Allotment of shares in subsequent offering

Reference is made to press release of 18 August 2009.

The Board of Directors of Rocksource has today approved the allotment of shares in the subsequent offering. In total 88 subscribers were allotted 91.951 shares at a subscription price per share of NOK 4.25. The bank accounts of the subscribers will be debited on 27 August 2009. The listing of the allocated shares is expected to take place on or about 1 September 2009.

Following the registration of the allotted shares in the Register for Business Enterprises, the share capital of Rocksource will be 178,163,191 shares, divided into an equal number of shares each with a par value of NOK 1.

The subsequent offering followed a successful private placement of 29,700,000 shares on
9 June 2009, in which Rocksource raised NOK 126 million in gross proceeds. For further information about the concluded private placement see press release of 10 June 2009.

Oslo, 25.8.2009
Rocksource ASA

Tommy Sundt
CFO

+47 90 85 50 00