RE: NAV £36.1m19 Feb 2023 12:24
23 June 2020 RNS
A June 2020 report prepared by Xodus Group Ltd ("Xodus") for AME calculates that two identified geological targets within the Licence's Cretaceous Mardin limestones, the undeveloped Basur oil discovery and the Resan "missed" oil pay opportunity contain an aggregate unrisked gross mean oil in place, or oil in the ground before extraction ("OIP"), of approximately 253 million barrels ("mmbbl"), with a significant high case (P10) gross aggregate OIP of 495 mmbbl.
The Company's and AME's evaluations of the available 1950s and 1960s well and geological data conclude that potentially significant moveable oil within the naturally fractured Mardin has been overlooked by prior operators in both Basur and Resan (i.e. missed oil pay).
An undrilled exploration target in the shallower Garzan limestones, Prospect A, adds further unrisked upside OIP potential of between 68-112 mmbbl in the mean and high case (P10), respectively.
Note that UKOG's internal evaluation sees further upside resource potential than is currently identified by Xodus.
The Basur discovery, made in 1964, whose primary target was the shallow Cretaceous age Garzan reefal limestones, recovered 600 bbl of oil to surface from deeper naturally-fractured and dolomitised Cretaceous Mardin limestones. Core and cuttings contained live oil. Of the oil to surface, 500 bbl were produced over a 6-hour test period, equating to an extrapolated rate of 2,000 barrels of oil per day ("bopd").
Monetising a successful oil well in Turkey is therefore potentially rapid and largely in the control of the operator, as the completed well can be put on long-term production directly from a flow test and well completion. Permanent production can therefore be accomplished as soon as practicable, taking months rather than the 3-5 years it takes in the UK onshore.
Drilling costs are also forecast to be significantly lower than for a comparable well in the UK. AME's cost estimates for a 1500 m depth well in the Licence are around $3 million gross. ($1.5m net to uKOG) The equivalent well in the UK would cost the Company £5-6+ million gross.
11th jan 2023
Further to the analysis of the Q3 2022 Phase 2 Seismic Programme UK Oil & Gas PLC (London AIM: UKOG) is pleased to announce that the Resan JV (UKOG 50% working interest) has identified and plans to drill in Q1 2023, a new potential shallow oil accumulation, Pinarova, of some 9 km² areal extent, located 6 km north of the Basur-1 oil discovery
Pinarova-1 will, therefore, be designed to test if light oil is present in commercially viable saturations and quantities within the Hoya and, if successful, will be completed as a pumped oil production well. If successful, Pinarova-1 would likely be followed by a Pinarova-2 well and/or a Basur-4 appraisal well drilled from a new site west of Basur-1
The Company and its joint partner Aladdin Middle East ("AME") consider Pinarova to offer similar potential success case outcomes to a Basur
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