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Registration of equity issue

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Reference is made to the stock exchange notification issued by Interoil Exploration and Production ASA (the "Company", ticker "IOX") on 14 March 2013 regarding completion of the private placement.

The 200,000,000 new ordinary shares issued in the private placement resolved by the extraordinary general meeting as well as the authorization from the ordinary general meeting have been registered in the Register of Business Enterprises in Brønnøysund 20 March 2013. The new share capital of Interoil is NOK 12,388,250 divided into 247,765,000 shares each with a par value of NOK 0.05.

The new shares are registered in VPS, but will not be tradable before the corresponding prospectus has been approved by the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norwegian ("Norwegian FSA"). Interoil anticipates that the Norwegian FSA will approve the prospectus on or about 21 March 2013.

New certification of registration and articles of association are attached.

For more information please contact:

Thomas J. Fjell

CEO

Mob: +47 958 15 300

E-mail: tfjell@interoil.no

Erik Sandøy

CFO

Mob: +47 488 94 426

E-mail: esandoy@interoil.no

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This information is subject of the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.

Files

Certificate of registration
Articles of association