Grant of Share Options

2 Jun 2005 10:03

Desire Petroleum PLC02 June 2005 Desire Petroleum plc ("Desire Petroleum" or "the Company") Grant of Share Options Desire Petroleum yesterday granted options to subscribe for a total of 550,000ordinary shares of the Company at 33p per share. The share options are allexercisable between the third and seventh anniversary of grant. The shareoptions were granted to the Company Secretary and the Directors of the Company,as follows: Number of shareName options granted Dr Colin Phipps 100,000Dr Ian Duncan 100,000Mr Stephen Phipps 100,000Mr Andrew Windam 100,000Mr Lewis Cliffton 100,000Mrs Anna Neve 50,000 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange