Notification of Transactions by Persons Discharging Management Responsibility (‘PDMRs’).

Directors/PDMR Shareholding

EnQuest PLC (the “Company”)
28 December 2011


Pursuant to the Company’s obligations under Disclosure and Transparency Rule 3.1.4, the Company hereby notifies that the following Director purchased Ordinary Shares of £0.05 each in the Company (the “Shares”):

Double A Limited, a discretionary Trust in which the extended family of Amjad Bseisu have a beneficial interest, notified the Company on 24 December 2011 that it purchased 1,472,092 Shares on the London Stock Exchange on 23 December 2011 at 88.53 pence per share, totalling 0.18% of the share capital of the Company.

Prior to this transaction, Double A Limited held 59,051,755 Shares, being 7.36% of the share capital of the Company. The total holding of Double A Limited following the transaction is 60,523,847 shares, being 7.54% of the share capital of the Company.

Alima Trust, a discretionary Trust in which the Bseisu family has a beneficial interest, holds 9,225,157 Shares, being 1.15% of the share capital of the Company

The Company’s issued share capital consists of 802,660,757 Shares with voting rights. Each Share carries the right to vote. The Company does not hold any shares in Treasury.

 
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EnQuest PLC
Paul Waters
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