AWDR - Primary Insider Disclosure

Awilco Drilling PLC (AWDR) announces that on 29th November, 2015, the following
synthetic share transactions occurred:

Ian Wilson, Chief Financial Officer, has had 18,770 synthetic share options with
a strike price of NOK 29 and 17,991 synthetic shares in AWDR automatically
exercised under the Synthetic Share Plan at a price of NOK 35.06. After this
transaction and as of today, Ian Wilson holds 78,226 synthetic shares. The
numbers of auto-exercised synthetic shares, as well as the remaining number of
synthetic shares, will be adjusted to reflect the Q3 2015 dividend payment once
the USD/NOK exchange rate of the dividend payment planned for 18th December
2015 is known.

Aberdeen, 3 December, 2015


For more information please contact:
Jon Oliver Bryce, CEO
Phone +44 1224 737900

Cathrine Haavind, IR Manager
Phone: +47 93 42 84 64


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



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