Trinity Regulatory News (TRIN)

Embargoed 08.05a.m.

11 January 2017

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THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS AN ADVERTISEMENT AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A PROSPECTUS OR PROSPECTUS EQUIVALENT DOCUMENT. NOTHING HEREIN SHALL CONSTITUTE AN OFFERING OF EXISTING ORDINARY SHARES, NEW ORDINARY SHARES OR CONVERTIBLE LOAN NOTES.

Unless otherwise defined, capitalised terms used in this Announcement have the same meaning as set out in the Fundraising announcement issued by the Company on Friday, 9 December 2016.

Trinity Exploration & Production plc

("Trinity" or "the Group" or "the Company")

Completion of the Restructuring and Total Voting Rights

The Company is pleased to announce that the Restructuring is now completed.

The gross proceeds from the Fundraising will be applied in part towards the payments to creditors under the Creditors Proposal and the Settlement Agreements. The balance of the gross proceeds alongside current cash balances and organic cash flow will be deployed towards certain one-off restructuring and infrastructure costs and the re-initiation of drilling activities.

The Company intends to move forward with a work programme to sustain and grow current production levels from an existing wide inventory of opportunities for workovers, recompletions and swabbing on its current production base and from identified locations for new drilling. This is expected to comprise:

· The recommencement of the onshore drilling programme at the rate of four new onshore wells per year, recompletions, onshore workovers, offshore workovers and the recommencement of swabbing activities onshore during 2017, subject to market conditions, most notably the prevailing oil price.

· These combined activities have the potential to grow production from current levels of c. 2,600 barrels of oil per day, which comprises 3.6 per cent. of total countrywide production in Trinidad and Tobago, to an eventual run-rate of 3,000 barrels of oil per day.

· The recommencement of new offshore drilling could occur as early as late 2018, subject to market conditions.

· Additionally, the Company anticipates undertaking certain one-off capital expenditure works (including major repairs and maintenance to its infrastructure, including equipment).

The Restructuring enables Trinity to go forward with a significantly deleveraged balance sheet. The like for like net debt position (outstanding debt plus long term liabilities plus current liabilities minus cash minus current assets) will reduce from US$35.5 million as at 31 October 2016 to a pro forma net debt position of approximately US$9.2 million post-completion of the Restructuring. The equivalent net position excluding long term liabilities would be a net cash position of approximately US$4.5 million.

Bruce A. I. Dingwall CBE, Executive Chairman of Trinity, commented:

"The completion of the Restructuring brings to an end a period of prolonged uncertainty for Trinity, and will provide a strong foundation for the Company to move forward and to develop the Group's valuable interests across the Onshore, East Coast and West Coast production areas for the benefit of Shareholders and the Company's other stakeholders."

For the purposes of the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules ("DTRs"), the issued ordinary share capital of the Company following Admission will consist of 282,399,986 Ordinary Shares of US$0.01 with voting rights attached (one vote per Ordinary Share). There are no Ordinary Shares held in treasury. This total voting rights figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine whether they are required to notify their interests in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the DTRs.

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About Trinity

Trinity is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company focused solely on Trinidad and Tobago. Trinity operates producing and development assets both onshore and offshore, in the shallow water West and East Coasts of Trinidad. Trinity's portfolio includes current production, significant near-term production growth opportunities from low risk developments and multiple exploration prospects with the potential to deliver meaningful reserves/resources growth. The Company operates all of its nine licences and, across all of the Group's assets, management's estimate of 2P reserves as at the end of 2015 was 20.9 MMbbls (excluding the Guapo-1 license which was disposed of in April 2016). Group 2C contingent resources are estimated to be 19.8 MMbbls. The Group's overall 2P plus 2C volumes are therefore 40.7 MMbbls.

Trinity is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker TRIN.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

This Announcement has been issued by and is the sole responsibility of the Company. The information contained in this Announcement is for background purposes only and does not purport to be full or complete. No reliance may or should be placed by any person for any purpose whatsoever on the information contained in this Announcement or on its accuracy or completeness. The information in this Announcement is subject to change.

Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this Announcement.

This Announcement does not constitute, or form part of, a prospectus relating to the Company, nor does it constitute or contain any invitation or offer to any person, or any public offer, to subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire any shares in the Company or advise persons to do so in any jurisdiction, nor shall it, or any part of it form the basis of or be relied on in connection with any contract or as an inducement to enter into any contract or commitment with the Company.

The content of this Announcement has not been approved by an authorised person within the meaning of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended).

This Announcement is not for publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in or into the United States of America ("United States" or "US"). This Announcement is not an offer of securities for sale into the United States. The securities referred to herein (including for the avoidance of doubt the Existing Ordinary Shares, the New Ordinary Shares and the Convertible Loan Notes) have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States, except pursuant to an applicable exemption from registration. No public offering of securities is being made in the United States.

This Announcement is not for release, publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, in, into or from the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Ireland or the republic of South Africa or any other jurisdiction in which such publication, release or distribution would be unlawful (a "Prohibited Jurisdiction"). This Announcement and the information contained herein are not for release, publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, to persons in a Prohibited Jurisdiction unless permitted pursuant to an exemption under the relevant local law or regulation in any such jurisdiction. This Announcement has been issued by and is the sole responsibility of the Company.

SPARK which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the FCA, is acting exclusively for the Company and no-one else in connection with the Fundraising and will not regard any other person (whether or not a recipient of this Announcement) as a client in relation to the Fundraising and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to its clients or for providing advice in relation to the Fundraising, or any other matter referred to herein. Its responsibilities as the Company's nominated adviser under the AIM Rules for Companies and the AIM Rules for Nominated Advisers are owed to the London Stock Exchange and the Company and not to any other person in respect of his decision to acquire Existing Ordinary Shares, New Ordinary Shares or Convertible Loan Notes in reliance on any part of this Announcement. Its responsibilities as the Company's financial adviser are owed to the Company and not to any other person. No representation or warranty, express or implied, is made by SPARK as to any of the contents of this Announcement.

Cantor Fitzgerald which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the FCA, is acting exclusively for the Company and no-one else in connection with the Fundraising and will not regard any other person (whether or not a recipient of this Announcement) as a client in relation to the Fundraising and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to its clients or for providing advice in relation to the Placing and Subscription, or any other matter referred to herein. Its responsibilities as the Company's bookrunner are owed to the Company and not to any other person in respect of their decision to Existing Ordinary Shares, New Ordinary Shares or Convertible Loan Notes in reliance on any part of this Announcement. No representation or warranty, express or implied, is made by Cantor Fitzgerald as to any of the contents of this Announcement.

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