RE: RNS21 Feb 2023 07:07
Stephen Sanderson UKOG's Chief executive commented:
"The CPR confirms that Loxley, one of the UK's largest onshore gas discoveries, possesses material present value in today's prevailing higher gas price world. Its potential future revenue streams have the capacity to deliver material shareholder value in the foreseeable future and its recoverable resources to contribute towards the UK's future energy security.
Loxley's illustrated potential commercial robustness also means that UKOG can now plan to fund a future development via normal conventional oil and gas debt funding. The option of a farmout, where UKOG's costs are carried by a new partner, remains a further viable funding option. Our focus will, therefore, now be on implementing the necessary steps to deliver the planned Loxley-1 appraisal programme during 2024 and, if successful, gas production and sales targeted from 2026.
I'd also like to reiterate, that we also still plan to sell future Loxley gas for reforming into low-carbon blue hydrogen, entirely in accord with the low carbon ethos underpinning our proposed Portland hydrogen hub project. Once Loxley is depleted of natural gas by around 2036, we are also investigating its use to store around 1 billion cubic metres of hydrogen, a further addition to the Company's and UK's much-needed future energy storage portfolio."