RNS #2 placing12 Mar 2019 07:32
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RNS Number : 5241S
Prospex Oil and Gas PLC
12 March 2019
Prospex Oil and Gas Plc / Index: AIM / Epic: PXOG / Sector: Oil and Gas
12 March 2019
Prospex Oil and Gas Plc ('Prospex' or the 'Company')
Placing to Raise GBP800,000 and Appointment of Joint Broker
Prospex Oil and Gas Plc, the AIM quoted investment company, is pleased to announce that it has raised GBP800,000 gross via an oversubscribed placing of 400,000,000 new ordinary shares of GBP0.001 each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") (the "Placing Shares") at a price of 0.2 pence per Placing Share (the "Placing Price") (the "Placing"). The Placing was undertaken with new and existing investors.
The net proceeds of the Placing will help fund the Company's share of the 2019 work programme at the Suceava Concession ('Suceava') in North East Romania. Following the Enlargement of Suceava, as announced separately today, the partners plan to drill the Bainet West prospect ('Bainet West') subject to customary permitting. Bainet West is a lookalike prospect to the Bainet discovery which was successfully drilled in 2017 and is currently on production.
Bainet West is well defined on seismic with similar seismic attributes to the Bainet gas field, lying at a comparable depth and is similarly positioned in relation to a fault. If a future discovery was made at Bainet West it would be likely put on production in a congruent fashion to Bainet. Assuming corresponding gross costs of EUR800,000 (EUR400,000 net to Prospex) to complete Bainet-1 as a production well, the funds raised today will more than cover Prospex's share of costs. Prospex's wholly-owned subsidiary PXOG Massey Limited holds a 50% non-operated interest in the now enlarged 984 sq km concession. Bainet West is one of several low cost / low risk exploration and development opportunities that have been identified at Suceava.
Prospex Non-executive Chairman, Bill Smith, said, "We are pleased to have raised these funds for new drilling activity in Romania and thank all existing stakeholders and new investors for their support. Having participated in two successful wells in Romania and Italy in the last 18 months, we are keen to participate in drilling activity again and Bainet West represents an excellent opportunity for the partners to do just that. Based on our experience with the Bainet field - with a less than a year cycle between drilling and production start-up and, subject to a successful outcome, Bainet West has the potential to be brought into production within a similar timeframe. This is fast by industry standards and demonstrates the value of the Suceava Concession, where the presence of multiple copycat structures offers a low risk opportunity to build a cash generative project for relatively low capital outlay.
"Together with our interest in the Podere Gallina licence located onshore Italy, where first production at the 13.3bcf Selva gas field