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i3Energy buoyant after Serenity discovery North Sea-focused oil and gas junior with two 100% owned licence,


North Sea focused oil and gas junior with two 100% owned licences
Discovery recently announced at Serenity prospect
Liberator also set to come into production following remapping after disappointing drill result
Talks underway to fund Liberator development

How it’s doing

Serenity

In October, I3 Energy PLC (LON:I3E) reported a discovery from its Serenity 13/23c-10 well.

Describing it as transformational, I3 said the well results were consistent with its pre-drill estimates of 197 million barrels of oil in place.

The company will carry out further appraisal work at Serenity to assess how best to develop the prospect.

Liberator

Also in October, I3 combined results from the disappointing Liberator 13/23c-9 well with seismic data to formulate a development programme for that prospect.

Phase 1 will target 63mln barrels of oil in place at Liberator through the drilling of up to four wells with recoverable reserves expected to be 23mln barrels.

A phase two exploration programme will target an additional 396mln barrels.

Drilling and funding

The company has an option over the rig that drilled Serenity until the end of January with the owner agreeing to defer payment into 2020 to allow a third well in the programme to be completed.

Funding talks are ongoing to allow I3 to develop Liberator on its own without having to bring in a partner, which might include a US$100mln reserve-based lending facility depending on drill results.

“This result also adds confidence to our revised mapping of the Liberator field, which utilises the same reprocessed seismic dataset now used to map the Serenity field and integrates data from the recently drilled 13/23c-9 Liberator well,” said Majid Shafiq, chief executive.
What the boss says

Majid Shafiq, chief executive, said: "The discovery of the Serenity oilfield, a potentially very large oil resource, is a transformational event for i3 Energy plc. We now have proven oil in a second structure on our licenses.

“It is the culmination of three years of detailed geological and reservoir analysis and validates our regional model for the Liberator and Serenity oilfields and neighbouring structures".

“We will now integrate data from the 13/23c-10 well into our geological modelling as we develop an appraisal and development plan for Serenity, which we believe is connected to the undeveloped Tain oilfield,” he added.
Inflexion points

Funding agreed for Liberator development
Serenity testing confirms potential
Appraisal and development plans for Serenity confirmed

Should all the above happen, then north of £1.50+

Spud not week, then around 30 day to TD.
Early December results.
RBL agreed by end of December
Possible news about farm out sale
Possible news about block development partners

Less that 1.5 Million Cash which is peanuts for a Oil and Gas company
Billions of Shares in issue.
Only going to produce 500 Barrels a day, when they start production.
They estimate only 3 Million income by end of 2020
And as was stated today, they are funded for the next well but moving forward they will need to raise capital
So not good moving forward, for the retail investor

They drilled an extra 200 ft and found this sand, which is another positive step forward for I3E Majid Shafiq said this morning

I do not know anything what is not already in the public domain. Also look at your own SP over the last 5 years that tells its own tail. Anyway goodbye as i came here to offer some, maybe good news that i heard today and now i am drawing myself into the negative aspects. Which if you check my posting history, i look on the bright side of life GLA

No not bizarre, for what was said this morning, very near term the SP may increase but long term no. Also Union Jack is on my list of companies that i do not invest in. My own golden rule is, never invest if on this list. What ever the news or the SP is doing

I am not celebrating, as i am not invested here. I was just passing on some news from this morning that's hopefully good for shareholders

In their presentation this morning, they said the council at next weeks appeal 5th are not submitting a defense which should mean the planning permission will pass

News will be after 5th November, as the council are not going to submit a defense against planning permission

As i watch Majid Shafiq this morning at the O&G Conference. He was confident and spoke with ease and answered all questions.
RBL would be between 5 - 8% interest.
20000 Barrels of Oil per day- Production 2019.
Phase 2 Development paid with Sales of Oil.
Will Farm Out or take on partners if approached and good offer.
Spud next week and are more confident of success due to the added data they now process.

Why are you surprised that the SP has fallen today, when another 1,441,860 New Ordinary Shares hit the Market today?

Due to the unexpected well result at 13/23c-9, and standby time incurred in advance of drilling the current 13/23c-10 well at Serenity, the Company has been working with Dolphin Drilling to extend its current 94-day contract. Due to Dolphin's excellent performance to date, i3 and Dolphin have agreed to enter into a strategic operational alliance for the use of Dolphin drilling rigs for i3 operations to August 2023, which will cover potential future appraisal and development drilling on Liberator and Serenity. Under the contract extension, i3 Energy has secured a right of first refusal on the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible rig to 31 January 2020 so that the Company can continue drilling operations at Serenity and Liberator. Associated with this contract extension, Dolphin has agreed to defer certain payments for drilling costs beyond 30 September 2019 which the Company will be due to settle between January and August 2020. With this payment deferral in place, i3 Energy remains comfortable that it has the cash resources available to conclude its planned 2019 3-well drilling operations.

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People have been saying since 24th September that Lombard have been dumping. Yet no RNS.

Also on the 24th they had 8,470,500 then on the 30th they had 8,576,105
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The Serenity 13/23c-10 well was successfully drilled on the Company's 100% owned Serenity prospect and is an oil discovery, with preliminary well results that are consistent with i3 Energy's pre-drill estimate of 197 MMbbls STOIIP for the entire Serenity closure within the Company's licence area

· The Liberator 13/23c-9 well findings have now been integrated with recently acquired seismic data, resulting in Liberator remapping as follows:

o Phase I development area to target 63 MMbbls STOIIP via up to 4 wells with the Company's revised expected recoverable reserves of 23 MMbbls

o Phase II prospective area to target 396 MMbbls STOIIP through future exploration drilling

o Liberator findings presentation available today on i3's website at http://www.i3.energy

· After planned plugging and abandonment of Serenity well 13/23c-10, the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible rig will mobilise back to the Liberator field to drill a pilot hole at a future development well at the remapped L2 structural high (approximately 500 meters north east of the 13/23c-9 well)

· Rig contract extension and payment deferral structure agreed with Dolphin Drilling

o i3 has right of first refusal on the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible rig to 31 January 2020

o Dolphin to partially defer payments into 2020 which enable the Company to adequately fund remainder of 2019 3-well drilling programme

· Company continuing to advance funding options to develop Liberator on a 100% basis, including negotiating for a reserve-based lending facility of up to $100 million pending successful Liberator drilling results

· 2,204,574 warrants to subscribe for Ordinary Shares at an exercise price of 56.85 pence issued to GE UK for oilfield services rendered by Baker Hughes



Majid Shafiq, CEO of i3 Energy commented:

"The discovery of the Serenity oilfield, a potentially very large oil resource, is a transformational event for i3 Energy plc.

We now have proven oil in a second structure on our licenses. It is the culmination of three years of detailed geological and reservoir analysis and validates our regional model for the Liberator and Serenity oilfields and neighboring structures. We will now integrate data from the 13/23c-10 well into our geological modelling as we develop an appraisal and development plan for Serenity, which we believe is connected to the undeveloped Tain oilfield.

This result also adds confidence to our revised mapping of the Liberator field, which utilises the same reprocessed seismic dataset now used to map the Serenity field, and integrates data from the recently drilled 13/23c-9 Liberator well. We now look forward to returning to Liberator where we'll continue the necessary drilling operations to progress that field towards development.

Serenity 13/23c-10 well results



Well 13/23c-10, drilled on the Serenity structure, has reached total depth ("TD"). The key geologic horizons were encountered within the prognosed tolerances, and data acquisition operations are nearing completion. The well was drilled down dip from the Repsol Sinopec operated Tain discovery and encountered a sequence of Captain and Coracle sands with oil confirmed in the interval from 4740ft total vertical depth subsea ("TVDSS") to as deep as 5252ft TVDSS. The oil water contact is estimated to be at 5270ft TVDSS based on pressure measurements, the same level as seen in the Blake and Liberator fields. The interval contained circa 339ft measured depth ("MD"), 165ft TVD of sand in total, with oil in the uppermost Captain sand and in the Coracle sands at the base of the interval, and, if connected to the Tain field as i3 anticipates, represents a mapped oil column of approximately 622ft TVD in the Captain sand alone. The net oil interval in the Captain sand was c.10ft of high porosity (30%) sand and thicker than in the up-dip Tain discovery consistent with the Company's expectation that the Captain sands thicken to the west in Serenity (as demonstrated by the c.150 ft of sand seen in the offset 13/23a-7A well situated to the west of Serenity). Reservoir quality is expected to be equivalent to that seen in the Tain wells, one of which (13/23b-5Z) tested at an estimated 2750 bopd from a 5ft interval in the Captain sand. Oil samples to be recovered from the downhole sampling tool are expected to be of similar quality to the 32° API oil found in the Tain field. The preliminary results, subject to further analysis, are closely in line with the Company's expectations and confirm the strong commercial potential of the Serenity area, of which i3 owns 100%.



Additional pressure measurements and samples are in the process of being taken and the data recovered will be analysed over the coming weeks to develop further appraisal and development options for the Serenity discovery. The well will then be plugged and abandoned as planned, following which the Borgland Dolphin will mobilise to recommence drilling operations on the Liberator field.

Drilling operations at the Company's Liberator field began on 21 August with the spudding of the 13/23c-9 pilot well, the objective of which was to establish the position and optimal trajectory for a future Phase I development well. On 10 September i3 announced that preliminary petrophysical information, obtained from the Measurement While Drilling ("MWD") tools in the well, indicated that the targeted upper Captain sands were absent at the 13/23c-9 location. This was an unexpected result. The Company thereafter acquired a vertical seismic profile ("VSP") and a shear wave sonic log from the well prior to its planned plugging and abandonment.



With the unexpected results, i3 Energy acquired the only other available modern seismic dataset over the area. Unprocessed samples of this data had previously been reviewed by the Company and were considered to be too 'noisy' for meaningful interpretation. However, the quality of the newly re-processed version of this seismic data was significantly improved and included broadband frequency information allowing an inversion process to be applied, providing a new visualisation of the reservoir architecture. i3 Energy's initial acquisition of this seismic data covered approximately 50 km2 over Liberator, and the Company subsequently purchased an additional 100 km2 of the data which encapsulates Serenity.



The new visualisation of the field closely matches the results seen in the 13/29c-9 well. The dataset has also been validated by predicting the observed results in the Serenity 13/23c-10 well. The inversion analysis, combined with the reflectivity mapping, has been used to generate revised mapping for the Liberator field and this can be viewed in a Liberator technical update presentation which will be made available on i3 Energy's website at http://www.i3.energy.



The Company's internal estimate of overall STOIIP in the A1, A2, A3 and A4 areas of the field has decreased from 91 to 63 MMbbls, while in the prospective west of the field the STOIIP has increased from 226 to 396 MMbbls (all volumes on a P50 unrisked basis), although the risk has increased due to the lower relief now being mapped between the A3 area and the prospective Liberator West. It is likely that i3 Energy will now seek to include the A3 area in the Phase I development and the Company's revised internal estimate of projected P50 recoverable reserves for Phase I is 23 MMbbls. The Company is in the process of ensuring permits are in place for the drilling of the next well on the Liberator Field, which will be a pilot well targeting the Captain sand in the remapped L2 accumulation - a closure to the north east of the 13/23c-9 well. This region, similar to the A3 and A4 target areas, has significant relief above the prognosed oil-water contact and will provide a good location for a future development well. The LA-03 well, originally planned to be drilled in i3's 2019 campaign, is now likely to be drilled as a pilot during Phas

Due to the unexpected well result at 13/23c-9, and standby time incurred in advance of drilling the current 13/23c-10 well at Serenity, the Company has been working with Dolphin Drilling to extend its current 94-day contract. Due to Dolphin's excellent performance to date, i3 and Dolphin have agreed to enter into a strategic operational alliance for the use of Dolphin drilling rigs for i3 operations to August 2023, which will cover potential future appraisal and development drilling on Liberator and Serenity. Under the contract extension, i3 Energy has secured a right of first refusal on the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible rig to 31 January 2020 so that the Company can continue drilling operations at Serenity and Liberator. Associated with this contract extension, Dolphin has agreed to defer certain payments for drilling costs beyond 30 September 2019 which the Company will be due to settle between January and August 2020. With this payment deferral in place, i3 Energy remains comfortable that it has the cash resources available to conclude its planned 2019 3-well drilling operations.



The Company is preparing to fund the Liberator Phase I development on a 100% working interest basis and continues to explore all options for its future funding requirements while advancing its negotiations for a reserve-based lending ("RBL") facility of up to $100 million. Progression of the RBL will require successful drilling at Liberator and the Company is obligated to enter the RBL no later than December 2019 in order to remain in compliance with the terms of its Junior Loan Note Facility.



As part of an agreement announced 2 July 2019, i3 Energy has issued 2,204,574 warrants to subscribe for Ordinary Shares at an exercise price of 56.85 pence per Ordinary Share to GE Oil & Gas UK Limited ("GE UK"). As previously referenced in the Company's announcement, these warrants relate to deferred payments for Oilfield Service ("OFS") contracts, entered into between i3 and Baker Hughes. To 30 September 2019, Baker Hughes had performed and invoiced i3 Energy for £1,253,300 worth of oilfield services. GE UK can exercise the warrants via cash settlement or in exchange for payments due to Baker Hughes under OFS contracts with the Company. Junior Noteholders will be offered participation in warrants on the same terms as GE UK, pro-rata to their ownership of i3 Energy on a fully-diluted basis, and also pro-rata to the proportion of warrants issued to GE UK under this arrangement.



In accordance with the provisions of the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules of the Financial Conduct Authority, the Company confirms its issued ordinary share capital comprises 93,433,685 Ordinary Shares of £0.0001 each. All of the Ordinary Shares have equal voting rights and none of the Ordinary Shares are held in Treasury. The above figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations to determine if they are required to notify their interests i

The discovery of the Serenity oilfield, a potentially very large oil resource, is a transformational event for i3 Energy
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Anybody going to Oil Capital Conference?

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