On December 23, 2011 KazMunaiGas Exploration Production completed transactions on purchase from November 21 to 160,473 own preferred shares KZ1P51460114, KASE

23.12.11 18:04
/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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume of deals Date / Period of special Price, Number, Number trades of -------- --------- KZT units deals KZT mln USD th.* ------------------------------ --------- --------- ------ -------- --------- 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 --- ------------------------- --------- --------- ------ -------- --------- Total: - 2,073,276 1,602 37,135.7 252,425.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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]