Union Jack Oil PlcLSE: UJO

Response to UK Government Shale Gas Moratorium

· Issued by Union Jack Oil Plc
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Union Jack Oil PLC
04 November 2019
 

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4 November 2019

Union Jack Oil plc

("Union Jack" or the "Company")

Operations Unaffected Following Government Shale Gas Moratorium

Union Jack Oil plc (AIM: UJO), a UK focused onshore conventional hydrocarbon production, development and exploration company, notes the announcement issued by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on behalf of the UK Government, on 2 November 2019, in respect of a shale gas moratorium.

This statement will have no impact on Union Jack's continuing and planned future production, development and exploration operations which are exclusively conventional.

The Company has no intent to engage in hydraulic fracturing operations in England, neither now nor in the future.

For further information, please contact:

Union Jack Oil plc

+44 (0)7787 160 682

David Bramhill

SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP

+44 (0)20 3470 0470

Nominated Adviser and Broker

Richard Morrison

Richard Hail

Stephen Wong

Blytheweigh Communications Limited

+44 (0)20 7138 3204

Financial PR

Tim Blythe

Megan Ray

Jane Lenton

Cassiopeia Services Ltd

+44 (0)7949 690 338

Public Relations

Stefania Barbaglio


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