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RNS Number : 5701J  Block Energy PLC  13 December 2022

13 December 2022

Block Energy plc

("Block" or the "Company")

Issue of Shares to Jindal Petroleum (Georgia) Limited

Block Energy plc, the development and production company focused on Georgia,
announces that it has issued shares to Jindal Petroleum (Georgia) Limited
("Jindal").

A total of 120,000,000 nil-cost options were granted in 2020 to SLB (formerly
Schlumberger) as consideration for the acquisition of Schlumberger Rustaveli
Company Limited ("SRCL"), which held Georgia's most productive licence, XI(B).
As part of the Transaction, SLB assigned a total of 12,000,000 nil-cost
options to Jindal (the licence owner of XI(B) prior to SLB).

As such, the Company has today issued 12,000,000 shares to Jindal and will
hold such shares in certificate form. As previously announced, SLB notified
the Company of its intention not to exercise its right to acquire 108,000,000
shares under the Option Agreement.

Application will be made for the admission to trading on AIM ("Admission") for
the 12,000,000 ordinary shares. The ordinary shares will rank pari passu in
all respects with the existing ordinary shares of the Company. Admission is
expected at 8.00 a.m. on or around 19 December 2022.

Total Voting Rights

Following Admission, the Company's issued share capital will comprise
680,638,392 ordinary shares with one voting right each. As the Company does
not hold any shares in Treasury, the total number of voting rights in the
Company is also 680,638,392 and this figure of ordinary shares 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 share capital of the Company under
the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

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THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION AS STIPULATED UNDER
THE UK VERSION OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION NO 596/2014 WHICH IS PART OF
ENGLISH LAW BY VIRTUE OF THE EUROPEAN (WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018, AS AMENDED.  ON
PUBLICATION OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT VIA A REGULATORY INFORMATION SERVICE, THIS
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For further information please visit http://www.blockenergy.co.uk/
(http://www.blockenergy.co.uk/)  or contact:

 Paul Haywood                Block Energy plc                 Tel: +44 (0)20 3468 9891

 (Chief Executive Officer)
 Neil Baldwin                Spark Advisory Partners Limited  Tel: +44 (0)20 3368 3554

 (Nominated Adviser)
 Peter Krens                 Tennyson Securities              Tel: +44 (0)20 7186 9030

 (Corporate Broker)
 Mark Antelme                Celicourt Communications         Tel: +44 (0)20 8434 2643

 Philip Dennis

 (Financial PR Adviser)

 

Notes to editors

Block Energy plc is an AIM-listed independent oil and gas company focused on
production and development in Georgia, applying innovative technology to
realise the full potential of previously discovered fields.

Block has a 100% working interest in Georgian onshore licence blocks IX and
XI(B). Licence block XI(B) is Georgia's most productive block. During the
mid-1980s, production peaked at 67,000 bopd and cumulative production reached
100 MMbbls and 80 MMbbls of oil from the Patardzeuli and Samgori fields,
respectively. The remaining 2P reserves across block XI(B) are 64 MMboe,
comprising 2P oil reserves of 36 MMbbls and 2P gas reserves of 28 MMboe.
(Source: CPR Bayphase Limited: 1 July 2015). Additionally, following an
internal technical study designed to evaluate and quantify the undrained oil
potential of the Middle Eocene within the Patardzeuli field, the Company has
estimated gross unrisked 2C contingent resources of 200 MMbbls of oil.

The Company has a 100% working interest in licence block XI(F) containing the
West Rustavi onshore oil and gas field. Multiple wells have tested oil and gas
from a range of geological horizons. The field has so far produced over
75 Mbbls of light sweet crude and has 1.07 MMbbls of gross 2P oil reserves in
the Middle Eocene. It also has 38 MMbbls of gross unrisked 2C contingent
resources of oil and 608 Bcf of gross unrisked 2C contingent resources of gas
in the Middle, Upper and Lower Eocene formations (Source: CPR Gustavson
Associates: 1 January 2018, ERCE 2022).

In 2022, a Competent Person's Report provided by ERCE, ascribed 3P reserves of
3.01 million barrels, with an NPV project value of USD 57 million, to just a
portion of the West Rustavi/Krtsanisi Middle Eocene reservoir.

Block also holds 100% and 90% working interests respectively in the onshore
oil producing Norio and Satskhenisi fields.

The Company offers a clear entry point for investors to gain exposure
to Georgia's growing economy and the strong regional demand for oil and gas.

Glossary

·bbls: barrels. A barrel is 35 imperial gallons.

·Bcf: billion cubic feet.

·boe: barrels of oil equivalent.

·bopd: barrels of oil per day.

·Mbbls: thousand barrels.

·MMbbls: million barrels.

·MMboe: million barrels of oil equivalent.

 

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