/KASE, December 23, 11/ - As previously informed, on December 20, 2011
basedon thirteenth special trading sessions held in Kazakhstan Stock
(KASE) trading session on acquisition of preferred shares KZ000A0RMTC3
(KASE official list third category, RDGZp) of Exploration Production
(Astana) by the issuer, the buyerand represented by VISOR Capital
(Almaty) formally intention to satisfy 131 orders from shareholders
of Production for selling of 160,743 preferred shares.
Settlements on deals concluded at the mentioned special trades must
be completed on December 23, 2011 (according to ΠΆ+3 settlement scheme).
According to Central Securities Depository (Almaty), all deals were
executed. The purchase amount made up KZT2,095,226,957.61 (equivalent
of USD14,146,424.67 at the current exchange rate).
The mentioned trading sessions are part of KazMunaiGas Exploration
preferred shares buy back program.
As was previously informed, KazMunaiGas Exploration Production approved
its preferred shares buy back program to be implemented through consequent
separate thirty-day specialized trades on KASE in compliance with the
rules. The program will be completed till December 31, 2011. The full
KazMunaiGas Exploration Production press release is available at
http://www.kase.kz/news/show/1097005
KASE news of December 20, 2011 From November 21 to December 20 KazMunaiGas
Exploration Production bought back on KASE 160,473 preferred shares
KZ1P51460114 (KZ000A0RMTC3, RDGZp) at KZT13,056.57 per is available
at
http://www.kase.kz/en/news/show/1155882
The total number of authorized and placed preferred shares of KazMunaiGas
Exploration Production currently makes up 4,136,107 units. The buyer intends
purchase up to 100% of the mentioned quantity of shares.
The table below shows results of all thirteen special trades, held under the
mentioned buy back program.
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Volume of deals
Date / Period of special Price, Number, Number
trades of -------- ---------
KZT units deals KZT mln USD th.*
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In 2010:
1. March 9 21,060.52 122,733 46 2,584.8 17 568,3
2. March 10 21,180.06 92,771 30 1,964.9 13 358,5
3. March 11 - April 9 21,988.89 65,224 67 1,434.2 9 781,1
4. April 30 - May 28 17,093.43 26,384 20 451.0 3 070,9
5. July 01-30 17,980.93 456,148 337 8,202.0 55 621,6
6. September 1-30 15,472.39 220,598 165 3,413.2 23 133,9
7. November 1-30 17,407.98 362,355 275 6,307.9 42 736,2
In 2011:
8. January 1-31 19,253.25 236,430 200 4,552.0 31 019,1
9. April 4 - May 4 19,773.24 196,172 178 3,879.0 26 586,4
10. May 27 - June 27 17,857.02 97,003 92 1,732.2 11 878,1
11. August 1-31 13,824.81 9,320 14 128.8 877,7
12. September 26 - October 25 14,116.40 27,665 47 390.5 2 646,9
13. November 21 - December 20 13,056.57 160,473 131 2,095.2 14 146,4
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Total: - 2,073,276 1,602 37,135.7 252,425.1
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- Based on exchange rates on deals execution dates.
By trades results the buyer purchased 2,073,276 preferred shares to the amount
of KZT37,135,715,544.31 - 50.1 % from the total number of for buy back shares.
Details of the shares issue are available on KASE website at
http://www.kase.kz/en/shares/show/RDGZp
[2011-12-23]