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Sound Energy PLC

05 September 2017

5 September 2017

Sound Energy plc

("Sound Energy" or the "Company")

CFO Appointment

Sound Energy, the African and European focused upstream gas company, is pleased to announce the appointment of JJ Traynor as Chief Financial Officer of the Company with immediate effect.

In his role as Chief Financial Officer JJ will lead the finance, commercial, business development and investor relations functions. It is intended that JJ will also be appointed as a Director of the Company at a future date, and a further announcement will be made, as appropriate, in due course.

James Parsons, Sound Energy's Chief Executive Officer, commented:

"We are delighted to welcome JJ to the Sound Energy team. He brings a wealth of experience, to the company, both in our industry, and with energy investors. Sound's strategy is delivering for our shareholders and JJ's appointment reinforces our commitment to building a strong management group with real industry experience. I am looking forward to working with JJ, particularly to build on our longstanding ties with our retail investor community and deepen our institutional shareholder following."

Notes for editors

John Joseph ("JJ") Traynor has 29 year's experience in oil & gas. He was Executive Vice President of Investor Relations at Royal Dutch Shell, and part of the finance leadership team there for 12 years. Prior to Shell, JJ was Managing Director of the award-winning oil & gas equity research team at Deutsche Bank. He began his career in 1989 as an exploration geologist at BP, spending 8 years in Mongolia, Norway, Vietnam and the UK. He has a geology degree from Imperial College, London, a PhD from Cambridge University, and he is an alumnus of the INSEAD advanced management programme. JJ holds UK and Irish citizenship.

For further information please contact:

 
 Vigo Communications - PR                   Tel: +44 (0)20 7830 
  Advisor                                                  9700 
  Patrick d'Ancona 
  Chris McMahon 
  Alexandra Roper 
 Sound Energy                      j.parsons@soundenergyplc.com 
  James Parsons, Chief Executive 
  Officer 
 Smith & Williamson - Nominated             Tel: +44 (0)20 7131 
  Adviser                                                  4000 
  Azhic Basirov 
  David Jones 
  Ben Jeynes 
 RBC - Broker                               Tel: +44 (0)20 7653 
  Matthew Coakes                                           4000 
  Martin Copeland 
  Laura White

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