Block Admission Update

10 Jan 2007 12:03

Hardy Oil & Gas plc10 January 2007 For immediate release 10 January 2007 Hardy Oil and Gas plc Regulatory Announcement Block Admission a) Name of Company Hardy Oil and Gas plc b) Name of Scheme Hardy Oil and Gas plc 2005 Unapproved Share Option Scheme c) Period of return (from/to) 11 July 2006 - 10 January 2007 d) Number and class of securities not issued under the scheme 2,918,200 ordinary shares of $0.01 each e) Number of securities issued under the block admission during theperiod 1,667 f) Balance under the block admission not yet issued at the end of theperiod 998,333 g) Number and class of securities originally admitted and the date ofblock admission 1,000,000 ordinary shares of $0.01 each on 10 July 2006 For further information please contact: Hardy Oil and Gas plc 020 7471 9850Yogeshwar Sharma, Managing Director This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange