Form 8.3 - Dragon Oil plc

TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 03/24/15 --

                                                                    FORM 8.3
                            IRISH TAKEOVER PANEL

  DISCLOSURE UNDER RULE 8.3 OF THE IRISH TAKEOVER PANEL ACT, 1997, TAKEOVER
                          RULES, 2007 (AS AMENDED)

DEALINGS BY PERSONS WITH INTERESTS IN RELEVANT SECURITIES REPRESENTING 1% OR
                                    MORE

1. KEY INFORMATION
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Name of person dealing (Note 1)      The Canada Life Assurance Company, The
                                       Great-West Life Assurance Company,
                                       Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance
                                      Company, I.G. Investment Management,
                                           Ltd., Irish Life Investment
                                     Managers Limited, London Life Insurance
                                    Company, PanAgora Asset Management Inc.,
                                    The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC, Putnam
                                         Investments Limited and Putnam
                                       Investment Management, LLC, Setanta
                                     Asset Management Limited, all of which
                                     are investment management subsidiaries
                                         of Power Corporation of Canada
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Company dealt in                                 Dragon Oil plc
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Class of relevant security to which
the dealings being disclosed relate
(Note 2)                              ordinary shares (ISIN: IE0000590798)
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Date of dealing                                   18 March 2015
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2. INTERESTS AND SHORT POSITIONS
(a) Interests and short positions (following dealing) in the class of
relevant security dealt in (Note 3)
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                                    Long                Short
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                                    Number (%)          Number (%)
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(1) Relevant securities             20,461,609 (4.16%)
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(2) Derivatives (other than options)
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(3) Options and agreements to
purchase/sell
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Total                               20,461,609 (4.16%)
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(b) Interests and short positions in relevant securities of the company,
other than the class dealt in (Note 3)
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Class of relevant security:         Long                Short
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                                    Number (%)          Number (%)
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(1) Relevant securities
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(2) Derivatives (other than options)
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(3) Options and agreements to
purchase/sell
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Total
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3. DEALINGS (Note 4)
(a) Purchases and sales
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                                    Number of relevant  Price per unit (Note
Purchase/sale                       securities          5)
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Sell                                1,600               6.030 GBP
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Sell                                50,000              6.0575 GBP
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(b) Derivatives transactions (other than options transactions)
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                               Nature of      Number of
                               transaction    relevant
                               (Note 6)       securities     Price per unit
Product name, e.g. CFD                        (Note 7)       (Note 5)
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(c) Options transactions in respect of existing relevant securities
(i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying
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                          Number of                               Option
                          securities                              money
              Writing,    to which the          Type, e.g.        paid/recei
Product name, selling,    option                American,         ved per
e.g. call     purchasing, relates     Exercise  European  Expiry  unit (Note
option        varying etc.(Note 7)    price     etc.      date    5)
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(ii) Exercising
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Product name, e.g. call   Number of securities     Exercise price per unit
option                                             (Note 5)
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(d) Other dealings (including transactions in respect of new securities)
(Note 4)
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Nature of transaction                              Price per unit
(Note 8)                  Details                  (if applicable)(Note 5)
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4. OTHER INFORMATION
Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or
derivatives
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Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the
person disclosing and any other person relating to the voting rights of any
relevant securities under any option referred to on this form or relating to
the voting rights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant
securities to which any derivative referred to on this form is referenced.
If none, this should be stated.
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Is a Supplemental Form 8 attached?                      No
(Note 9)
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Date of disclosure                                 24 March 2015
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Contact name                                       John Mulligan
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Telephone number                                   204-956-8653
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If a connected EFM, name of
offeree/offeror with which connected
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If a connected EFM, state nature of
connection (Note 10)
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Contacts:
John Mulligan
204-956-8653

Source: Investors Group

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