RE: would prefer3 Feb 2019 15:21
From 2017 prelims
Of more significance to your Company is the recent re-affirmation of the prospectivity and long term
future of the Southern North Sea gas basin and its strategic importance to the UK. Of special note is
the recent acquisition of the Breagh asset, which is adjacent to our licences, by Oranje-Nassau Energie,
the spudding of a deep Carboniferous exploration well on the Ravenspurn gas field by BP and
Centrica’s renewed interest in exploration evidenced by the award of a tranche of blocks immediately
to the North of our existing licences in the recently announced 29th Offshore Licencing Round.
This increased positivity towards the Southern Gas Basin has also manifested itself in the significant
level of interest and traffic through our dataroom which was formally opened in January to facilitate
the farm-out of our existing portfolio of high quality exploration assets. Of relevance to this process I
am pleased to reaffirm the announcement in October 2016 of an independent technical audit and CPR
and further technical work announced in December 2016, which has resulted in a tripling of the P50
prospective resources contained within this portfolio to approximately 2.4 trillion cubic feet of gas.