Circle Oil : Notice of AGM, EGM and Posting of Annual Report

29 June 2016

Circle Oil Plc

('Circle' or the 'Company')

Posting of Annual Report and

Notice of Annual General Meeting and Extraordinary General Meeting

Circle Oil Plc (AIM: COP), the international oil and gas exploration, development and production company, announces that the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2015, the Notice of Annual General Meeting and a Notice of an Extraordinary General Meeting to be convened under Section 1111 of the Irish Companies Act 2014 will be posted to shareholders shortly.

The Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 10.00am on Wednesday 27 July 2016 at the Clarion Hotel, Lapps Quay, Cork and will be immediately followed by the Section 1111 Extraordinary General Meeting.

Electronic copies of the Annual Report and Financial Statements, Notice of Annual General Meeting and Extraordinary General Meeting will shortly be available for download from the Company's website atwww.circleoil.net.

For further information contact:

Circle Oil plc (+44 20 7182 4913)

Mitch Flegg, CEO

Investec (+44 20 7597 5970)

Chris Sim

George Price

James Rudd

Jonathan Wynn

Murray (+353 1 498 0300)

Joe Heron

Pat Walsh

Notes to Editors

Circle Oil plc (AIM: COP) is an international oil & gas exploration, development and production company holding a portfolio of assets in Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt with a combination of low-risk, near-term production, and significant upside exploration potential. The Company's shares were admitted to trading on AIM in October 2004. The Company has assets in the Rharb Basin, Morocco; the Ras Marmour Permit in southern Tunisia; the Beni Khalled permit in northern Tunisia, the Mahdia Permit offshore Tunisia and the NW Gemsa permit in Zeit Bay area of Egypt.

Further information on Circle is available on its website at www.circleoil.net.