RNS Placing @ 1.5p9 Mar 2021 07:05
RNS Number : 5554R
Prospex Energy PLC
09 March 2021
Prospex Energy PLC / Index: AIM / Epic: PXEN / Sector: Oil and Gas
Prospex Energy PLC ('Prospex' or the 'Company')
Placing to Raise GBP750,000
Prospex Energy PLC, the AIM quoted investment company focused on European gas and power projects, is pleased to announce that it has raised GBP750,000 gross via a placing of 50,000,000 new ordinary shares of GBP0.001 each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') (the 'Placing Shares') at a price of 1.5 pence per Placing Share (the 'Placing Price') (the 'Placing').
Warrants will also be issued to Placing subscribers, on the basis of one warrant per two Placing Shares subscribed for, with an exercise price of 3p (the 'Warrants'), and a term of two years from Admission. The Placing was undertaken with new and existing investors as well as a Director of the Company who is acquiring Placing Shares with an aggregate value of GBP30,000.
Use of Proceeds
The net proceeds of the Placing will primarily be used to fund planned programmes at the El Romeral integrated gas production and power station operation in southern Spain ('El Romeral'), and the Podere Gallina licence onshore Italy where first gas at the Selva field is expected to commence later in 2021, subject to the granting of a production concession. The balance of the net proceeds will be used for general working capital purposes, including the evaluation of new business opportunities.
El Romeral
As announced on 1 March 2021, the acquisition of El Romeral by Tarba Energia ('Tarba') in which Prospex owns a 49.9% interest in Tarba B shares, completed on 28 February 2021. A proportion of the proceeds raised will go towards supporting operations during the post transition period at El Romeral, which includes three producing wells that supply gas, through its own network, to a 100% project-owned 8.1 MW power station.
In addition, the proceeds will help fund a further evaluation, and permit supporting studies, of already identified opportunities to increase gas production and electricity generation at El Romeral's power plant towards its nameplate capacity from the current 22% level. These opportunities include development locations and very-low risk prospects (where there is a chance of success of over 70%) which have been assigned gross contingent and prospective gas resources of 5Bcf and 90Bcf respectively, as well as the potential to undertake workovers on existing wells to enhance recovery rates. Historically, the power station at El Romeral regularly produced c. 60,000 Mwh per annum when gas was not a limiting factor.
Podere Gallina
With formal technical environmental approval from the Italian Environment Ministry in place, the development of the Selva Malvezzi Gas-Field ('Selva') in northern Italy, in which Prospex holds a 17% interest, is awaiting final sign off by ministerial decree, the issuing of the required INTESA (intergovernmental agreement) and the final grant o