Director/PDMR Shareholding

Director/PDMR holdings of securities         

EnQuest PLC (the "Company")

23 March 2015

Notification of Transactions by

Persons Discharging Management Responsibility ('PDMRs').

Pursuant to the Company's obligations under Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.4, the Company hereby notifies the following purchase of some of the Company's £155,245,000 5.50 per cent. Notes due 15 February 2022 (ISIN: XS0880578728, Common Code: 088057872) (together, the "Retail Notes").

The Amjad and Suha Bseisu Foundation, a charitable trust, of which Mr Bseisu is a trustee, notified the Company on 20 March 2015 that it had purchased 300,000 of the Retail Notes at 70 pence per Retail Note, totaling 1.93% of the total Retail Notes.

Prior to this transaction, Double A Limited, a discretionary Trust in which the extended family of Amjad Bseisu have a beneficial interest, held 70,892,495 Ordinary Shares of £0.05 each in the Company (the "Shares"), being 8.83% of the share capital of the Company.

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EnQuest PLC

Stefan Ricketts

General Counsel and Company Secretary

020 7925 4900