BUDAPEST--Hungarian oil and gas company MOL Nyrt. (MOL.BU) said Thursday that it has agreed with Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank that the option rights arising out of a share option agreement concluded Dec. 3 2013, regarding 2,129,666 MOL Series "A" ordinary shares, will be cash settled in respect of all the shares Dec. 9 2014. The strike price is 44.9987 euros ($55.5684) per share.

MAIN FACTS:

- Simultaneously, MOL and Credit Agricole signed a share option agreement Dec. 4 2014.

- As a result of the transactions, MOL received an American call option and Credit Agricole received a European put option regarding the 2,129,666 MOL Series "A" Ordinary shares. The maturity of both options is one year.

- The strike price of both call and put option is $48.0967 per one share.

- As a result of the transactions, the number of Treasury shares has not changed. MOL directly and indirectly owns 2,842,147 "A" series and 578 "C" series MOL ordinary shares.

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