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Wentworth Resources Limited ("Wentworth" or the "Company"), the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE: WRL) and AIM (AIM: WRL) listed independent, East Africa-focused oil and gas company, is pleased to announce that, further to the announcement made on Wednesday, 17 May 2017, regarding completion of the private placement of new common shares in the Company and the announcements made on Thursday, 18 May 2017, and Monday, 22 May 2017, regarding the timing of the admission to trading of the new shares, 16,953,496 new fully-paid common shares have now been legally and validly authorized and issued and admitted to trading on AIM and the Oslo Stock Exchange.
The total issued and outstanding share capital of the Company is now 186,488,465 common shares of no par value. This figure may be used by shareholders in the Company 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 Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules or the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.