Not All Doom & Gloom17 Apr 2021 10:51
The company reported a gross loss of £1.63m for the 12 months to September 2020, compared with a gross profit for the same period in 2019 of £0.12m.
The operating loss was £14.05m for 2020, compared with a £4.788m loss in 2019.
Revenue from oil production at Horse Hill and Horndean rose to £0.91m, from £0.21m in 2019. But depletion, depreciation and amortisation saw a big rise to £1,37m (2019 £0.225m).
The company wrote down £17.25m of historic investments, mainly at Horse Hill and the exploration licence PEDL143, which UKOG relinquished in 2020.
He said Horse Hill production was forecast to be profitable and by the end of February 2021, it had produced 137,000 barrels of oil from the Kimmeridge and Portland oil pools.
But he said UKOG’s Weald Basin assets, though some of the best in the UK onshore, “simply do not offer the same step-change growth potential we aspire to and, due to the increasing regulatory burden, take far too long to monetise.”