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Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings)Announcement

22/04/2024 07:00

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RNS Number : 3869L  Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) PLC  22 April 2024

 

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

 

22 April 2024

 

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc

("Europa" or the "Company")

 

Updated Irish Licence Emissions Report

 

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the AIM quoted UK, Ireland and West
Africa focused oil and gas exploration, development and production company,
announces that it has published on the Company's website a third-party report
(the "Report") that details the results of an updated study which calculated
the expected emissions associated with the development of a future 1 TCF
indigenous gas discovery on Europa's Irish offshore licence FEL 4/19 (the
"Licence").

 

The Report was independently researched and compiled by sustain:able
(https://www.esgable.com/), an ISO certified emissions advisory company that
specialises in forecasting greenhouse gas emissions associated with the
upstream oil and gas industry, and is an update to the prior sustain:able
report published by the Company on 7 March 2023. The Report was commissioned
following the recently redefined 1.5 TCF Inishkea West prospect by Europa,
which was a result of a remapping exercise of the prospects on the Licence
following the reprocessing of the existing seismic data, and the 2022
emissions data recently published by the UK government.

 

The key findings of the study listed in the Report are as follows:

·    the average operational life-of-field emissions intensity for the
Corrib gas field is 5.3 kgCO(2)e/boe 1 ;

·    the average operational life-of-field emissions intensity for
indigenous gas on the Licence is forecast to be 2.8 kgCO(2)e/boe;

·    the weighted average carbon intensity of imported gas into Ireland
from the UK during 2022 is estimated to be 36 kgCO(2)/boe 2  (estimated to be
over 12 times more CO(2) than indigenous gas from the Licence);

·   LNG 3  accounted for 26.7% of UK imported gas during 2022 with a
weighted average carbon intensity of 78 kgCO(2)/boe (over 27 times more CO(2)
than Irish indigenous gas from the Licence), and,

·    the projected production from Inishkea West has the potential to
almost eliminate the need for gas imports from the UK in 2030 through to the
end of 2032 (based on SEAI 4  demand predictions) and therefore to
dramatically reduce associated emissions.

 

The very low emissions associated with the development of a gas discovery at
Inishkea West detailed in the report are primarily due to the following
factors:

·    the close proximity of Inishkea West to the existing Corrib field
(Corrib is adjacent to the Licence and Inishkea West is only c.18km from the
Corrib infrastructure);

·    gas would be produced through the existing subsea pipeline and
facilities located at the Bellanaboy Gas Terminal;

·    the quality of the gas and the low levels of impurities associated
with the gas;

·    the quality of the reservoir anticipated and the forecast initial
production rates from Inishkea West wells;

·    the anticipated size of the gas resource; and

·    the forecast production profiles associated with a gas discovery on
the Licence.

 

 

Will Holland, Chief Executive Officer of Europa, said:

 

"This updated emissions report reinforces the importance of the gas resource
at Inishkea West, which has the potential to not only eradicate the need for
higher emissions intensity gas imports from the UK for up to 3 years, but also
a discovery would help Ireland meet its carbon emission reduction targets. A
discovery at Inishkea West could provide security of gas supply for Ireland
during the transition to renewable energy, which is in line with the EU's
stated goals for diversity of gas supply.

 

FEL 4/19 contains the large 1.5 TCF low risk Inishkea West gas prospect where,
given the proximity to existing infrastructure, a discovery could be brought
online quickly providing domestic gas with, as this report demonstrates,
significantly lower emissions intensity than imported gas from the UK, Norway
or further afield.

 

We are now in the process of progressing FEL 4/19 to drilling, which requires
us to attract additional partners to this highly prospective licence."

 

* * ENDS * *

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 / Rob Patrick         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. On 21 December 2023 the
Company acquired 42.9% interest in Antler Global, which holds an 80% interest
in the EG-08 PSC offshore Equatorial Guinea. EG-08 contains an estimated gross
mean un-risked 1.4 trillion cubic feet ("TCF") gas prospective resources that
can be tested with a single well with a 92% chance of success. EG-08 is
adjacent to the Chevron licence that contains the Alen gas field which is
connected via pipeline to the Bioko Island LNG plant. Europa took over
operatorship of PEDL343 ("Cloughton") on 27 July 2023 in which Europa holds a
40% interest and contains an estimated 192 billion cubic feet ("BCF") of gas
in place. Europa holds a 25% interest in P.2358, Block 13/23c ("Serenity") in
the Outer Moray Firth area of the North Sea, which contains the 2019 Serenity
oil discovery. 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 TCF gas. Inishkea West
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.

 1  kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent per barrel of oil equivalent, where
1 barrel of oil equates to 6,000 standard cubic feet of gas.

 2  kilograms of carbon dioxide per barrel of oil equivalent, where 1 barrel
of oil equates to 6,000 standard cubic feet of gas.

 3  liquified natural gas

 4  Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland

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