Seventy Seven Energy Inc. Announces Receipt of Notice from NYSE Regarding Non-Compliance with Continued Listing Standard

Seventy Seven Energy Inc. (NYSE: SSE) announced today that it has received notice from the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) of non-compliance with the NYSE continued listing standard that requires the average closing price of the Company’s common stock to be not less than $1.00 per share over a period of 30 consecutive trading days.

The Company has notified the NYSE of its intent to cure the deficiency and return to compliance with the NYSE’s continued listing requirements. The Company can regain compliance if, during the six-month period following receipt of the NYSE notice, the Company’s common stock has a closing share price and a 30-trading-day average closing share price on the NYSE of at least $1.00 on the last trading day of any calendar month or on the last day of the cure period.

Subject to the Company’s compliance with other continued listing requirements, the Company’s common stock will continue to be traded on the NYSE during the cure period.

The NYSE notification does not affect the Company’s business operations or its U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reporting requirements and does not cause an event of default under any of the Company’s debt agreements.

About Seventy Seven Energy Inc.

Headquartered in Oklahoma City, SSE provides a wide range of wellsite services and equipment to U.S. land-based exploration and production customers. SSE’s services include drilling, hydraulic fracturing and oilfield rentals and its operations are geographically diversified across many of the most active oil and natural gas plays in the onshore U.S., including the Anadarko and Permian basins and the Eagle Ford, Haynesville, Marcellus, Niobrara and Utica shales. For additional information about SSE, please visit our website at www.77nrg.com, where we routinely post announcements, updates, events, investor information and presentations and recent news releases.

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