/KASE, July 21, 11/ - Tethys Petroleum Limited (Channel Islands), whose common
shares are officially listed at Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has provided
KASE with the following press-release of July 20, 2011:
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Tethys Petroleum Limited (Tethys Petroleum, or the Company), and independent
oil and gas exploration and production company whose principal activities
include the exploration for, and the acquisition, development and production of
oil and natural gas resources in Central Asia, today announces that it has
published and lodged with the UK Financial Services Authority a copy of its
prospectus (the "Prospectus") prepared in connection with the admission of its
entire issued ordinary share capital to the standard category of the Official
List of the Financial Services Authority and to trading on the main market of
the London Stock Exchange ("Admission").
It is expected that admission will become effective, and that dealings on the
main market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "TPL" will
commence at 8:00 a.m. on 25 July 2011, subject to receipt of final approval from
the Financial Services Authority and the London Stock Exchange.
The primary listing for the ordinary shares of Tethys Petroleum will continue to
be the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada and the Company will continue to retain
its secondary listing on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange.
The Company is not raising any funds or issuing any new shares in connection
with its listing in London and, accordingly, the interests of existing
shareholders of the Company will not be diluted as a result of Admission. There
will remain 260,629,769 ordinary shares of the Company in issue upon Admission
becoming effective.
Copies of the Prospectus will be available free of charge at the offices of
Ashurst LLP, Broadwalk House, 5 Appold Street, London EC2A 2HA up to and
including Admission. The Prospectus has also been submitted to the National
Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at
www.hemscott.com/nsm.do . A copy of the prospectus will be made available on
sedar at www.sedar.com and Tethys Petroleum's Website at
www.tethyspetroleum.com .
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The full version of the press-release is available on KASE website, at
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http://www.kase.kz/files/emitters/GG_TPL_/gg_tpl_reliz_200711.pdf - in
Russian;
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http://www.kase.kz/files/emitters/GG_TPL_/gg_tpl_reliz_200711_e.pdf - in
English.
[2011-07-21]