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Presentation to ASX Spotlight Hong Kong & Singapore David Maxwell Managing Director, Cooper Energy 27 & 29 May 2014

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Page 1: Presentation to ASX Spotlight Hong Kong & Singapore David Maxwell Managing Director, Cooper Energy 27 & 29 May 2014

Presentation to ASX SpotlightHong Kong & Singapore

David MaxwellManaging Director,Cooper Energy

27 & 29 May 2014

Page 2: Presentation to ASX Spotlight Hong Kong & Singapore David Maxwell Managing Director, Cooper Energy 27 & 29 May 2014

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Important Notice – Disclaimer

The information in this presentation:• Is not an offer or recommendation to purchase or subscribe for shares in Cooper Energy Limited or to retain or sell any shares that are

currently held.• Does not take into account the individual investment objectives or the financial situation of investors.• Was prepared with due care and attention and is current at the date of the presentation.Actual results may materially vary from any forecasts (where applicable) in this presentation.

Before making or varying any investment in shares of Cooper Energy Limited, all investors should consider the appropriateness of that investment in light of their individual investment objectives and financial situation and should seek their own independent professional advice.

Qualified petroleum reserves and resources evaluatorThis report contains information on petroleum resources which is based on and fairly represents information and supporting documentation reviewed by Mr Andrew Thomas who is a full time employee of Cooper Energy Limited holding the position of Exploration Manager, holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons), is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Petroleum Engineers and is qualified in accordance with ASX listing rule 5.41 and has consented to the inclusion of this information in the form and context in which it appears.

RoundingAll numbers in this presentation have been rounded. As a result, some total figures may differ insignificantly from totals obtained from arithmetic addition of the rounded numbers presented.

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Company snapshot

Key figures

Share pricerange, 12 months $0.35 - $0.585

Shares on issue 329.2 mill

Market capitalisation1 $172.8 mill

Cash & investments2 $79.7 mill

Debt Nil

Production MMbbl /year 0.57 – 0.60

Share register Top 20 holders~66%Funds/Corp ~67%

Well resourced with strong balance sheet

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COE share price$

(1) As at 23 May 2014(2) As 31 March 2014

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Key features

Management team experienced in Australia and Indonesia Proven capabilities in developing and commercialising gas Record of success in large and small Australian and international companies

Clear strategy addresses opportunities in Australian energy market Selective approach based on commercial and technical fundamentals

Cash and financial assets of $79.7 million2

Supported by financial facilities of $40 million

500,000+ barrels pa oil with netback of A$97/bbl1 after costs from Cooper Basin 5th largest onshore oil producer in Australia Growing Indonesian oil production

Australia: high margin/ high success oil exploration, conventional & unconventional gas exploration Gippsland: gas/liquids development project Indonesia: material upside at low cost

1 COE Cooper Basin 2014 first half netback after costs2 As at 31 March 2014 Production, cash, earnings, & management

High margin, strong cash- generating oil production

Strong balance sheet and financial resources

Prospective acreage and development opportunities

Experienced and proven management and board

Disciplined strategy focused on TSR

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Business model and focus

Oil & GasAustralia and Indonesia

Total Shareholder Return and

Health Safety Environment Community

People• Extensive knowledge• Delivery record• Remuneration & results linked

Funding• Strong balance sheet• Robust cash flow• Finance facilities

Assets• Cooper Basin• Otway Basin• Gippsland Basin • South Sumatra, Indonesia

Strategy• Fundamentals focus: market, technical, cost & commercial• Leverage and grow strengths

• High margin oil• Gas portfolio

Leveraging strengths for TSR

Focus on returns & care through disciplined application of resources and core skills

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FY14 First half results

$ million unless otherwise indicated H1 14 H1 13

Production MMbbl 0.30 0.21 ▲ + 41%

Sales volume MMbbl 0.29 0.21 ▲ + 37%

Sales revenue 37.0 23.4 ▲ + 58%

Net profit after tax 13.6 4.6 ▲ + 198 %

Cash flow from operations 24.2 2.1 ▲ +1,034%

• Record half-year profit driven by increased production, prices and reduced costs

• New resources upside identified and acquired:

− Cooper Basin (Worrior oil field Patchawarra Formation)

− Gippsland Basin (Basker Manta Gummy [BMG] gas and liquids)

− Tunisia (Hammamet West oil field)

On track for record earnings

Results to date are Cooper Energy’s best yet

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Oil production and reserves history and outlook

• Record of increasing reserves and production

• Expect trend to continue in FY14

FY13 FY14

324

415

14

41

IndonesiaCooper Basin

Year to date productionkbbl nine months to March

• Production growth from both Cooper Basin and Indonesia

• Cooper Basin: new wells connected and drilling

• Indonesia: well workover program and drilling

Upgraded production guidance: growth of 18% - 22% in FY14

Sustained and ongoing growth

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 est

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2P Reserves

Production

2P Reserves (MMbbl)

ProductionMMbbl

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* 2014 Reserves to be calculated as at 30 June 2014

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Portfolio

Cooper Basin Oil

• Oil production

• Development & appraisal

• Exploration

Otway Gas

• Exploration

Gippsland Gas & Oil

• Development

• Appraisal & exploration

Indonesia (onshore Sumatra)

• Oil production, development and appraisal

• Oil & gas exploration

Tunisia (being divested)

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Value building

Strong oil business

Developing gas business

Indonesia growth

Leveraging financial and

technical strength

Production: ~0.6 MMbbl pa

High margin & cash generation

Cooper Basin, Western Flank

Indonesia, South Sumatra

Sustained exploration success

Market, cost & value focused

BMG Project, Gippsland

Otway Basin

Cooper BasinProven capability in gas commercialisation

Basin focussed strategy

Production growth

Low risk value-add

Material exploration upside

CBM and shale potential

Introduce partners

Cash & financial assets $80 mill

Finance facilities $40 mill

Strategy driven acquisitions

Technical capability and experience

Tunisia monetisation

Strategy for growth involves 3 elements, underpinned by financial and technical resources

Priority on technical, commercial and operational fundamentals in all ventures

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Oil business: Cooper Basin

• Oil production and exploration

- current approximately 1,500 bopd (net)

• Exploration and development continues to add reserves

- Cooper Energy Cooper Basin cumulative exploration success rate of 33% from FY03 – FY13

- new opportunities such as Patchawarra oil in PEL 93

• Extensive seismic acquisition completed for drilling in 2014-15

• 3 exploration wells planned for June quarter 2014

Valuable production + high success rates

Prime acreage on prolific western flank

7159

97NetbackRoyaltiesTransportationProduction

COE Cooper Basin costs and netback per barrel FY14 First half from average A$128/bbl

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East Coast domestic gas outlook

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 20300

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Surat-Bowen

Bass

Otway

Gipps-land

Cooper

New supply contract opportunity

Forecast east cost domestic demand Contracted supply from:

Source: EnergyQuest

Growing gap between contracted supply and anticipated demand

• Supply opportunity incorporated into COE strategy from 2012

• Built market understanding; buyer relationships; cost curve positions; and development timelines

• Rising gas prices

• Application of COE gas commercialisation expertise

Market opportunities

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Developing gas business

Gippsland Basin: Eastern Australia’s largest gas source:

• BMG Project: 65% interest & Operator

• Hold 22.9% interest in Bass Strait Oil Company (BAS)

Otway Basin: ideally located

• Built acreage position through acquisition and trades

• Position covers most of Casterton Formation play

Cooper Basin: existing infrastructure

• Evaluating opportunities

Energy market driven

Portfolio approach built around the fundamentals of cost and market

Building a competitive supply portfolio

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Developing gas business: BMG and Gippsland Basin

65% interest holder and Operator of BMG gas and liquids project

•Existing wells and gas-gathering infrastructure

•Economic enhancement options through adjacent fields & infrastructure

•To be included in year-end review of resources and reserves

Developing Business Case for optimum development

•Available by mid - 2015

•Equity levels to be leveraged for capital efficiency

•Gas buyers have registered interest

•Target: gas supply to Eastern Australia by 2018

22.9% interest holder in Bass Strait Oil Company

•Acreage adjacent to BMG

Conventional gas close to market

Conventional gas supply, with access to market and exploration upside

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Developing gas business: Otway Basin

• Strong position across Penola Trough

• Proven basin for conventional plays

• Close to markets and infrastructure

• Jurassic source rocks are gas prone with liquids potential

• 2 deep (approx 4,000m) wells from January 2014

• Jolly-1: reinforced Casterton Formation potential and identified potential for deep stratigraphic trapping– gas shows over 340m sandstone interval in Lower

Sawpit

– cores collected being analysed

• Bungaloo-1 currently drilling – primary objective to gather further information on

Casterton Formation– will also assess sands in Lower Sawpit

Proven gas province, close to market

Exploration in well-located, gas producing basin

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Indonesia: South Sumatra

• Prolific hydrocarbon region

• 285 discoveries

- 3 billion bbl oil & 25 TCF gas

• Not rigorously explored with 3D

• Emerging Coal Bed Methane (CBM) & shale plays

• US$8 - 10/GJ gas prices & market access

• Existing infrastructure

• Fit with COE skill set

Proven oil and gas province with high value-low risk opportunities

High potential, proven prospectivity

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Indonesia: South Sumatra Basin

Sukananti KSO (COE 55%)• Currently ~300 bopd (100% basis)• Multiple low risk development opportunities• 2 workovers plus development drilling planned from mid-2014• Targeting production growth• Contractor share: oil 15%: gas 20%1

Sumbagsel PSC (COE 100%)• Shallow oil targets• Identifying best targets from 2013/14 seismic for 2015 drilling • Farm out from 100% for capital efficient drilling • Contractor share: oil 25%: gas 40%1

Merangin III PSC (COE 100%)• Highly prospective & large prospects • Reprocessing seismic to inform 2015 seismic program• Farm out from 100% for capital efficient drilling • Contractor share: oil 30%: gas 35%1

Production and high value exploration

Acreage offers low risk value-add opportunities and company-maker targets

1. After tax

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Tunisia

• 3 permits covering 12,600 km2

• Hammamet West oil discovery

- gross contingent resource estimated to be 12.6 MMboe (1C) to 110.4 MMboe (3C)1

- oil development opportunity

- to be tested further by Hammamet West-3 ST-2 in 2015

• Multiple prospects

Divestment plan

• Data room opened March 2014

• Aiming for completion during 2014

Shareholder value driven monetisation of extensive portfolio

Realise value from sale to natural owner

1. 100% Joint Venture resource as announced to ASX 28 April 2014 (the Announcement). Cooper Energy confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the Announcement and that all the material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in the Announcement continue to apply and have not materially changed.

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FY 14 FY 15 FY 16 FY 17 FY 18 FY 19 FY 20 FY 21 FY 22 FY 230

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Net Productionmmboe

Indicative Growth Outlook

• Sustain and grow existing production and cashflow

• Transformational impact from gas strategy

– especially BMG development

• Exploration in Cooper Basin, Otway Basin and Indonesia offer further upside

• Application of cash flow for acquisitive growth that aligns with strategy

Current acreage programs and opportunities offer substantial growth

Exploration:- Indonesia, Otway, Cooper Basin

Acquisitions

Existing Production: Cooper Basin, Indonesia

Gippsland: - BMG Commercialisation - Exploration

Step changes in production anticipated

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Outlook and value catalysts

• FY14 Production guidance upgraded to 575,000 – 600,000 barrels of oil, up 18% - 22% on FY13 • Record financial results forecast• FY14 Reserves and Resources to include significant additions for Gippsland and Hammamet West

Plus numerous value-adding catalysts in the near term

• Announcement of FY14 financial results: 18 August 2014

• Exploration drilling in Cooper Basin: ongoing

• Tunisia: divestment or successful test at Hammamet West ST-2 (H1 15)

• BMG business case (mid - 2015)

• Otway Basin results, analysis and further activity (FY15)

• Drilling in Indonesia: activity 2014 onwards

• Value-focussed acquisitions

Performing strongly

On track for record production and financial results

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Appendices

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Reserves and Contingent Resources

• Reserves and resources updated annually as at 30 June 2014

• Resources as at 2014 to include additions for:

– Tunisia: 11 MMboe 2C resource announced April 20144

– BMG: resources attributable to field to be assessed and incorporated

Reserves1

MMbbl as at 30 June 2013 1P 2P 3P

Cooper Basin 0.95 1.80 2.89

Indonesia 0.06 0.35 0.64

Total 1.02 2.16 3.53

Contingent Resources1

MMboe as at 30 June 2013 1C 2C 3C

Cooper Basin 0.00 0.00 0.03

Tunisia 2 5.15 5.74 6.41

Total3 5.15 5.74 6.44

1 As per Cooper Energy 2013 Annual Report 2 Does not include Hammamet West3 Does not include Gippsland Basin4 Contingent Resource as announced to ASX 28 April 2014 (the Announcement). Cooper Energy confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the Announcement and that all the material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in the Announcement continue to apply and have not materially changed

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Forecast Eastern Australia gas prices

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 20330

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Adelaide

Melbourne

Gladstone

Brisbane

Source: EnergyQuest

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Indicative gas supply cost curve

Conventional

CSG

Tight conventional

Shale

Economic ex-field gas price$/GJ

Volume of gas

Indicative illustration of various reservoir types in Eastern Australia

Other key variables

• Liquids content

• Inerts content e.g. CO2, N2

• Size/economy of scale

• Community & approvals

• Access to infrastructure

• Distance/cost to market

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PEL 92 – Look forward

• 3 wells planned before end of FY14

• Seismic interpretation of the Irus and Caseolus 3D ongoing to add to drilling portfolio

• Seismic reprocessing and inversion underway to address existing Namur play and emerging Birkhead Channel play

• Drilling activity levels in FY15 similar to FY14 levels

Morgan-1

Fishery-1

Shelley-1

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PEL- 93 Worrior field Patchawarra potential (COE 30%)• Worrior-8 flowed 670 barrels of oil per day with 0.7 million standard cubic feet of gas in 2013

• Worrior-10 intersected 4.5m net oil pay

• Reserve potential under evaluation

• Plan to drill further appraisal wells in FY15

Patchawarra Depth Map (5m)

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Penola Trough subsurface schematic

Eumeralla Formation

Basement

Casterton Shale

Jolly-1Bungaloo-1

Sawpit-1Sawpit-2

Salamander-1

Aquifer

South North

Pretty Hill Formation

Upper Sawpit Shale

Sawpit Sandstone

Lower Sawpit Shale

Casterton Shale

Laira Formation

Dilwyn Formation

Subsurface fault

4000 metres

2000 metres

500 metres

Not to Scale

Casterton Formation gas maturity window Casterton gas maturity window

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Indonesia: Sukananti KSO

• First half production up from 54 bopd to 158 bopd (COE share) due to successful workover initiative

• 2 workovers planned for second half FY14

• Development/appraisal drilling planned from mid 2014

• Targeting further production growth

Production, exploration and development

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Indonesia: Sumbagsel PSC

• COE awarded permit April 2011 for a 6 year initial exploration term

• Acquired 257 km of 2D seismic

• Key play types are structural and carbonate reefs

• Typical prospect sizes 5-10 MMbbl oil

• CBM potential

• Forward plan

‒complete new seismic interpretation

‒update prospect portfolio

‒ farm-out equity to reduce capital risk

‒drill prospect FY15

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Indonesia: Merangin III PSC

• COE awarded permit May 2013 for a 6 year exploration initial term

• Key play types are structural and carbonate reefs

• Shallow oil prospect potential 5-10MMbbl

• Deep gas prospect potential 100 to > 500Bcf

• CBM potential

• Forward plan

‒complete new seismic interpretation and prospect portfolio update

‒ farm-out equity to reduce capital risk

‒acquire new seismic in FY15

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Hammamet West Field Contingent Resources*Contingent Resource probabilistic estimates for the Abiod Fm

Gross Contingent Resource Estimates1C

(P90)

2C

(P50)

3C

(P10)

Oil MMbbl 11.6 34.5 99.8

Gas2 Bcf 5.3 17.9 59.7

Total Mmboe3 12.6 37.7 110.4

Net 4 Contingent Resource Estimates for Cooper Energy

Oil MMbbl 3.5 10.4 29.9

Gas2 Bcf 1.6 5.4 17.9

Total MMboe 3.8 11.3 33.1

1Gross: Contingent Resources attributable to 100% joint venture interest in Bargou Permit, Tunisia2 Gas: Associated gas dissolved in oil at reservoir conditions3 MMboe: Million barrels of oil equivalent. Conversion factor of 1 boe = 5,620 scf (1 Bcf = 0.178 MMboe)4 Net: Contingent Resources attributable to Cooper Energy’s 30% interest in Bargou Permit, Tunisia

*. Contingent Resource as announced to ASX 28 April 2014 (the Announcement). Cooper Energy confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the Announcement and that all the material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in the Announcement continue to apply and have not materially changed.

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Notes

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