RE: RNS26 Oct 2018 08:23
Farm-out of Curlew-A Appraisal Well
Fri, 26th Oct 2018 07:00
RNS Number : 2937F
Reabold Resources PLC
26 October 2018
26 October 2018
Reabold Resources Plc
"Reabold" or "the Company"
Corallian - Farm-out of Curlew-A Appraisal Well
Reabold, the oil and gas investing company, is pleased to announce that Corallian Energy Limited ("Corallian"), in which Reabold has a 32.9% interest, has signed a farm-out agreement with Talon Petroleum (UK) Limited ("Talon"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of ASX-listed Talon Petroleum Limited, for a 10% interest in Licence P2396, which contains the Curlew-A discovery, offshore UK, North Sea.
Pursuant to the terms of the farm-out, Talon will pay 15 per cent. of the drilling cost for an appraisal well at Curlew-A up to a cap of £12.0m and thereafter pro rata to its participating interest. The current estimated well cost, using a Jack-Up rig, is £9.7m.
The appraisal well is currently anticipated to be drilled by Corallian in H2 2019 to test the original 1977 Shell Curlew-A discovery, which encountered 10.5m of net oil sands in the Odin and Cromarty sandstones within a salt-cored anticline and recovered multiple, 36° API light oil samples.
It is anticipated that the Curlew-A appraisal well will be drilled to a depth of approximately 2,700 metres sub-sea in a water depth of approximately 90 metres.
A Competent Person's Report on Curlew-A, completed by Software Information Solutions, Schlumberger Oilfield UK in October 2018 assigned the following gross volumes to the discovery:
Unrisked Oil in Place
Unrisked Contingent Resource Volumes
Mmbo
Oil (mmbo)
Solution Gas (bscf)
Oil Equivalent (mmboe)
Low Estimate - 1C
56.5
15.5
23.9
19.5
Best Estimate - 2C
120.0
36.2
50.9
44.7
High Estimate - 3C
186.8
68.3
79.1
81.5
The intention for the appraisal well is to initially de-risk 44.7 mmboe of Unrisked 2C Contingent Resources before targeting a deeper secondary objective in the deeper Forties Sandstone. The Forties Sandstone was not previously encountered in the original discovery well but is expected to be developed in the southwestern flank of the structure where the appraisal well will be drilled.
Sachin Oza, Co-CEO commented:
"We are delighted that Corallian has participated in another high-value farm-out agreement. This demonstrates the strength of our strategy of investing at a company level as it gives Reabold exposure to a pipeline of new projects.
"Curlew-A is a perfect fit in our growing portfolio of low-risk, high-impact opportunities and we look forward to sharing operational progress from this appraisal program as it is achieved."
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