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RNS Number : 6189E 
Circle Oil PLC 
23 December 2009 
 

 
 
23 December 2009 
CIRCLE OIL PLC 
("Circle" or the "Company") 
 
 
Grant of Share Options 
 
 
The Board of Circle Oil Plc (AIM: COP), the international oil and gas 
exploration, development, and production company, announces that it has 
yesterday (22 December 2009 ) granted options over ordinary shares in the 
capital of the Company, at an exercise price of GBP0.30 each, to the following 
directors and applicable employees, as defined in the AIM Rules for Companies: 
 
 
 
 
Director/Applicable EmployeeNo. of Options 
Thomas Anderson - Chairman                              500,000 
David Hough - Chief Executive Officer 1,000,000 
Professor Chris Green - Chief Operating Officer               3,000,000 
Brendan McMorrow - Chief Financial Officer500,000 
 
 
Options granted are not exercisable for a period of one year from date of grant 
and may then be exercised for a period of five years thereafter. 
 
 
Following the grant of the above noted options the interests of each of the 
above in the capital of the Company are as follows: 
 
 
+----------------------+----------------+------------------+---------------+ 
|                      |  No. of Shares |      % of issued |        No. of | 
|                      |                |           shares |       Options | 
+----------------------+----------------+------------------+---------------+ 
| Thomas Anderson      |     20,000,000 |             4.84 |     2,500,000 | 
+----------------------+----------------+------------------+---------------+ 
| David Hough          |     12,550,000 |             3.04 |     6,500,000 | 
+----------------------+----------------+------------------+---------------+ 
| Professor Chris      |              - |               -  |    17,000,000 | 
| Green                |                |                  |               | 
+----------------------+----------------+------------------+---------------+ 
| Brendan McMorrow     |              - |               -  |     2,000,000 | 
+----------------------+----------------+------------------+---------------+ 
 
 
 
 
For further information contact: 
 
 
Circle Oil plc (+44 20 7638 9571) 
David Hough, CEO 
 
 
Collins Stewart Europe Limited (+44 20 7523 8350) 
Adrian Hadden 
 
 
Fox-Davies Capital (+44 20 7936 5230) 
Daniel Fox-Davies 
 
 
Citigate Dewe Rogerson (+44 20 7638 9571) 
Martin Jackson 
George Cazenove 
 
 
 
Notes to Editors 
 
 
Circle Oil Plc 
 
 
Circle Oil Plc (AIM: COP) is an international oil & gas exploration, development 
and production 
Company with an expanding portfolio of assets in Morocco, 
Tunisia Internationally, the Company 
has continued to expand its portfolio over the past 2 years and now has assets 
in the Rharb Basin, Morocco; the Ras Marmour Permit in southern Tunisia; the 
Mahdia Permit offshore Tunisia; the Grombalia Permit in northern Tunisia; the 
Zeit Bay area of Egypt and the Owambo Basin, Namibia. Circle also has the 
largest licence holding of any Company in Oman. In addition to its highly 
prospective Block 52 offshore, the Company also has an ongoing exploration 
program in Block 49 onshore. 
 
 
The Company's strategy is to locate and secure additional licenses in 
prospective hydrocarbon provinces and through targeted investment programmes, 
monetise the value in those assets for the benefit of shareholders. This could 
be achieved through farm-outs to selected partners who would then invest in and 
continue the development of the asset into production, or Circle may itself opt 
to use its own expertise to appraise reserves and bring assets into production, 
generating sustained cash flow for further investment. 
 
 
Further information on Circle Oil is available on its website 
at www.circleoil.net 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This information is provided by RNS 
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange 
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