REG-Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) Plc: 12 month extension to FEL 2/13, Offshore Ireland

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings)Announcement

12/08/2019 07:05

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

12 August 2019

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc (‘Europa’ or ‘the Company’)

12 month extension to FEL 2/13, Offshore Ireland

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the UK and Ireland focused oil and gas
exploration, development and production company, is pleased to announce that
the Irish Government has approved the Company’s application for a 12 month
extension to the First Phase of Frontier Exploration Licence 2/13 (‘FEL
2/13’ or ‘the Licence’) to 4 July 2020. Europa has a 100% interest in
FEL 2/13 which is located on the west flank of the South Porcupine basin and
includes the Kiely prospects and the Doyle Cretaceous channel complex.  The
280 million barrel Kiely East prospect is the top ranked prospect on the
Licence.

The next steps for the Licence include integration of recently purchased CREAN
3D seismic data with particular focus on mapping the extension of Kiely East
into open acreage to the south of the Licence. A site survey application for a
drilling location on Kiely East is in process.  FEL 2/13 is one of six
offshore Ireland licences held by Europa which potentially hold gross mean
un-risked prospective resources of 6.4 billion barrels oil equivalent and 1.5
tcf gas.

Europa's CEO, Hugh Mackay, said: “Today’s extension enables us to press on
with preparations to drill an exploration well to test the 280 million barrel
Kiely East prospect on FEL 2/13.   Kiely East is just one of a number of
priority targets we have identified across our portfolio of six offshore
Ireland licences which, subject to securing farm-out partners and relevant
regulatory permissions, we are looking to drill at the earliest opportunity. 
With this in mind, we are focused on proving up the company-making resources
we have identified across multiple play types and basins on our offshore
Ireland licences. I look forward to providing further updates on our progress,
not just at FEL 2/13, but across our multistage portfolio of licences in
Ireland and onshore UK.”

Further Information

FEL 2/13 is located on the west flank of the South Porcupine basin in water
depths ranging from 800-1,200m.  Hydrocarbon plays include the Pre-rift and
Cretaceous channels. Nine prospects and leads have been identified on
proprietary PSDM 3D seismic data. The Kiely East prospect in the Pre-rift play
is considered the top prospect with gross mean un-risked prospective resources
of 280 million barrels of oil equivalent mapped on licence in FEL 2/13. The
prospect continues into open acreage to the south of FEL 2/13 and has the
potential to double in size. These additional volumes are not included in the
prospective resources presented in the table below. Europa has purchased the
TGS CREAN 3D data which provides complete seismic coverage over the entirety
of the Kiely prospects.

                                                                                                                                 In house prospective resources                                                                                                                                  
 Licence                                 Prospect                                Play                                                                                                  Gross Prospective Resources mmboe*                                                                Equity  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Un-risked                                                            
                                                           Low                                    Best                                    High                                    Mean                   
 FEL 2/13                                Kiely East (+)                          Pre-rift                                                  52                                      187                                     612                                     280                    100%   
 FEL 2/13                                Kiely West (+)                          Pre-rift                                                  23                                      123                                     534                                     225                    100%   
 FEL 2/13                                Kilroy (+)                              Cret. Slope Apron                                         37                                      177                                     734                                     312                    100%   
 FEL 2/13                                Doyle A - west                          Cret. slope channel                                       12                                      38                                      115                                     54                     100%   
 FEL 2/13                                Doyle A - Centre                        Cret. slope channel                                       16                                      51                                      149                                     70                     100%   
 FEL 2/13                                Doyle A - east                          Cret. slope channel                                       36                                      110                                     327                                     154                    100%   
 FEL 2/13                                Doyle B                                 Cret. slope channel                                       22                                      76                                      264                                     119                    100%   
 FEL 2/13                                Doyle C                                 Cret. slope channel                                       12                                      44                                      155                                     71                     100%   
 FEL 2/13                                Lead F                                  Syn-rift                                                   4                                      23                                      102                                     44                     100%   
 Total                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1329                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 *million barrels of oil equivalent. The hydrocarbon system is considered an oil play and mmboe is used to take account of associated gas. However, due to the significant uncertainties in the available geological information, there is a possibility of gas charge.                          
                                                                                 
 (+)prospect extends outside licence, volumes are on-licence                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Europa follows Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) guidelines for petroleum
reserves and resources classification. By definition prospective resources are
recoverable. Further information can be found on the SPE website
https://bit.ly/2LtLVIa .

A drilling location for a first exploration well on Kiely East has been
identified. Subject to regulatory consent Europa plans to acquire a site
survey as part of preparations to drill an exploration well once funding and
regulatory permissions for drilling are in place.

Europa has licence applications in process for FEL 3/13 and LO 16/22, further
information will be provided as it becomes available.

The information communicated in this announcement contains inside information
for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No.
596/2014.

* * ENDS * *

For further information please visit www.europaoil.com or contact:

 Hugh Mackay      Europa                  + 44 (0) 20 7224 3770  
 Phil Greenhalgh  Europa                  + 44 (0) 20 7224 3770  
 Matt Goode       finnCap Ltd             + 44 (0) 20 7220 0500  
 Simon Hicks      finnCap Ltd             + 44 (0) 20 7220 0500  
 Camille Gochez   finnCap Ltd             + 44 (0) 20 7220 0500  
 Frank Buhagiar   St Brides Partners Ltd  + 44 (0) 20 7236 1177  
 Juliet Earl      St Brides Partners Ltd  + 44 (0) 20 7236 1177  

Notes

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc has a diversified portfolio of multi-stage
hydrocarbon assets that includes production, exploration and development
interests, in countries that are politically stable, have transparent
licensing processes, and offer attractive terms. In 2018 Europa produced 94
boepd. Its highly prospective exploration projects include the Wressle
development in the UK (targeting production start-up in 2020 at 500 bopd
gross) and six licences offshore Ireland with the potential to host gross mean
un-risked prospective resources of 6.4 billion barrels oil equivalent and 1.5
tcf gas across all six licences.



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