"For publication - This letter and accompanying annex is to be published in full with your report and on your website", 4 June 2014

We write with regard to a report that you have indicated you are planning to release.

At the outset, you should be aware that we are committed to maintaining the highest working standards and take your enquiry extremely seriously. With this in mind, we are disappointed that you refused our request for further particulars of the matters raised and details of the evidence that you have indicated you have. Plainly, this makes it extremely, and unnecessarily, difficult for Soco International plc (the "Company"/"Soco", to properly investigate these matters.We would therefore again request that you provide us with this information. Should you proceed to publish a report without providing us with anything more than the limited information we have received to date, we trust that at the very least you will consider this letter and include this contribution in full in any report that you decide to publish. A number of false and inaccurate allegations have been levelled against the Company in recent years, particularly in the last month, as a result of inaccurate, false, distorted and/or exaggerated accounts of our activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (the "DRC")...The seismic survey represents the Company's final operational activity onsite Block V under its current work programme. No drilling has been planned or is warranted at this stage...We reiterate that we take allegations of this nature extremely seriously. We are committed to operating in an ethical and transparent manner...The company operates on a strict Code of Business Conduct and Ethics...We condemn the use of violence and intimidation and are committed to ensuring that all of our activities in the DRC...are conducted in accordance with the strict ethical policies...we are committed to the protection of human rights and endeavour to encourage the same in all our activities...