8 September 2016

Sound Energy plc

("Sound Energy" or the "Company")

Tendrara: TE-7 Second Casing Point

Sound Energy, the European and African focused upstream company, is pleased to announce that the second Tendrara well has now been drilled successfully through the salt cap to the second casing point at a measured vertical depth ("MVD") of 2,203 metres and that the 9 5/8" casing is now being set and cemented at the top of the Triassic Lower Salt formation. 

The Company will now proceed to drill towards the third and final casing point, directly above the reservoir.

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The information contained in this announcement has been reviewed by Sound Energy's Moroccan Managing Director, Luca Madeddu, a qualified petroleum geologist.