New article13 Dec 2018 09:46
ROSE – Updated profile – Cantor Fitzgerald calculates the risked net asset valuation for Rose at 125p per share
December 13, 2018
By Upcoming Drills
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Rose Petroleum plc (Symbol: ROSE) is an AIM listed oil and gas company focused on the exploration and development of approximately 80,000 acres in the Paradox Basin, Utah, U.S.A., where it is earning into a 75% working interest.
The Paradox acreage constitutes a project of considerable scale and prospectivity. According to the resource report prepared by Ryder Scott Company in 2014, there are potential resources of 1.1 billion barrels of oil and 2.2 trillion cubic feet of gas on the acreage. A Competent Person’s Report by Gaffney Cline & Associates (published June 2018) on the acreage covered by the recently completed 3D seismic acquisition (approximately 17,250 acres of the total circa. 80,000 acres held) and focused solely on the single Cane Creek reservoir (Clastic 21) of the multiple prospective reservoirs within the Paradox Formation has now determined gross contingent resources (2C) of 15.61 million barrels of oil and 31.23 billion cubic feet of gas with a NPV net to Rose of $122.4 million.
Rose has identified approximately 60 potential well locations on both its existing and new acreage within the area covered by the 3D seismic survey that was completed in 2017. As stated above, this area contains contingent resources (2C) of 20.8 million barrels of oil equivalent in the Clastic 21 reservoir alone. The Paradox Basin formation is made up of approximately 24 clastic zones, of which Clastic 21 is the primary producing zone of the basin to date. Additional potential clastic reservoir zones also exist, both above and below the Clastic 21. These were also assessed as prospective in the Competent Persons Report and add further potential both within the 3D seismic covered area (which represents only 15,000 acres – or 17,250 “held at surface” – of the 80,000 acres over which Rose has a working interest) and the area outside, providing the opportunity to significantly increase resource numbers on the Paradox project in the future.
Rose has assembled a highly experienced subsurface and surface operational team with extensive experience and a successful track record in the Paradox Basin. The team designed, managed and implemented a nine-well drilling programme in the Paradox Basin directly to the south of Rose’s acreage. Eight of these wells were commercial and production grew from circa 100 barrels of oil per day (“BOPD”) to over 3,500 BOPD.
The operational team has now largely completed the subsurface assessment, well location selection and basic well design and engineering for Rose’s first proposed horizontal well, the GV 22-1, within the Company’s Paradox acreage.
On 1 November Rose announced that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) had approved the Application for Permit to Drill for the GV 22-1 well. The APD is valid for an initial two years.