Highlands Natural Resources : Issue of shares

24 January 2018

Highlands Natural Resources plc ('Highlands' or 'the Company')

Issue of shares

Highlands, the London listed oil and gas company, announces that, pursuant to the exercise of warrants, an application has been made for an additional 50,000 ordinary shares in the Company to be admitted to trading on the Official List of the UK Listing Authority by way of a Standard Listing and to trading on the London Stock

Exchange's Main Market for listed securities ("Admission"). Admission is expected to take place on 29

January 2018.

Following Admission, the New Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares of 5 pence each in issue including the right to receive all dividends and other distributions declared and the total number of ordinary shares in Highlands with voting rights will be 116,127,700. This figure may be used by Highlands shareholders as the denominator for calculations to determine if they have a notifiable interest in Highlands under the Disclosure and Transparency Rules, or if such interest has changed.

**ENDS**

For further information:

Highlands Natural Resources plc Robert Price

[phone]

Cantor Fitzgerald Europe David Porter

[phone]

St Brides Partners Ltd Lottie Wadham Hugo de Salis

[phone]

Notes to Editors

Highlands (LSE: HNR.L) is a London-listed natural resources company with a portfolio of high-potential oil, gas and helium assets and technologies. The company's core projects include:

• • East Denver Niobrara: a horizontal oil and gas project targeting the Niobrara shale formation in a well-studied area of the Denver Julesburg Basin. The Company is currently producing oil and gas from its first two wells in the project, completed in late 2017, and is planning to drill more wells.

• • DT Ultravert: a re-fracking and parent well protection technology with four patents allowed and additional patents pending in both the United States and internationally. Highlands is advancing

commercial tests with a range of oil and gas operators and service providers to commercialize DT Ultravert technology.

• • Helios Two: a 105,000+ acre helium and natural gas prospect in SE Montana.