Holding in Company
August 13 2009 - 12:06PM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 4333X
Sibir Energy PLC
13 August 2009
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| TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi |
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| 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer | Sibir Energy plc |
| of existing shares to which voting rights are | |
| attached: ii | |
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| 2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes): |
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| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights | NO |
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| An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may | NO |
| result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting | |
| rights are attached | |
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| An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect | NO |
| to qualifying financial instruments | |
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| An event changing the breakdown of voting rights | NO |
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| Other (please | Correction of figures previously notified | YES |
| specify): | | |
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| 3. Full name of person(s) subject to | Open Joint Stock Company "Gazprom" |
| the | Open Joint Stock Company "Gazprom Neft" |
| notification obligation: iii | Limited Liability Company |
| | GazpromNeftFinance |
| | Limited Liability Company GazpromNeft-ZS |
| | Mak Holdings Limited |
| | |
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| 4. Full name of shareholder(s) | Direct shareholders: Euroclear Nominees |
| (if different from 3.):iv | Limited (33.72%), Mak Holdings Limited |
| | (1%), Limited Liability Company |
| | GazpromNeftFinance (25.66%), Limited |
| | Liability Company GazpromNeft-ZS (14.67%) |
| | Indirect shareholders: Open Joint Stock |
| | Company "Gazprom" (75.05%), Open Joint |
| | Stock Company "Gazprom Neft" (75.05%), MAK |
| | Holdings Limited (25.66%) |
| | |
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| 5. Date of the transaction and date | 21 July 2009 |
| on | |
| which the threshold is crossed or | |
| reached: v | |
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| 6. Date on which issuer notified: | 13 August 2009 |
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| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed | 75% |
| or | |
| reached: vi, vii | |
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+---------------+----------+---+--------+--------+---+---+---------------+----------+---+---------+---+----------+----------+--------+---+--------+
| 8. Notified details: |
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| A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix |
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| Class/type of | Situation previous | Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
| shares | to the triggering | |
| if possible | transaction | |
| using | | |
| the ISIN CODE | | |
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| | Number | Number | Number | Number of | % of voting |
| | of | of | of shares | voting | rights x |
| | Shares | Voting | | rights | |
| | | Rights | | | |
+ + + +------------------------------+-----------------------------------+---------------------+
| | | | Direct | Direct xi | Indirect xii | Direct | Indirect |
+---------------+-----------------------+----------------+------------------------------+-------------+---------------------+--------+------------+
| Ordinary | 180,336,643 | 287,614,037 | 159,774,732 | 159,774,732 | 130,331,276 | 41.33% | 33.72% |
| ISIN: | | | | | | | |
| GB00B04M0Q71 | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | |
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| B: Qualifying Financial Instruments |
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
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| Type of financial | Expiration | Exercise/ | Number of | % of voting |
| instrument | date xiii | Conversion Period xiv | voting | rights |
| | | | rights | |
| | | | that may | |
| | | | be | |
| | | | acquired | |
| | | | if the | |
| | | | instrument | |
| | | | is | |
| | | | exercised/ | |
| | | | converted. | |
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| C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi |
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| Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
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| Type of financial | Exercise price | Expiration | Exercise/ | Number of | % of voting rights xix, |
| instrument | | date xvii | Conversion | voting | xx |
| | | | period xviii | rights | |
| | | | | instrument | |
| | | | | refers to | |
| | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Nominal | Delta |
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| Total (A+B+C) |
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| Number of voting rights | Percentage of voting rights |
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| 290,106,008 | 75.05% |
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| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the |
| financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi |
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| a) OJSC "Gazprom" owns 56% of OJSC "Gazprom Neft" directly |
| b) OJSC "Gazprom" holds a further 20% of OJSC "Gazprom Neft" through Deutsche |
| Bank as nominee holder |
| c) Gazprom Finance B.V., which is a 100% subsidiary of OJSC "Gazprom", owns 17% |
| of OJSC "Gazprom Neft" |
| d) OJSC "Gazprom Neft" controls Mak Holdings Limited |
| e) LLC GazpromNeftFinance is a wholly owned subsidiary of OJSC "Gazprom Neft" |
| f) LLC GazpromNeft-ZS is a wholly owned subsidiary of OJSC "Gazprom Neft" |
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| Proxy Voting: |
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| 10. Name of the proxy holder: | |
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| 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will | |
| cease | |
| to hold: | |
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| 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to | |
| hold | |
| voting rights: | |
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| 13. Additional information: | * Open Joint |
| | Stock Company |
| | "Gazprom |
| | Neft" |
| | ("Gazprom |
| | Neft"), |
| | following |
| | certain |
| | corrections |
| | to the |
| | earlier |
| | disclosed |
| | information, |
| | is indirectly |
| | interested in |
| | 130,331,276 |
| | of the |
| | ordinary 10p |
| | shares in the |
| | Company |
| | ("Ordinary |
| | Shares"), |
| | which are |
| | registered in |
| | the name of |
| | Euroclear |
| | Nominees |
| | Limited, |
| | constituting |
| | approximately |
| | 33.72 per |
| | cent. of the |
| | entire issued |
| | Ordinary |
| | Shares |
| | ("Issued |
| | Shares") and |
| | is entitled |
| | to direct the |
| | exercise of |
| | the voting |
| | rights |
| | attaching to |
| | such |
| | shares.* |
| | Further to |
| | the |
| | announcement |
| | made on 29 |
| | June 2009, |
| | Mak Holdings |
| | Limited (a |
| | company |
| | controlled by |
| | Gazprom |
| | Neft), |
| | following an |
| | acquisition |
| | completed on |
| | 21 July 2009, |
| | directly |
| | controls |
| | Orton Oil |
| | Company |
| | Limited, |
| | which is |
| | currently the |
| | registered |
| | holder of 50 |
| | per cent. of |
| | the issued |
| | share capital |
| | of Bennfield |
| | Limited. |
| | Bennfield |
| | Limited is |
| | the |
| | beneficial |
| | owner of |
| | 99,191,084 of |
| | the Ordinary |
| | Shares, |
| | constituting |
| | approximately |
| | 25.66 per |
| | cent. of the |
| | Issued |
| | Shares. * |
| | Gazprom Neft, |
| | together with |
| | its |
| | subsidiaries |
| | and fully |
| | controlled |
| | entities, is, |
| | for the |
| | avoidance of |
| | doubt, the |
| | beneficial |
| | owner of |
| | approximately |
| | 49.39 per |
| | cent. of the |
| | Issued |
| | Shares. |
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| 14. Contact name: | Anna Sidorkina, Gazprom Neft |
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| 15. Contact telephone number: | +7(903) 146 0425 |
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