Notification of Major Interest in Shares

For filings with the FSA include the annex

For filings with issuer exclude the annex

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached: ii	Gulfsands Petroleum Plc
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to qualifying financial instruments
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation: iii	Richard Griffiths and controlled undertakings
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):iv	Richard Griffiths
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached: v	23 April 2014
6. Date on which issuer notified:	23 April 2014
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: vi, vii	9%

8. Notified details:
A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix
Class/type of sharesif possible using the ISIN CODE	Situation previous to the triggering transaction		Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
	Number of Shares	Number of Voting Rights	Number of shares	Number of voting rights		% of voting rights x
			Direct	Direct xi	Indirect xii	Direct	Indirect
Ordinary GB00B06VGC01	9,450,000	9,450,000	10,690,512	10,690,512		9.07%

B: Qualifying Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Expiration datexiii	Exercise/ Conversion Period xiv	Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.	% of voting rights

C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument	Exercise price	Expiration date xvii	Exercise/ Conversion period xviii	Number of voting rights instrument refers to	% of voting rights xix, xx
					Nominal	Delta

Total (A+B+C)
Number of voting rights	Percentage of voting rights
10,690,512	9.07%

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi

Seren Capital Management Limited 8,690,512 Cream Capital Limited 2,000,000 Total 10,690,512 The above undertakings are all controlled by Richard Griffiths

Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:

13. Additional information:
14. Contact name:	Mike Bretherton
15. Contact telephone number:	01481 738724

Note: Annex should only be submitted to the FSA not the issuer

Annex: Notification of major interests in sharesxxii

A: Identity of the persons or legal entity subject to the notification obligation
Full name  (including legal form of legal entities)
Contact address  (registered office for legal entities)
Phone number & email
Other useful information  (at least legal representative for legal persons)

B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable
Full name
Contact address
Phone number & email
Other useful information (e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation)

C: Additional information

For notes on how to complete form TR-1 please see the FSA website.