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SHARE CAPITAL INCREASE

African Petroleum Corporation Limited ("African Petroleum"

or the "Company") advises that 26,667 new ordinary shares

have been issued to current and former employees of the

Company upon the exercise of share options at a price of NOK

4.00 per share.

The new shares will be issued in the VPS on the Company's

ordinary ISIN AU000000AOQ0. The New Shares have been

validly and legally issued as fully paid shares in

accordance with Australian law and the Constitution of the

Company. As a result of the share capital increase, the

Company has 117,924,204 shares in issue. This figure may be

used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for

the calculations by which they will determine if they are

required to notify their interest in, or a change to their

interest in the Company. The shares of the Company have no

par value.

For further information, please contact:

Jens Pace, Chief Executive Officer

Stephen West, Chief Financial Officer

Tel: +44 20 3655 7810

Angeline Hicks, Company Secretary

Tel: + 61 401 489 883

Media Contacts:

Buchanan

Ben Romney/Chris Judd

Tel: +44 207 466 5000

About African Petroleum

African Petroleum is an independent oil and gas exploration

company with an equity interest in eight licences in four

countries offshore West Africa (Senegal, The Gambia, Côte

d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone). The Company's assets are located

in proven hydrocarbon basins in the West African Transform

Margin and the Atlantic Margin, where several discoveries

have been made in recent years. The Company is working with

its partner Ophir Energy (operator) on the CI-513 licence in

Côte d'Ivoire to drill an exploration well in May 2017.

For more information about African Petroleum, please see

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