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5 August 2016
Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited. (LSE: GKP)
("Gulf Keystone", "GKP" or "the Company")
Result of the Special General Meeting
The Board of Gulf Keystone Petroleum ("the Board") announces that the resolution proposed at the Company's Special General Meeting ("SGM") held today at 3pm (local time) in Geneva, was duly passed by shareholders.
The result of the SGM is as follows:
Resolution
| Votes for | % | Votes against | % | Total Votes cast | Votes withheld |
1. THAT the authorised share capital of the Company be increased by US$219,105,237 from US$73,000,000 by the creation of 21,910,523,665 new Common Shares, ranking pari passu in all respects as one class of shares with the existing Common Shares. | 251,352,991 | 94.85 | 13,639,906 | 5.15 | 264,992,897 | 92,792 |
The total number of shares in issue at 5 August 2016 was 1,032,433,052.
The full text of the resolution may be found in the Notice of the Special General Meeting, which is available on the Company's website http://www.gulfkeystone.com/.
Enquiries:
Gulf Keystone Petroleum: | +44 (0) 20 7514 1400 |
Anastasia Vvedenskaya, Head of Investor Relations | +44 (0) 20 7514 1411 |
Celicourt Communications: | +44 (0)20 7520 9266 |
Mark Antelme Jimmy Lea |
Notes to Editors:
Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (LSE: GKP) is a leading independent operator and producer in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the operator of the Shaikan field with current production capacity of 40,000 barrels of oil per day.
Disclaimer
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