25 September 2015

Sound Oil plc

("Sound Oil" or the "Company")

Director/PDMR Shareholding

Sound Oil, the Mediterranean focused upstream gas company, announces that it was notified on 24 September 2015 that Metano Capital SA ("Metano") had, on that same day, acquired 250,000 ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 14.2 pence per ordinary share.

Metano is a wholly owned subsidiary of Continental Investment Partners SA ("Continental"). Marco Fumagalli, a director of the Company, is Managing Partner of, and a 25% shareholder in, Continental.

As a result of this purchase, Continental and its affiliates are interested in a total of 65,717,162 ordinary shares in the Company, representing 13.05% of Sound Oil's issued ordinary share capital.

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