Sino-Aus Financial Contribution

12 April 2016

Altona Energy Plc

("Altona" or the "Company")

Sino-Aus Financial Contribution

Altona (AIM: ANR), the owner of a world class coal resource in South Australia, is pleased to advise shareholders that its joint venture partner, Sino-Aus Energy Group Ltd, Hong Kong ("Sino-Aus HK") has paid the majority of its first tranche financial contribution to the joint venture company, Arckaringa Coal Chemical Joint Venture Co Pty Ltd.

Sino-Aus HK has made a payment of AUD$4 million with the balance of AUD$1.4 million expected before the end of April, once approval for this transfer has been received from the Chinese government.

Further, Mr Qinfu Zhang, Executive Chairman of Altona and Mr Yin, Chairman of Sino-Aus HK are attending the Liquefied Natural Gas Conference in Perth this week (for more details visit: http://lng18.org/), which will be followed on 15 April with a meeting in Adelaide with Parsons Brinckerhoff (Australia), the mining engineering specialists, to discuss the initial planning phase for the drilling programme at the Arckaringa Project.

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About Altona

Altona is listed on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market. Its principal focus is on the evaluation and development of the Company's flagship Arckaringa Project to exploit the significant coal resources contained in three exploration licences covering 2,500 sq. kms in the northern portion of the Permian Arckaringa Basin in South Australia. The Project is designed to produce syngas products for the Australian market and export from a resource exceeding 7.8 billion tonnes of coal (1.3 billion tonnes JORC compliant).