2014 AGM Result

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17 July 2014

 

 

 

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (AIM: GKP)

("Gulf Keystone" or "the Company")

 

Results of 2014 Annual General Meeting

 

 

The Board of Gulf Keystone, a leading independent E&P operator in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, is pleased to announce that all the resolutions proposed at the Company's Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held today at 12.00 noon (local time) in Paris, were duly passed by shareholders.

Resolutions 4 and 5, relating to the re-appointment of Messrs Todd Kozel and Mark Hanson as Directors of the Company, were withdrawn by the Chairman as they had advised the Company that they had withdrawn their consent to be considered for re-election as directors of the Company.

The results of the AGM are as follows:

Resolution	VOTES FOR	%	VOTES AGAINST	%	VOTES TOTAL	VOTES WITHHELD
1. To re‑appoint Deloitte LLP as the Company's auditor and that the Board of directors of the Company be authorised to determine the auditor's remuneration	277,041,291	96.26	10,752,584	3.74	287,793,875	6,729,500
2. To re-elect Mr Andrew Simon as a Director	274,321,774	95.34	13,396,139	4.66	287,717,913	6,833,500
3. To re-elect Mr John Gerstenlauer as a Director	190,113,312	79.18	49,983,930	20.82	240,097,242	54,454,172
6. To approve the Gulf Keystone Petroleum Long‑Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP"), and the Directors be authorised to do all acts and things as they may consider necessary or desirable to bring the LTIP into effect	187,453,137	66.97	92,449,410	33.03	279,902,547	14,360,908
7. To approve the Remuneration Policy for Directors set out the Annual Report for the year ended 31st December 2013	264,847,175	94.54	15,293,715	5.46	280,140,890	14,391,049
8. To approve the Annual Report on Remuneration for Directors as set out in the Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2013	225,106,996	78.41	61,979,408	21.59	287,086,404	7,445,536
9. To approve the Company's Bye-Laws be amended pursuant to Bye-Law 166 by deleting Bye-Laws 89 to 91 in their entirety and replacing with new Bye-Laws 89, 90, 91 and adding new Bye-Law 109A as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting	274,989,189	95.82	12,010,213	4.18	286,999,402	7,538,030
10. To approve the authorised share capital be increased to US$72,000,000 through the creation of 100,000,000 new common shares of $0.01 each as set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting	224,177,591	77.95	63,428,618	22.05	287,606,209	6,930,733

 

 

The full text of the resolutions may be found in the Notice of the Annual General Meeting, copies of which are available on the Company's website http://www.gulfkeystone.com/ and at http://www.agm-gulfkeystone.com.

 

 

 

Enquiries:

 

Gulf Keystone Petroleum:	+44 (0) 20 7514 1400
Anastasia Vvedenskaya, Head of Investor Relations
Bell Pottinger	+44 (0) 20 7861 3232
Mark Antelme / Henry Lerwill
The Dilenschneider Group Jeffrey Keegan:     +1 212-922-0900 Terence Franklin:  +44 (0) 779548438

 

or visit: www.gulfkeystone.com

 

 

Notes to Editors:

 

·      Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (LSE: GKP) is an independent oil and gas exploration, development and production company focused on exploration in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

 

·      Gulf Keystone Petroleum International (GKPI) holds Production Sharing Contracts for four exploration blocks in Kurdistan, the Shaikan, Sheikh Adi, Ber Bahr and Akri-Bijeel blocks.

 

·      GKPI is the Operator of the Shaikan Block, which is a major commercial discovery, with a working interest of 75% and is partnered with Kalegran Ltd. (a 100% subsidiary of MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas plc.) and Texas Keystone Inc., which have working interests of 20% and 5% respectively.  Texas Keystone Inc. holds its interest in trust for Gulf Keystone, pending transfer of its interest to the Company.

 

·      Gulf Keystone is moving into the large-scale phased development of the Shaikan field targeting 100,000 bopd of production capacity during Phase 1 of the Shaikan Field Development Plan following its approval in June 2013.

 

 

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