired 1,300,000 ordinary shares in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at a price of 1.4p per share.  Following this purchase, Mr Heath holds 2,127,586 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.10% of the Company's issued share capital.

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