Message from CEO20 Dec 2017 14:45
United Oil & Gas Plc - Update
Hello Everyone,
Please find attached two announcements that we made this morning:
Oversubscribed placing
This morning, we announced a top-up placing of £1.25 million at a price of 4p. This was completed at virtually no discount to our current share price and is a great result. Since we listed the company on the 31st July, we have doubled the share price, drilled a successful well in Italy and added the high impact Jamaica licence to our portfolio. It is important to finance when we can and not we have to, so it made sense to do a small top-up placing now on the back of this year’s success. This placing of £1.25mil will strengthen the cash position on our balance sheet before year-end and ensure that the company is well financed moving into 2018. The funds raised will be used to advance further farm-in and acquisition opportunities along with contributing to our currently projected work programs.
It was also very pleasing to see the strong demand for our stock, which is a reflection of the company’s performance over the last two years. In addition, we were very well received in the city of London, and the placing was completed in less than a day.
Italian Well Update
This morning we also provided an update on our Italian well, Podere Maiar 1. We are very pleased to be able to announce that the well encountered 41 metres of net pay, with excellent reservoir quality, and encouraging reservoir pressures. This is a fantastic result and we now look forward to the rigless well-testing scheduled for January which will determine production flow rates. The rig has now completed and is currently demobilising to go off site. An update on the well testing results will be made when they become available.
Whilst we’ve had a great year, we are not resting on our laurels and we will continue to look for further opportunities to create value for our shareholders by adding to our existing portfolio.
I’d also like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and New Year and thank you all for your support during 2017. No doubt 2018 will be an equally exciting year for our company.
Regards
Brian Larkin
Chief Executive Officer
United Oil & Gas Plc
Phone: +353 1 905 3557