Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd (GUKYF)

[JD400]

Result of the Special General Meeting



The Board of Gulf Keystone Petroleum ("the Board") announces that the resolution proposed at the Company's Special General Meeting ("SGM") held today at 3pm (local time) in Geneva, was duly passed by shareholders.



The result of the SGM is as follows:



Resolution




Votes for


%


Votes against


%


Total Votes cast


Votes withheld

1. THAT the authorised share capital of the Company be increased by US$219,105,237 from

US$73,000,000 by the creation of 21,910,523,665 new Common Shares, ranking pari passu in all

respects as one class of shares with the existing Common Shares.


251,352,991


94.85


13,639,906


5.15


264,992,897


92,792



The total number of shares in issue at 5 August 2016 was 1,032,433,052.



The full text of the resolution may be found in the Notice of the Special General Meeting, which is available on the Company's website http://www.gulfkeystone.com/.



Enquiries:



Gulf Keystone Petroleum:


[phone]

Anastasia Vvedenskaya, Head of Investor Relations


[phone]





Celicourt Communications:


[phone]

Mark Antelme

Jimmy Lea





Notes to Editors:



Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (LSE: GKP) is a leading independent operator and producer in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the operator of the Shaikan field with current production capacity of 40,000 barrels of oil per day.



Disclaimer



This announcement contains certain forward-looking statements. These statements are made by the Company's Directors in good faith based on the information available to them up to the time of their approval of this announcement but such statements should be treated with caution due to inherent uncertainties, including both economic and business factors, underlying such forward-looking information. This announcement has been prepared solely to provide additional information to shareholders to assess the Group's strategies and the potential for those strategies to succeed. This announcement should not be relied on by any other party or for any other purpose.



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