10 April 2017

Sound Energy plc

("Sound Energy" or the "Company")

Badile: Third Casing Point

Sound Energy, the African and European focused upstream gas company, is pleased to announce that the Badile exploration well, onshore Italy, has now been drilled to the third casing point at a measured depth ("MD") of 2,614 metres and that the 13 3/8" casing has been set and cemented at a MD of 2,608 metres in the Messinian Gallare Marls formation. The Company will now proceed to drill towards the fourth casing point at an MD of approximately 3,490 metres.

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The information contained in this announcement has been reviewed by Sound Energy's Executive Vice President, Brian Mitchener, a chartered petroleum geologist.