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Xcite Energy Ltd (TSX VENTURE: XEL) (LSE: XEL) (AIM: XEL)

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TSX-V, LSE-AIM: XEL

21 October 2014

Xcite Energy Limited
("Xcite Energy" or the "Company")

Director Share Purchases

Xcite Energy announces that on 20 October 2014 it was notified of the following purchase of ordinary shares in the Company by a Director.

On 20 October 2014, Chief Financial Officer Andrew J. Fairclough purchased 35,000 ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 43.10 pence per share. Mr. Fairclough now has a shareholding of 88,000 ordinary shares in the Company.

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ENQUIRIES:

Xcite Energy Limited
+44 (0) 1483 549 063
Rupert Cole / Andrew Fairclough

Liberum (Joint Broker and Nominated Adviser)
+44 (0) 203 100 2222
Clayton Bush

Morgan Stanley (Joint Broker)
+44 (0) 207 425 8000
Andrew Foster

Bell Pottinger
+44 (0) 203 772 2500
Henry Lerwill