company highlights9 Sep 2010 10:05
-Average production in H1 2010 of c 1,015 bopd (net) - Company producing from a fraction of the reserve base
-3rd largest 2P reserves among AIM-listed Oil & Gas companies
-2P reserves of 147.1 million BOE* against market cap of just c £24 million - trading at £0.16 / $0.24 per 2P BOE
-Next well to be drilled and tested prior to year end
-target 9000 bopd by end of 2012
-13 wells drilled + 1 well re-entry + 2 3D seismic acquisition programmes + construction of facilities
-Designed to be self-funding using increasing cash flow from drilling successes
-Most aggressive Plan in the Company’s history announced in March 2010
-Increase production by c 8,250 bopd² (current: c 1,015 bopd)
-Increase P1 reserves by c 200 million BOE (current: 60.8 million BOE)
2010:
2 wells drilled - 1st well (Rio Verde 2) unsuccessful; 2nd well (Tilodiran 4) to be drilled prior to year end
Now focused on development of relatively low-risk, producing, cash generative Tilodiran field within Rio
Verde contract, Colombia
Previous Tilodiran field well tests (approx): 860 bopd (Tilodiran 2) and 1,280 bopd (Tilodiran 3)
2011:
3 wells drilled
Activity expanded to include 1st well on Block 95 contract, Peru in addition to Rio Verde contract drilling
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1 Bretaña 1-X well drilled in 1974 on Block 95 contract area - tested at 807 bopd (18 degrees API gravity)
2012:
8 wells drilled + 1 re-entry
Final year of Plan moves to long-held Colombian contracts, Bolivar and Bocachico
(Catalina & Torcaz fields)
The two most reserve rich of the Company’s contracts and more complex geology