24 January 2017

Savannah Petroleum PLC

("Savannah" or the "Company")

Completion of 3D Seismic Acquisition

Savannah Petroleum PLC ("Savannah") is pleased to announce the completion of 3D seismic acquisition over a c.800km2 portion of the R3 license area, approximately two weeks ahead of schedule and on budget.

The data acquired will now be processed and interpreted, with further updates being provided in due course.

Andrew Knott, CEO of Savannah Petroleum, said:

"I would like to thank the Savannah operational team and our contractor, BGP Niger SARL, for their hard work and efforts in safe and successful delivery of this large 3D seismic survey. With this now complete, we look forward with great excitement to moving into the drilling operations phase on our Niger project."

For further information contact:

Savannah Petroleum

+44 (0) 20 3817 9844

Andrew Knott, CEO

Jessica Hostage, Corporate Communications

Strand Hanson (Nominated Adviser)

+44 (0) 20 7409 3494

Rory Murphy

James Spinney

Ritchie Balmer

Mirabaud (Joint Broker)

+44 (0) 20 7878 3362

Peter Krens

Rory Scott

Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited (Joint Broker)

+44 (0) 20 7710 7600

Callum Stewart

Ashton Clanfield

Celicourt Communications

+44 (0) 20 7520 9266

Mark Antelme

Jimmy Lea

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