TIDMPMO TIDMEO.

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Premier Oil PLC

16 January 2012

NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN, INTO OR FROM ANY JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO THE SAME WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE RELEVANT LAWS OF SUCH JURISDICTION

16 January 2012

PREMIER OIL PLC

COMPLETION OF THE RECOMMENDED ACQUISITION OF ENCORE OIL PLC BY PREMIER OIL PLC

Premier Oil plc (“Premier”) is pleased to announce that the Reduction Court Order has been delivered to the Registrar of Companies today, 16 January 2012, and the scheme of arrangement (the “Scheme”) under Part 26 of …