18 October 2024                                   

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (LSE: GKP)

("Gulf Keystone", "GKP", "the Group" or "the Company")

Transaction in Own Shares

Gulf Keystone, a leading independent operator and producer in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, announces that on 17 October 2024, it purchased 16,595 common shares of US$1.00 each in the Company ("Shares") on the London Stock Exchange through Canaccord Genuity Limited in accordance with the terms of its share buyback programme announced on 8 October 2024 (the "Buyback Programme").

The repurchased Shares will be cancelled. Following the cancellation of the repurchased Shares, the Company will have 217,005,286 Shares in issue, with no Shares held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of Shares carrying voting rights will be 217,005,286.

The above figure of 217,005,286 may be used by shareholders 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 under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (as it forms part of UK law pursuant to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018), the table below contains detailed information of the individual trades made by Canaccord Genuity Limited on 17 October 2024 as part of the Buyback Programme.

Individual transactions:

Enquiries:

Further information on Gulf Keystone is available on its website: www.gulfkeystone.com