REG - Europa Oil & Gas - Assumption of Operatorship of PEDL343 (Cloughton)

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings)Announcement

28/07/2023 07:00

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RNS Number : 4788H  Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) PLC  28 July 2023

 

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc / Index: AIM / Epic: EOG / Sector: Oil
& Gas

 

28 July 2023

 

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc

("Europa" or the "Company")

 

Assumption of Operatorship of PEDL343 (Cloughton)

 

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the AIM traded UK and Ireland focused oil
and gas exploration, development, and production company, is pleased to
announce that it has assumed operatorship of licence PEDL343, which holds the
Cloughton gas discovery.

 

Operatorship of the licence was transferred from Egdon Resources U.K. Limited
("Egdon") to Europa and approved by the North Sea Transition Authority, the
industry regulator, with effect from 27 July 2023. The partners in PEDL343 are
Europa (40 per cent), Egdon (40 per cent) and Petrichor (20 per cent).

 

The Cloughton field was discovered in 1986 and encountered gas throughout the
Carboniferous section. The well tested at rates of up to 40,000 scf/day on
natural flow, however with the right completion and production optimisation
techniques, the Company believes that a well could flow at 6 mmscf/day. The
gas is good quality sweet gas with >98% methane and ethane.

 

The discovery well encountered 60 metres of Carboniferous net sandstone
reservoir with high gas saturations. Given the large areal closure and net
sand present within the well there is a large volume of gas in place that has
already been discovered. Cloughton is therefore a gas appraisal opportunity
with the critical challenge being to obtain commercial flowrates from future
production testing operations. A location for an appraisal well pad has been
identified and following successful testing operations, the field would be
monetised by connecting to the nearby gas grid. Such developments remain
subject to securing necessary permits and approvals.

 

Will Holland, Chief Executive Officer of Europa, said:

 

"We are very pleased to be assuming the operatorship of what we believe to be
a material licence and plan to progress the asset to appraisal drilling
operations as quickly as possible. This initially involves engaging with the
various stakeholders to secure the necessary permits and approvals.

 

The Europa technical team is now working through the subsurface data to
calculate a range of probabilistic recoverable gas volumes and will produce a
conceptual development plan for the field, which we believe will demonstrate
the material potential value of the licence. There is undoubtedly a
significant volume of gas within the structure, which could be brought online
relatively quickly and would displace imported gas volumes. Domestically
produced gas generates employment, local and national tax revenues and has a
lower carbon footprint than imported gas. As such development of Cloughton is
fully aligned with the UK Governments British Energy Security Strategy and Net
Zero 2050 goals.

 

I look forward to updating shareholders of our progress as we work through the
asset data, refine our estimates for the gas volumes and establish a
conceptual development plan."

 

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For further information, please visit www.europaoil.com
(http://www.europaoil.com/)  or contact:

 William Holland                                   Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc                            mail@europaoil.com
 James Dance / James Spinney                       Strand Hanson Limited - Nominated & Financial Adviser      +44 (0) 20 7409 3494
 Peter Krens                                       Tennyson Securities                                        +44 (0) 20 7186 9033
 Patrick d'Ancona / Finlay Thomson / Kendall Hill  Vigo Consulting                                            + 44 (0) 20 7390 0230

 

Notes to Editors

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc has a diversified portfolio of multi-stage
hydrocarbon assets which includes production, development and exploration
interests, in countries that are politically stable, have transparent
licensing processes, and offer attractive terms. Average production for the
6-month period ending 31 January 2023 was 268 bopd. In April 2022, Europa
farmed into P.2358, Block 13/23c ("Serenity") in the Outer Moray Firth area of
the North Sea. The licence contains the 2019 Serenity oil discovery, in which
Europa has a 25% interest. The Company holds one exploration licence offshore
Ireland, which has two principal prospects, the largest of which has the
potential to host gross mean un-risked prospective resources of 1.5 trillion
cubic feet ("tcf") gas. Inishkea is a near field gas prospect in the Slyne
Basin which the Company classifies as lower risk due to its close proximity to
the producing Corrib gas field and associated gas processing infrastructure.

 

Glossary

scf/day                 standard cubic feet per day

mmscf/day         million standard cubic feet per day

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