4 May 2017

Sound Energy plc

("Sound Energy" or the "Company")

Badile: Fourth 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 fourth casing point and that the 9 5/8" casing has been set and cemented at a measured depth of 3,379 metres in the Eocene Scaglia formation marls and mudstones. The Company will now proceed to drill the last section towards the reservoir with a target total depth of approximately 4,450 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.