Admission Document & Restoration to Trading

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31 December 2021

Savannah Energy PLC

("Savannah", the "Company" or the "Group")

Publication of Admission Document, Restoration to Trading

and Notice of General Meeting

Savannah Energy PLC, the British independent energy company focused around the delivery of Projects that Matter in Africa, is pleased to announce the publication today of an AIM Admission Document (the "Admission Document") in respect of the Exxon Acquisition and the PETRONAS Acquisition as defined in its announcements of 13 December 2021.

Restoration to trading, and commencement of dealings, on AIM of the Company's existing Ordinary Shares will become effective at 8.00 a.m. today. The Admission Document is available to download from the Company's website in accordance with the AIM Rules: www.savannah-energy.com.

In line with AIM Rule 14, following publication of the Admission Document, Shareholder approval will be sought at the Company's General Meeting to be held at 10.30 a.m. on 24 January 2022, notice of which is set out in the Admission Document.

Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of the Admission Document (Letter from the Non-Executive Chair of Savannah) is included at the end of this announcement. Defined terms are as per the Admission Document. However, Shareholders are strongly encouraged to read the Admission Document in full as part of their voting consideration at the General Meeting.

Strand Hanson Limited is acting as Nominated and Financial Adviser to the Company. finnCap and Panmure Gordon continue to act as joint brokers to the Company.

Andrew Knott, CEO of Savannah Energy, said:

"I am pleased to announce the publication of the Admission Document in relation to acquisition of the upstream and midstream assets of Exxon and PETRONAS in Chad and Cameroon. These are expected to be truly transformational acquisitions for Savannah, more than doubling both our production levels and reserve base, while being significantly accretive to corporate earnings, cashflow and gearing metrics. Going forward we expect our portfolio of high-quality assets to provide plenty of opportunity for future growth, both organic and inorganic, in West and Central Africa. I look forward to providing further updates to Shareholders on our plans in this morning's retail investor call."

Retail Investor Call Today

As announced yesterday, Savannah will host a presentation and Q&A for retail investors this morning at 09:30 GMT. To obtain the dial-in details, please email [email protected]. We regret that for legal reasons, investors located in the United States, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand or Singapore will be unable to participate in the call.

Total Voting Rights

On restoration to trading on AIM of the Company's Ordinary Shares at 8.00 a.m. today, the Company will have 996,408,412 Ordinary Shares in issue. Following admission to trading on AIM of the 251,623,456 new Ordinary Shares to be issued pursuant to the Placing and Subscription (as defined in the Company's announcement of 5.53 p.m. on 30 December 2021), expected to take effect on 7 January 2022, the Company will have 1,248,031,868 Ordinary Shares in issue. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury and accordingly this will be the total number of voting rights in the Company and may be used by Shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Rules and the Transparency Rules. When issued, the Placing Shares and Subscription Shares will rank pari passu with the Existing Ordinary Shares.

LETTER FROM THE NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIR OF SAVANNAH

To the holders of Existing Ordinary Shares and, for information only, to holders of Share Options Dear Shareholder,

PROPOSED ACQUISITION OF EXXONMOBIL'S AND PETRONAS'S ENTIRE UPSTREAM AND MIDSTREAM ASSET PORTFOLIO IN CHAD AND CAMEROON, PLACING AND SUBSCRIPTION OF 251,623,456 NEW ORDINARY SHARES AT 19.35 PENCE PER SHARE, NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING AND RE-ADMISSION OF THE FURTHER ENLARGED SHARE CAPITAL TO TRADING ON AIM FOLLOWING SATISFACTION OF CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

1. Introduction

On 13 December 2021, the Company announced that it had entered into agreements to acquire ExxonMobil's and PETRONAS's interests in the Doba Oil Project and the Chad-Cameroon ETS for considerations of US$360 million (with a further oil price contingent payment of up to US$50 million), subject to other adjustments, and US$266 million subject to working capital and customary adjustments, respectively. Completion of the Exxon Acquisition and the PETRONAS Acquisition are each conditional upon, inter alia, Shareholder approval at the General Meeting, the waiver of pre-emption rights by other participants in the Doba Consortium and approval by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy of the Republic of Chad. Completion of the PETRONAS Acquisition also requires receipt of merger approval from the CEMAC Council for Competition. The Exxon Acquisition and the PETRONAS Acquisition are not inter-conditional.

Under the terms of the Exxon SPA, the Company will acquire a 40.00 per cent. operated interest in the Doba Oil Project, a 40.19 per cent. interest in the Chad Pipeline Company and a 41.06 per cent. interest in the Cameroon Pipeline Company. Under the terms of the PETRONAS SPA, the Company will acquire a 35.00 per cent. interest in the Doba Oil Project, a 30.16 per cent. interest in the Chad Pipeline Company and a 29.77 per cent. interest in the Cameroon Pipeline Company.

In aggregate, Savannah will acquire, on Completion of both the Exxon Acquisition and the PETRONAS Acquisition:

·         a 75.00 per cent. participating interest in the Doba Oil Project which comprises seven producing oil fields with 186.5 MMstb of 2P Reserves and 2C Resources and which produced an average gross daily production of 33.7 Kbopd (net 25.3 Kbopd) in 2020;

·         a 70.34 per cent. equity interest in the Chad Pipeline Company which owns the 178 km section of the Chad-Cameroon ETS that runs from the Doba Oil Project to the Cameroon border; and

·         a 70.83 per cent. equity interest in the Cameroon Pipeline Company which owns the 903 km section of the Chad-Cameroon ETS that runs from the border, through Cameroon and the associated export facilities, including the Kome Kribi 1 FSO.

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