Issue of Equity

30 Jul 2008 07:00



PRESS RELEASE

For immediate release: 30th July 2008

Matra Petroleum plc ("Matra" or the "Company")

Issue of New Shares on Exercise of Options

Following the exercise of 2,000,000 Options at 2p on 29th July 2008, Matra has duly issued additional ordinary shares of 0.1p.

Application has been made for the admission of the new shares to AIM on 2nd August 2008 and subsequent to this issue Matra will have a total of 463,251,205 shares in issue.

For further information, please contact:

Matra Petroleum www.matrapetroleum.com 

Peter Hind, Managing Director +44 (0) 7990 807 855

Aquila Financial Limited www.aquila-financial.com 

Peter Reilly +44 (0) 118 979 4100

Matra's nominated Advisor is RFC Corporate Finance Ltd - 

Contact: Steve Allen +61894802500