24 August, 2012 – U.S. Oil & Gas Plc – Total voting Rights

U.S. Oil & Gas Plc.

(“U.S. Oil” or the “Company”)

Total Voting Rights

In accordance with the GXG rules, the Board of U.S. Oil and Gas plc confirms that the Company has 41,682,356, ordinary shares of EURO 0.0001 each in issue, with each ordinary share holding one voting right. The above figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in the Company. The Company’s total issued share capital is EURO 4,423.78. The Company holds 717,612 ordinary shares in its treasury, which represents 1.72% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company.

Correction. On the 15th August 2012 when the company announced its interim results it included a statement that it had raised $1.4m. The figure should have read $1.7 m as per the announcement on 27th July as well as the announcement of the final results.

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THE DIRECTORS OF THE COMPANY ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONTENTS OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT

For further information contact:

U.S. Oil & Gas plc

Brian McDonnell, Chief Executive Officer +353 (0) 872383419
[email protected]

Lionsgate Communications – Financial Public Relations

Jonathan Charles +44 (0)7791892509
[email protected]

Notes to Editors

U.S. Oil & Gas plc is a GXG quoted (Ticker: USOP) oil and gas exploration company with a strategy to identify and acquire oil and gas assets in the early phase of the upstream life-cycle and mature them. The Company’s main asset is in Nye County, Nevada where it holds the entire share capital of US-based company Major Oil International LLC (“Major Oil”). Major Oil has acquired rights to exploration and development acreage in Hot Creek Valley, Nye County, adjacent to the oil and gas rich Railroad Valley area of Nevada, both of which are part of the Sevier Thrust of central Nevada and western Utah, USA.

U.S. Oil has completed extensive surveys of its Hot Creek lease area, generating 18 datasets using the following survey methods: Gravity and Magnetic Resonance, Geochemical, 2-D Seismic, Landsat remote sensing, Geophysical studies, Conodont Alteration Index (CAI), Pyrolysis (TOC), Vitronite Reflectance-Visual Kerogen (TAI), 2-D Passive Seismic (IPDS) and 3-D Passive Seismic.

For further information please refer to our website at: www.usoil.us

U.S. Oil & Gas PLC

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