Award of the New Acreage Soon?21 Apr 2023 12:02
On 10th Nov 2022 88e was announced as the highest bidder on 10 leases covering approximately 25,600 contiguous acres immediately south of Prudhoe Bay.
On the same date, in a PANR RNS: “Pantheon is pleased to announce the successful acquisition of approximately 40,000 acres in the State of Alaska's North Slope Areawide Lease sale.”
Yesterday an 88e RNS: “…pleased to report that the Alaskan Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Oil and Gas Division, has completed its adjudication process and formally issued award notices to Captivate Energy Alaska, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company) covering the entire Project Leonis (the Project) lease area.”
So then, it could be soon, that PANR gets its completion and are able to add their successful Nov 2022 40,000 acre bid to their current ~ 153,000 acres.
That will give them a ~26% acreage increase and one would hope, a proportionate ~26% increase in the OIP figures
– well, they didn’t bid on it for the scenic views and with the 3d seismic they have, they should have had a pretty good idea as to what’s down there. And one would have hoped, that enabled some “cherry picking” of these 40,000 acres -
If so, that would take the Company resource estimates of 23 billion barrels of oil in place ("OIP") and 2.3 billion barrels of recoverable resource, to an OIP of ~28.98billion barrels with the possibility of the recoverable resource moving up to ~2.9billion barrels.
And that would mean, on the current ~788million shares, ~3.68 barrels recoverable per share.
And that’s all based on just a 10% oil recovery rate.
IMHO DYOR.