Sinopec International Takes up Additional Addax Petroleum Corporation Shares

28/08/2009 07:33

PR Newswire

CALGARY, Canada, August 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation

("Sinopec International") is pleased to announce that additional common

shares of Addax Petroleum Corporation ("Addax Petroleum") have been tendered

to the offer (the "Offer") dated July 9, 2009, as extended, made by Mirror

Lake Oil and Gas Company Limited ("Mirror Lake"), an indirect wholly-owned

subsidiary of Sinopec International. Mirror Lake has taken up all such

additional Addax Petroleum common shares as of the expiry of the Offer on

August 27, 2009 and has now taken up an aggregate of 162,947,508 Addax

Petroleum common shares, representing approximately 98.22% of the Addax

Petroleum common shares on a diluted basis.

Reader Advisory

This announcement is for informational purposes only and does not

constitute or form part of any offer or invitation to purchase, acquire,

subscribe for, sell, dispose of or issue, or any solicitation of an offer to

sell, dispose, issue purchase, acquire or subscribe for any security.

For further information: please contact any of the following: Sinopec

International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation: Mr. Handong

Rui, Email: hdrui@sipc.cn

For further information: please contact any of the following: Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation: Mr. Handong Rui, Email: hdrui@sipc.cn






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