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Pennpetro Energy PLC Farm-In to Saouaf Permit, Tunisia & Share Issuance
Source: UK Regulatory
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Pennpetro Energy PLC
21 July 2022
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Pennpetro Energy PLC
("Pennpetro" or the "Group")
Farm-In to Saouaf Permit, Tunisia and Share Issuance
London, 21 July 2022 - Pennpetro, an independent oil and gas company focusing on development of the Gonzales Oil Field in Texas, USA, today announces that, through its wholly owned subsidiary enterprise, Nobel Petroleum USA Inc ("NPUSA"), the Group has signed a Farmout Agreement ("Agreement") with Upland (Saouaf) Limited ("Upland Saouaf"),an Upland Resources Limited ("Upland") subsidiary, for a farm-in ("Farm-In") to its Saouaf permit area, Tunisia ("Saouaf Permit"), held in joint venture with the Tunisian state oil company, Enterprise Tunisienne d'Activités Pétroliéres ("ETAP"). Pennpetro had earlier announced the signing of a Heads of Terms agreement with Upland on 16 March 2022.
Farm-In
NPUSA will farm-in for an 80% working interest and assume operatorship, subject to ETAP approval. NPUSA and Upland will jointly seek from the Tunisian authorities a one-year extension ("Extension") to the Saouaf Permit to allow sufficient time to undertake the current prospective work programme which expires on 23 December 2022 ("Expiry Date"), consisting of an obligation to acquire 300 km of new 2D seismic data and reprocessing some existing 2D seismic data. Extension negotiations have already been initiated referencing the Hydrocarbon Code of Tunisia.
NPUSA will be appointed as the Operator for the Saouaf Permit and a formal Operating Agreement will be executed. The working interests of NPUSA and Upland Saouaf (interest carried by NPUSA) up to the Expiry Date are as follows:
-- Nobel Petroleum USA, Inc. 80%
-- Upland Saouaf 20%
The Saouaf Permit can, under its priority rights, be converted into an exploration permit at the Expiry Date. In the three years following that Expiry Date, the exploration work programme requires the acquisition of 150 km of 2D seismic and the drilling of one exploration well to reach the M'cherga formation or equivalent to a minimum depth of 1500m.
Upon the conversion to the Exploration Permit, the working interests will be as follows:
-- Nobel Petroleum USA, Inc. 40%
-- ETAP 50%