Atlantic Petroleum P/F - Fyrirtækjafréttir

Operations update July 2012

Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, 2012-08-02 08:59 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- P/F Atlantic
Petroleum (OMX: FO-ATLA) today announces that during the month of July,
Atlantic Petroleum produced a net total of 84,000 barrels of oil equivalents
(boe) from the Chestnut, Ettrick and Blackbird fields. The average daily
production was 2,710 boe per day net to the Company. 





Further Details:

Further details can be obtained from Ben Arabo, CEO, tel +298 350100
(ben.arabo@petroleum.fo). This announcement will be available, together with
other information about Atlantic Petroleum, on the Company's website:
www.petroleum.fo. 

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newsletter. 



Announcement no. 21/2012

Issued 02-08-2012


         P/F Atlantic Petroleum
         Yviri við Strond 4
         P.O. Box 1228
         FO-110 Tórshavn
         Faroe Islands
         Telephone +298 350 100
         Fax +298 350 101
         Website: www.petroleum.fo
         E-mail: petroleum@petroleum.fo