Oryx Petroleum Announces Election of Directors

CALGARY, June 28, 2018 /CNW/ - Oryx Petroleum Corporation Limited ("Oryx Petroleum" or the "Corporation") today announces that the nominees listed in its Management Proxy Circular dated May 8, 2018 were elected as directors of Oryx Petroleum. Detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held on June 27, 2018 at Oryx Petroleum's Annual Meeting of Shareholders are set out below.

Each of the following four nominees proposed by management was elected as a director on a vote by show of hands. All nominees were elected by a majority of the shareholders present in person or represented by proxy. The proxies received by management with respect to the election of directors were as follows:

    Nominee                  Votes For           Votes Withheld
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    Bradford Camp      417,406,256     100.00%      2,000      0.00%
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    Jean Claude Gandur 405,472,346      97.14% 11,935,910      2.86%
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    Peter Janele       417,406,256     100.00%      2,000      0.00%
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    Peter Newman       417,406,256     100.00%      2,000      0.00%
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Percentages in the table above represent the votes for or withheld, as applicable, cast by proxy, as a percentage of all votes cast at the meeting for the election of directors by shareholders present in person or represented by proxy.

Richard Alexander, Gerald Macey and Nevin Karim did not stand for re-election. The Corporation thanks each of them for their service and their respective contributions to the development of the Corporation's business.

Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders have been filed under the Corporation's profile at www.sedar.com.

ABOUT ORYX PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED

Oryx Petroleum is an international oil exploration, development and production company focused in Africa and the Middle East. The Corporation's shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "OXC". The Oryx Petroleum group of companies was founded in 2010 by The Addax and Oryx Group P.L.C. Oryx Petroleum has interests in three license areas, one of which has yielded an oil discovery. The Corporation is the operator in two of the three license areas. One license area is located in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and two license areas are located in West Africa in the AGC administrative area offshore Senegal and Guinea Bissau, and Congo (Brazzaville). Further information about Oryx Petroleum is available at www.oryxpetroleum.com or under Oryx Petroleum's profile at www.sedar.com.

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