Exploration Director Leaves Rockhopper

Rockhopper Exploration plc, the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, announces that Dave Bodecott, Exploration Director, is retiring from the Board of Directors and will be leaving the Company on 31 January 2013.

Pierre Jungels, Chairman of Rockhopper, commented:

“Dave has made a huge contribution as a member of the management team since the Company’s inception, firstly as a consultant and, since January 2007, as a highly valued Board director. We would like to extend our thanks to him for his hard work culminating in the discovery of Sea Lion and the successful exploration and appraisal programme which followed that. All of us at Rockhopper wish him well for the future.”

The subsurface work on the Company’s existing acreage and in relation to new ventures will be managed by Fiona MacAulay, Rockhopper’s G&G Manager (Geology and Geophysics).

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Press Release, January 23, 2013