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Stavanger, 26 May 2015

Reference is made to the stock exchange notice published on 12 May 2015 regarding the cash tender offer (the 'Offer') made by EPSI AS (the 'Offeror'), a company managed by HitecVision, to acquire all issued and outstanding shares (the 'Shares') in Rocksource ASA (the 'Company'), with acceptance period from 12 May 2015 to and including 26 May 2015 at 16:30 CET.

On 22 May 2015, the Offeror received acceptances under the Offer for 1,604,992 Shares, corresponding to 1.01 per cent of the share capital and voting rights in the Company. Following this, the Offeror has received acceptances for a total of 7,582,553 Shares and voting rights in the Company. Together with the 134,995,703 Shares already owned by the Offeror, the Offeror now owns and holds rights to a total of 142,578,256 Shares, representing approximately 90.03 per cent of the issued share capital and voting rights in the Company.

The percentage has been calculated based on 158,371,500 issued Shares and voting rights in the Company.

Further details on the Offer, including how the Offer may be accepted, are set out in the offer document which has been sent to all shareholders of the Company as of 12 May 2015.

The Offeror is represented on the Board of Directors of the Company. The Offeror does not own any other rights to acquire shares in the Company.

Arctic Securities AS is engaged as financial advisor and Advokatfirmaet BA-HR is acting as legal advisor to the Offeror in connection with the Offer.

This information is subject to the disclosure requirements of sections 4-2 and 4-3 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.

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