REG - Predator O&G Hldgs - Update on MOU-5 drilling plans & Helium potential

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08/08/2024 07:00

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RNS Number : 6057Z  Predator Oil & Gas Holdings PLC  08 August 2024

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8 August 2024

 

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

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Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc

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

 

Morocco - Update on MOU-5 drilling plans

 

Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc (PRD), the Jersey-based Oil and Gas
Company with near-term hydrocarbon operations focussed on Morocco and
Trinidad announces an update on MOU-5 drilling plans.

 

Highlights

 

·    MOU-5 well planning re-commenced upon ratification of entry into
First Extension Period

 

·    High impact Jurassic well targeting gas-to-power in Morocco in a
success case

 

·    Updated Independent Technical Report: net P50 Prospective Resources
of 5.916 TCF

 

·    Review of the possibility of helium potential to be evaluated by
MOU-5 and MOU-4 rigless well testing

 

MOU-5

Targeting potential Jurassic gas for the Moroccan gas-to-power market.

Operational planning for the MOU-5 well has been impacted, as for rigless well
testing, by a requirement to enter the First Extension Period, with the
necessary statutory approvals under the form of (i) a  Ministerial Order
executed by the Ministry of Energy granting the entry into the First Extension
Period.

The Company has been taking steps to delay  the mobilisation logistics for
final equipment requirements and services to avoid incurring any significant
costs whilst waiting on regulatory documentation.

There was a new requirement to move the MOU-5 well surface location 277 metres
to the northwest to avoid an irrigation system and water well used by local
olive tree farms.

As a result a new deviated well had to be programmed with a small amount of
additional well inventory that was required to be imported and which would
require customs clearance documentation.

The new location is also located in an area just east of the Moulouya River
floodplain belonging to the public hydraulic domain of Oued Moulouya, Saka
District, Guercif Province. A licence valid until 6 April 2025 has
subsequently been granted to the Company to temporarily occupy the site for
MOU-5 well operations.

An updated Independent Technical Report by Scorpion Geoscience Limited for the
Jurassic MOU-5 structure gives net P50 upside Prospective Resources for gas of
5.916 TCF to the Company, with a conservative risking of 12% versus the
Company's internal upside Chance of Success of 50%.

The MOU-5 drilling objectives remain as announced on 6 June 2024.

Operational planning has now re-commenced, with the regulatory process
concluded, to complete the MOU-5 drilling programme this year at the earliest
opportunity.

MOU-5 and MOU-4 well rigless testing to evaluate helium presence potential

Background to helium potential - MOU-3 gas sample

The gas sample analysed at 1395 metres MD KB in the Moulouya Fan in MOU-3,
unlike any other shallower gas sample collected whilst drilling, showed
evidence for the presence of helium. MOU-3 was drilled closed to significant
faults extending down into basement rocks.

The Company will be undertaking a more detailed independent review of the
potential for helium over the coming months, which will incorporate results
from the MOU-4 rigless testing programme. Multispectral satellite spectroscopy
analysis will also be undertaken over the Guercif licence area.

Based on the available data, the Company has decided to include a test for
helium in the MOU-4 rigless testing programme and for a potential testing
programme for MOU-5 if the well results are positive for gas. Testing
operations will be coordinated to take place immediately after drilling  of
the MOU-5 well, before the rig is demobilised to another location, in order to
make cost-effective use of an on-site pressure-volume-temperature ("PVT"")
laboratory to provide more accurate screening for the presence of potential
helium gas.

Paul Griffiths, Executive Chairman of Predator, commented:

"Whilst MOU-5 is focussed on finding potential gas resources of a sufficient
size to service the gas-to-power market in Morocco, the evaluation of the
potential for helium presence would be an added value to the area development.
Recent helium discoveries and newsflow is leading to a better understanding of
how and where helium deposits might be generated. It is likely that this has
been over-looked in the past where the focus has been on developing
hydrocarbon potential in areas which potentially are also helium domains. We
are cautious but excited regarding the potential for helium in Guercif. The
Moulouya Fan and the carbonate reservoirs that may be encountered in MOU-5
have the ability to hold large volumes of gas and have effective seals."

For further information visit www.predatoroilandgas.com (about:blank)

 

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

 

Enquiries:

 Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Tel: +44 (0) 1534 834 600

 Paul Griffiths                Executive Chairman                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Info@predatoroilandgas.com (about:blank)

 Lonny Baumgardner    Managing Director

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 David Coffman / Jon Belliss

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 Billy Clegg / Owen Roberts / Fergus Young                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              P (mailto:PredatorOilGas@camarco.co.uk) redatorOilGas@camarco.co.uk

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Notes to Editors:

 

Predator is an oil & gas company with a diversified portfolio of scaled
assets including unique and highly prospective onshore Moroccan gas exposure,
with multiple fully financed upcoming catalysts.

 

Predator has two high quality, scalable gas projects in Morocco with fast pace
of commercialisation and blue sky potential. Guercif is a shallow CNG biogenic
gas development with multiple traps and at least 4 separate reservoirs with
recently drilled wells due to be flow tested. The Giant Jurassic Titanosaurus
is a shallow thermogenic gas prospect evaluating 249m of potential gross
reservoir thickness in a trap of 187 km2 for pipeline gas to power, with
pipeline 2.5km from wellhead.   Moroccan gas prices are high and the fiscal
terms are some of the best in the world.  Predator also has a diversified
portfolio of assets across Ireland and Trinidad, which is a near-term
revenue-generating project.

 

Predator has an experienced management team with particular knowledge in
Moroccan sub surface and operations.  The team specialises in incorporating
modern, proven technologies and processes from Canada and the US to provinces
where the conventional technologies did not allow their hydrocarbon potential
to be revealed.

 

Predator Oil & Gas Holdings plc is listed on London Stock Exchange's Main
Market with a Standard Listing (symbol: PRD). For further information, visit
www.predatoroilandgas.com (https://www.predatoroilandgas.com/)

 

 

 

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