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(Stock Code: 00883) POLL RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 26 MAY 2016The AGM was held at the Island Shangri-La Hotel Hong Kong, Pacific Place, Supreme Court Road, Central, Hong Kong on 26 May 2016 at 3:30 p.m., at which all the ordinary resolutions (as proposed) were duly passed by the Shareholders by way of poll.
Reference is made to the Notice of the 2015 Annual General Meeting and the explanatory statement of CNOOC Limited (the "Company") in respect of the proposed general mandates to issue shares and buy back shares and proposed re-election of directors dated 6 April 2016 (collectively the "Notices and Explanatory Statement"). Unless otherwise specified in this announcement, terms used herein shall have the same meanings as defined in the Notices and Explanatory Statement.
POLL RESULTS AT THE AGMThe annual general meeting of the Company (the "AGM") was held at the Island Shangri-La Hotel Hong Kong, Pacific Place, Supreme Court Road, Central, Hong Kong on
26 May 2016 at 3:30 p.m.. The Board is pleased to announce that all the ordinary resolutions (as proposed) were duly passed by the Shareholders by way of poll at the AGM.
As at the date of the AGM, the total number of Shares in issue was 44,647,455,984. There is no Shareholder that is materially interested in any of the proposed resolutions at the AGM, and therefore none of the Shareholder is required to abstain from voting in respect of the relevant resolutions. Accordingly, the total number of Shares entitling the Shareholders to attend and vote in respect of the relevant resolutions at the AGM was 44,647,455,984. There were no Shares in respect of which their holders were entitled to attend and abstain from voting in favor of, or were required to abstain from voting on any of the relevant resolutions at the AGM, under the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.
The vote-taking at the AGM was scrutinized by representatives from Hong Kong
Registrars Limited. The results of the poll at the AGM were as follows:
Ordinary Resolutions | Number of votes (%) | ||
For | Against | ||
A1. | To receive and consider the audited financial statements together with the Report of the Directors and Independent Auditors' Report thereon for the year ended 31 December 2015. | 99.995298 | 0.004702 |
A2. | To declare a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2015. | 99.998961 | 0.001039 |
A3. | To re-elect Mr. Li Fanrong as an Executive Director of the Company. | 99.657473 | 0.342527 |
A4. | To re-elect Mr. Lv Bo as a Non-executive Director of the Company. | 99.300201 | 0.699799 |
A5. | To re-elect Mr. Chiu Sung Hong who has served the Company for more than nine years as an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company. | 99.228627 | 0.771373 |
A6. | To authorise the Board of Directors to fix the remuneration of each of the Directors. | 99.737088 | 0.262912 |
A7. | To re-appoint Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as the independent auditors of the Company and its subsidiaries, and to authorise the Board of Directors to fix their remuneration. | 99.855157 | 0.144843 |
B1. | To grant a general mandate to the Directors to buy back shares in the capital of the Company not exceeding 10% of the total number of issued shares of the Company as at the date of passing of this resolution.* | 99.986822 | 0.013178 |
B2. | To grant a general mandate to the Directors to issue, allot and deal with additional shares in the capital of the Company and to make or grant offers, agreements, options and similar rights to subscribe for or convert any security into shares in the Company which would or might require the exercise of such power, which shall not exceed 20% of the total number of issued shares of the Company as at the date of passing of this resolution.* | 80.316931 | 19.683069 |
B3. | To extend the general mandate granted to the Directors to issue, allot and deal with additional shares of the Company and to make or grant offers, agreements, options and similar rights to subscribe for or convert any security into shares in the Company by the aggregate number of shares bought back, which shall not exceed 10% of the total number of issued shares of the Company as at the date of passing of this resolution.* | 80.886751 | 19.113249 |
* The full text of the Resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is included in the Circular of the Company despatched to shareholders of the Company on 6 April 2016.
By Order of the Board
CNOOC Limited Li JiewenJoint Company Secretary
Hong Kong, 26 May 2016
As at the date of this announcement, the Board comprises the following:
Executive Directors Li Fanrong Wu Guangqi Non-executive Directors Yang Hua (Chairman) Lv Bo | Independent Non-executive Directors Chiu Sung Hong Lawrence J. Lau Tse Hau Yin, Aloysius Kevin G. Lynch |
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