Director Share Purchase

Europa Oil & Gas plc / Index: AIM / Epic: EOG / Sector: Oil & Gas 30 January 2014 Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc (`Europa' or `the Company') Director Share Purchase Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the AIM listed oil and gas exploration and development company with a combination of producing and exploration assets in Europe, announces that Hugh Mackay, CEO of the Company, has today acquired 545,880 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company (`Ordinary Shares') at a price of 8.2 pence each. Following this purchase, Hugh is interested in 2,340,883 Ordinary Shares representing 1.14 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company. **ENDS** For further information please visit www.europaoil.com or contact: Hugh Mackay Europa +44 (0) 20 7224 3770 Phil Greenhalgh Europa +44 (0) 20 7224 3770 Matt Goode finnCap Ltd +44 (0) 20 7220 0500 Henrik Persson finnCap Ltd +44 (0) 20 7220 0500 Frank Buhagiar St Brides Media and Finance Ltd +44 (0) 20 7236 1177 Lottie Brocklehurst St Brides Media and Finance Ltd +44 (0) 20 7236 1177 Notes Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc has a diversified portfolio of multi-stage hydrocarbon assets that includes production, exploration and development interests, in countries that are politically stable, have transparent licensing processes, and offer attractive terms. The Company produced 182 boepd in the UK during the 2012/2013 financial year, generating sufficient revenues to cover corporate overheads. Its highly prospective exploration projects include the Wressle prospect in the UK where a well is due to be drilled later in the near term; 100% owned gas exploration prospect (416 bcf) and appraisal project (CPR 277 bcf) in onshore France; and a joint venture with leading independent Kosmos to explore two licences in offshore Ireland in which Europa has identified two prospects with estimated gross mean un-risked indicative resources of 482 million barrels oil and 1.6 billion barrels oil respectively.