RE: IRELAND (The real BIG One)5 May 2020 11:19
RNS Number : 7569E
Predator Oil & Gas Holdings PLC
08 July 2019
Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc
("Predator" or the "Company" and together with its subsidiaries "the Group")
Irish Offshore Operators' Association Statement
Implications for Indigenous Gas at Ram Head, Celtic Sea, Ireland
Highlights
· Pragmatic approach to indigenous gas exploration and development
· Discovered gas at Ram Head is a good fit with current strategic objectives
· Mid to Best Estimate net Prospective Gas Resources of 508 to 1,370 BCF
· Well-placed with respect to gas infrastructure
Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc (PRD), the Jersey-based Oil and Gas Company, has responsibly reflected upon the statement made by the Irish Offshore Operators' Association ('IOOA') on 5 July 2019 regarding the decision by the Government of Ireland not to proceed with the Climate Emergency Bill. The full text of the statement can be found using the following link https://www.iooa.ie/government-takes-important-step-to-ensure-energy-security/
Background
Predator's management, who have 20 years' experience exploring for, appraising and producing gas offshore Ireland, has been advocating the case for indigenous gas development since 2016 focussing on four critical issues:
· Security of Energy Supply in an increasingly volatile Brexit landscape
· Transition to a lower-carbon economy by pragmatic means using indigenous gas, which has a lower carbon footprint, to replace imported coal
· Maintaining the potential for tax revenues from gas developments to support the investment needed in expanding renewable energy
· Ensuring energy remains affordable and accessible to all
Predator remains fully committed to Ireland and is encouraged by the pragmatic approach now being adopted.
Predator C02 Footprint Strategy
Predator only operates and works closely with environmental agencies and regulators in countries where there is a commitment to reducing CO2 emissions.
In this respect the Company is focussed on exploring for gas in Morocco, which has a high dependency on coal for electricity generation, and Trinidad, where the Company is addressing the potential for C02 sequestration as part of our near-term programme of operations. CO2 from Trinidad's ammonia plants is currently vented into the atmosphere.
Recent Ram Head Competent Person's Report ("CPR")
With this new political development our focus on the gas discovered in 1984 by Marathon, 40 kilometres east of the Kinsale platforms at Ram Head in the Celtic Sea, becomes of even greater significance. Unlike the majority of new gas opportunities around Ireland the Ram Head gas has already been discovered and is now a strategic fit with stated energy policy.
Mid and Best Estimates Prospective Gas Resources net to the Company