Placing to Raise £3 Million

Predator Oil & Gas Holdings

15/05/2026 07:00

RNS Number : 4317E

Predator Oil & Gas Holdings PLC

15 May 2026

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

15 May 2026

 

                          Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc / Index: LSE / Epic: PRD / Sector: Oil & Gas

Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc

("Predator" or the "Company" and together with its subsidiaries "the Group")

 

                                                         Placing to raise £3 million

 

Highlights

 

·    Potential award of Corrib South offshore Ireland  is a new Company development.

Recoverable gas resources 424.8 (P50) to 904.7 (P10) BCF with 44% Chance of Success. 

Adjacent to Corrib Gas Field infrastructure and addresses Security of Energy Supply.

 

·    Snowcap-3 site works onshore Trinidad have commenced.

 

·    Additional Snowcap-3 production testing programme planned.

 

·    Snowcap-2 and Jacobin-1 well reactivations and feasibility study on gas re-injection to boost production rates.

 

·    MOU-6 well planning and inventory build being progressed to maintain drilling schedule. 

 

·    April net production revenues in Trinidad 26% ahead of Company internal forecast.

 

 

 

Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc (LSE: PRD), the Jersey based Oil and Gas Company with producing hydrocarbon operations focussed on Trinidad and Morocco, announces that it has conditionally placed 85,714,286 million new ordinary shares of no par value in the Company (the "Placing Shares") at a placing price of 3.5 pence each (the "Placing Price") to raise £3 million (before expenses) (the "Placing").

The capital raise of £3m was arranged by the Company's joint brokers AlbR and OAK Securities.

Use of Proceeds

The Proceeds of the Placing, less expenses, will be spent on:

1.     Deepening the proposed Snowcap-3 ("SC-3") well by 150 feet and adding an additional testing programme for the Herrera #8 Sand, based on a revised reservoir correlation between Snowcap-1 and Rochard-1.

 

2.     Reactivation of the Snowcap-2ST1 and Jacobin-1 wells and acquire information for a gas re-injection reservoir engineering study for Snowcap-1 and Snowcap-2ST1 to assess the potential to maintain higher production rates for longer.

 

3.   Purchase Guercif MOU-6 long-lead well inventory to maintain the current drilling schedule given the impact on logistics of the Middle East conflict.

 

Carry out preparatory reservoir engineering and facilities planning for the proposed pilot CNG development at Guercif.

 

Commission an  Environmental Impact Assessment for potential 3D seismic and a well to the Triassic TAGI in 2027.

 

These are prudent activities to support the ongoing partner negotiations, whilst third party technical and legal due diligence is being completed, to maintain the timeline to potential "First Gas" upon a successful MOU-6 well testing programme.

 

4.   Following a recent positive communication from the regulatory authorities in Ireland, the path for the Company to follow to secure progress for the award of the Corrib South successor authorisation has been clearly defined and is achievable within a short time framework.

 

Consequently, the Company is updating its technical package for Corrib South to include gas storage potential and will test the market for potential 3D seismic acquisition in 2027.

 

The SLR Consulting (Ireland) Ltd ("SLR") Competent Person's Report (2019) will be updated to incorporate economics based on current gas prices and additional capacity in the Corrib infrastructure.

 

For context SLR gave unrisked gross recoverable gas in the range 424.8 (P50) to 904.7 (P10) BCF. The updated technical package will be focussed on supporting the P10 Case. Tracs International Ltd (2023) gave a 44% chance of success for the Corrib South prospect.

 

Corrib South was originally held as a Reserved Licence by Shell, the former operator of the Corrib gas field and was awarded as a Licencing Option to Predator Gas Ventures Limited in 2016 as a result of the Atlantic Margin Bid Round.

 

Parties previously expressing an interest in Corrib South will be re-visited based on this new development and additional potential partners will be approached, capitalising on the quest for strengthening Europe's Security of Energy Supply.

 

 

Production operations onshore Trinidad for the month of April resulted in the Company receiving after costs and royalties approximately US$95,000 under the NABI Master Services Agreement, which represented a 26% increase over the forecast amount for April in he Company's working capital forecast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

USE OF PROCEEDS
Budgeted estimated costs (£)
Onshore Trinidad
1. Deepening of Snowcap-3 well to 5,450 feet measured depth
2. Contingency for additional production testing of Herrera #8 Sand in Snowcap-3
3. Snowcap-2ST1 and Jacobin-1 well reactivations
Contingency to include Snowcap-1 subject to results of above work programme
4. Gas re-injection feasibility study for Snowcap-1 and -2ST1 for pilot secondary oil recovery
5. In-situgas-to-power feasibility study for shallow gas in Jacobin-1
250,000
400,000
250,000
220,000
100,000
100,000
Onshore Morocco
6. Purchase of long lead well inventory for MOU-6 to maintain drilling schedule
7. Reservoir engineering and facilities planning for proposed pilot CNG development
8. EIA for potential 3D seismic and MOU-7 Triassic well in 2027
520,000
100,000
85,000
Offshore Ireland
9. Update the technical package for Corrib South to include gas storage potential and test the market for 3D seismic acquisition in 2027
10.Update the Corrib South Competent Person Report with current gas prices
11.Test the market for potential partners for Corrib South
250,000
50,000
50,000
Administrative expenses and legal costs
325,000
New Ventures
Potential strategic investments to secure
ownership of infrastructure and facilities
300,000
TOTAL COSTS
3,000,000

Completion of the Placing

Completion of the Placing is conditional on, inter alia:-

the Placing Shares being admitted to listing on the Equity Shares (transition) category of the Official List and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities ("Admission").

Admission, Settlement and Dealings in the new Placing Shares

An applications will be made to the London Stock Exchange for Admission of the Placing Shares which is expected on or around 20 May 2026.

The rights attaching to the new Placing Shares will be uniform in all respects and all of the new Placing Shares will rank pari passu, and form a single class for all purposes with, the existing issued shares of no par value in the Company.

Warrants

6 million warrants are being issued exercisable at 3.5p. The Warrants have an expiry date of three years from the date of Admission.

Total Voting Rights

Following Admission, the Company has ordinary shares of no par value in issue, each with one vote per share (and none of which are held in treasury). The total number of voting rights in the Company is therefore 900,572,100. This figure of 900,572,100 may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for calculations to determine if they have a notifiable interest in the share capital of the Company under the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules, or if such interest has changed.

Paul Griffiths, Chief Executive Officer of Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc commented:

"The new development associated with the application for the Corrib South successor authorisation is a significant boost for the Company's potential operations offshore Ireland, that have hitherto been in a state of limbo.

 

This is timely news as it comes against the background of a crisis in confidence that Europe can maintain security of gas supply during periods of conflict and from sources where energy is a political weapon without anything other than indigenous self-sufficiency to meet demand for gas in the next 10 years and beyond. Green electrification is simply not going to be capable of replacing periodic reliance on gas during this period.

 

Corrib South has always been a compelling potential addition to the Corrib infrastructure and additionally offers a faster track route to gas storage and energy affordability than any other option currently available to Ireland.

 

It therefore makes abundant sense for us now to bring Corrib South back into our active operations portfolio. Morocco and Atlantic Ireland are two attractive gas projects adjacent and linked to European gas infrastructure. Our immediate objective is to ensure that the wider industry takes notice of our strategic position with relation to potentially material gas assets."

 

 

  

Follow the Company on X @PredatorOilGas.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 on market abuse.

 

For more information please visit the Company's website at www.predatoroilandgas.com: 

 

Enquiries:

Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc
Paul Griffiths Chief Executive Officer
Tel: +44 (0) 1534 834 600
Info@predatoroilandgas.com
AlbR Capital Limited
David Coffman / Jon Belliss
OAK Securities
Jerry Keen / Calvin Man
Tel: +44 (0)207 469 0930
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3973 3678
Flagstaff Strategic and Investor Communications
Tim Thompson
Alison Alfrey
Fergus Mellon
Tel: +44 (0)207 129 1474
predator@flagstaffcomms.com

Notes to Editors:   

 

Predator is an oil & gas company with a portfolio of assets including unique and highly prospective onshore Moroccan gas exposure and production, appraisal and exploration projects onshore Trinidad.

Morocco offers a potentially faster route to commercialisation of shallow biogenic gas through a CNG or micro-LNG development. The structure penetrated by the MOU-1 and MOU-3 wells is currently defined as having the best potential for an application for an Exploitation Concession in 2026. The Company is committed to partnering with entities capable of supporting a future development decision and who have already identified the opportunity as one warranting the execution of a Collaboration Agreement and a Memorandum of Understanding. Moroccan gas prices are high, and the fiscal terms are some of the best in the world. The presence of gas export infrastructure adjacent to the MOU-1 and MOU-3 structure allows for a scalable gas development after initial CNG or micro-LNG gas production over time establishes the extent of connected gas volumes and the capability of reservoirs to deliver at plateau rates over time.    

Trinidad offers the security of a mature onshore oil province that has been producing hydrocarbons for over 50 years. Predator has assembled a portfolio of onshore producing fields with opportunities for production enhancement and additional infill development and appraisal drilling. Significant legacy tax losses, economies of scale and the application of new low-cost technologies are factors that can improve profit margins per barrel of oil produced.  A Master Services Agreement with local operator NABI Construction relieves the Company of the burden and costs of operating the fields and executing drilling and heavy well workovers. In return the Company receives 30% of gross sales revenues for which it can use its acquired tax losses to substantially reduce Petroleum Profit Tax from 50% to an effective rate of 12.5%.

Predator has an experienced technical, financial and legal management team with particular knowledge of the Moroccan and Trinidad sub-surface and operations and an ability to complete M & A transactions in Trinidad and receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner and without any unnecessary advisory fees for transactions.  The Company's strategy is to operate at a much reduced overhead compared to other operators with portfolios of assets of similar extent to maintain competitiveness.

Predator Oil & Gas Holdings plc is listed on the Equity Shares (transition) category of the Official List of the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities (symbol: PRD).

For further information, visit www.predatoroilandgas.com

 

 

 

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