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RNS Number : 1436H  Orcadian Energy PLC  12 November 2025

12 November 2025

Orcadian Energy plc ("Orcadian" or the "Company")

The Independent Power Corporation plc presents at ADIPEC

The Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference ("ADIPEC")
is the world's largest energy event, attracting nearly a quarter of a million
attendees and over sixteen thousand delegates. We were delighted that our
partner, The Independent Power Corporation PLC ("IPC"), was represented by
Ana Gorgyan, Director of Engineering, who presented twice at the conference.
Ms Gorgyan spoke on  Next Generation Power Systems for the New Digital Age,
showcasing the Earlham gas field as a strong example of practical
decarbonisation. Orcadian and IPC intend to develop Earlham to supply gas to a
power station to be constructed by Marine Low Carbon Power Ltd ("MLCP") and
located adjacent to the field. The generated power can be exported to data
centres located on the M25 corridor, where demand for clean, dispatchable
electricity has risen beyond the grid's current capacity. Carbon dioxide
produced from the reservoir and from the combustion of gas is intended to be
reinjected into the Earlham field to maintain reservoir pressure and  enhance
gas recovery.

This plan is described in IPC's presentation pack delivered at ADIPEC (see
slide six), available to download here:
https://orcadian.energy/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ADIPEC-2025-IPC-Low-Carbon-Slide-Deck-01-11-25-FINAL.pdf
(https://orcadian.energy/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ADIPEC-2025-IPC-Low-Carbon-Slide-Deck-01-11-25-FINAL.pdf)
Slide six outlines the potential development scheme for Earlham, and we are
excited to progress this project as a reliable, low carbon gas development
capable of delivering clean power to the London area ahead of the Great Grid
Upgrade.

IPC also delivered a second presentation,  "Next Generation Power Systems for
the New Digital Era", which illustrates (see slide four) how the development
of Earlham can support an onshore data centre. This presentation pack is
available here:
https://orcadian.energy/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ADIPEC-2025-IPC-Digitalisation-Slide-Deck-01-11-25-FINAL.pdf
(https://orcadian.energy/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ADIPEC-2025-IPC-Digitalisation-Slide-Deck-01-11-25-FINAL.pdf)

Relationship with IPC

The Company announced on 12 December 2024 that IPC had acquired the loan
advanced by Shell International Trading and Shipping Company ("STASCO") and
had loaned the Company further funds. As noted in the Company's results for
the half year ended 31 December 2024, released to the market on 10 March 2025,
the Company had intended to sell a 50% interest in P2680 to MLCP. Orcadian
further announced on 18 June 2025, that it is working in
partnership with IPC and MLCP to place the ownership of Licence P2680
(Earlham and Orwell), and Licence P2650 (shallow gas prospects), into a
corporate joint venture structure to support the plan to deliver carbon free
energy from new, offshore balancing power plants to IPC's large energy
user customers. IPC has agreed that part of the consideration for a share in
Earlham would entail cancellation of the Shell and IPC loans. Discussions are
ongoing in relation to this joint venture, and a further announcement will be
made as and when necessary.

Orcadian, IPC and MLCP continue to discuss an arrangement whereby both gas
licences are sold by Orcadian to HALO, which is 50% owned by Orcadian and 50%
owned by IPC alongside an alternative farm-in structure.

Steve Brown, Orcadian CEO, said:

"Today our business has three strands, a viscous oil business with our 18.75%
interest in Pilot (79 mmbbls, gross 2C), 100% interest in the Elke licence (53
mmbbls, gross 2C) and a 50% interest in the Fynn licence (268 mmbbls, gross
2C); a gas business based on the 100% owned Earlham licence which also
contains Earlham discovery and the partially depleted Orwell field (145 bcf,
gross) and the 50% interest in the Mid North Sea exploration licence which has
two significant leads containing 269 bcf of prospective resources.

"Finally, we have an advantaged tax position: HALO could potentially offset
all upstream taxes on £115 million of income, when it acquires production.

"Ana's presentation describes how gas can be used to deliver reliable low
carbon power to enable the development of data centres in the UK. Orcadian
intends to be at the forefront of delivering clean reliable power at
attractive prices to make the UK the right place for the Hyper Scalers to
locate their data centres, without relying on government or bill payer
subsidies."

 

For further information on the Company please visit the Company's website:
https://orcadian.energy (https://orcadian.energy)

 

Contact:

 Orcadian Energy plc                              + 44 20 7920 3150
 Steve Brown, CEO

 Alan Hume, CFO
 Zeus (Nomad and Joint Broker)                    +44 20 3829 5000
 Darshan Patel / John Moran (Investment Banking)

 Simon Johnson (Corporate Broking)
 Novum (Joint Broker)                             +44 207 399 9425
 Colin Rowbury / Jon Belliss

 

Qualified Person's Statement

Pursuant to the requirements of the AIM Rules and in particular, the AIM Note
for Mining and Oil and Gas Companies, Maurice Bamford has reviewed and
approved the technical information and resource reporting contained in this
announcement.

Maurice has more than 36 years' experience in the oil & gas industry and 3
years in academia. He holds a BSc in Geology from Queens University Belfast
and a PhD in Geology from the National University of Ireland. Maurice is a
Fellow of the Geological Society, London, and a member of the Geoscience
Energy Society of Great Britain. He is Exploration and Geoscience Manager at
Orcadian Energy.

About Orcadian Energy

Orcadian is a North Sea focused, low emissions, oil and gas exploration and
development company. Orcadian may be a small operator, but it is also nimble,
and the Directors believe it has grasped opportunities that have eluded some
of the much bigger companies. As we strike a balance between Net Zero and a
sustainable energy supply, Orcadian intends to play its part to minimise the
cost of Net Zero and to deliver reliable energy to the UK.

Viscous oil

As part of its viscous oil strategy Orcadian has an 18.75% carried interest in
the Pilot development project, Pilot was discovered by PetroFina in 1989 and
has been well appraised. The field has excellent quality reservoir and has
contingent resources of 79 MMbbl of a viscous oil ranging in gravity from 17º
API in the South of the reservoir to 12º API in the North. In planning the
Pilot development, Orcadian has selected polymer flooding and wind power to
transform the production of viscous oil into a cleaner and greener process.
Polymer significantly reduces fluid handling requirements and hence energy
consumption as well as boosting recovery. Ithaca Energy, operator of the
Captain field in the Inner Moray Firth, has enjoyed consistent success in
applying polymer flood to the highly analogous Captain field. Following the
recent farm-down of Pilot, the project is now under the stewardship of Ping
Petroleum UK PLC ("Ping") and is intended to be amongst the lowest carbon
emitting oil production facilities in the world.

Ping is progressing a low-emissions, phased, field development plan for Pilot
based upon a polymer flood of the reservoir, a Floating Production Storage and
Offloading vessel (FPSO) and provision of power from a floating wind turbine
or a local wind farm.

Orcadian has an 18.75% fully carried interest in Licence P2244 (block 21/27a)
and a 100% interest in Licence P2482 (blocks 28/2a and 28/3a). Ping is
operator of P2244 and the Pilot development project. P2482 covers the Elke and
Narwhal discoveries which contain 53 MMbbl of contingent resources.

The Fynn licence (P2634) which was awarded in the 33(rd) Round contains a very
substantial heavy oil discovery. About 88% of the resource on a best technical
case is estimated to lie within the area of the licence. Orcadian has a 50%
working interest in the Fynn licence which is operated by Serica Energy. The
Fynn licence covers blocks 14/15a, 14/20d and 15/11a.

Gas to Artificial Intelligence

Orcadian was awarded two gas licences in the 33(rd) Round. The Mid-North Sea
High licence, P2650, contains shallow gas leads. Orcadian applied in
partnership with Triangle Energy, an Australian listed energy company.
Orcadian is licence administrator and holds 50% of the licence. The Mid North
Sea High licence covers blocks 29/16, 29/17, 29/18, 29/19, 29/21, 29/22,
29/23, 29/27 and 29/28.

The Earlham and Orwell licence, P2680, 100% Orcadian, contains the Earlham
discovery, a low-calorie gas discovery with 114 bcf of methane resources on a
P50 basis, the Clover prospect which has P50 prospective resources of 153 bcf,
and the decommissioned Orwell field which has redevelopment potential,
alongside a number of smaller prospects.

Orcadian intends progressing these and other projects in partnership with IPC
through its 50% -owned, tax-advantaged, HALO subsidiary. Since 2013 HALO has
incurred around £50 million of pre-trading capital expenditures which we
expect will generate, on commencement of a ring-fence trade, tax allowances in
the region of £115 million when Ring Fence Expenditure Supplement is applied.
Orcadian continues to evaluate opportunities to acquire development and
producing opportunities for HALO.

About IPC and IPC New World Energy Limited

IPC New World Energy Ltd is a subsidiary of Independent Power Corporation PLC
("IPC") which since 1995 has been a developer, owner and operator of power
plants on five continents across the globe. IPC has developed, owned or
operated around 10,000 MW of conventional power capacity across a wide range
of project types including gas, diesel, wind, biofuels and hydroelectric
plants. Thermal plants have included combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power
plants (including the first in country in Bolivia and South Africa) as well
as combined heat and power (CHP) projects and emissions reduction projects in
CIS countries. In recent years, IPC has developed projects in Azerbaijan,
Chile, Ghana and the United Kingdom as an independent developer, sponsor
and operator of power plants. Its IPCNWE subsidiary has in excess of 7.5 GW of
offshore wind and BESS (battery energy storage systems) projects in the United
Kingdom and Europe.

About the Marine Low Carbon Power Company Limited

MLCP was formed in 2020 to generate low carbon balancing power in UK
territorial waters using offshore gas reserves. The energy can be generated
flexibly to provide carbon-free energy when wind and solar energy sources are
unavailable, therefore supporting and complementing UK renewable energy -
unlike CCGT baseload gas fired power plants which compete with renewables and
which do not have the operational ability to stop and start at short notice.
 

MLCP is a joint venture between IPC New World Energy Ltd and Richmond Offshore
Energy Ltd.

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