RNS Out16 Jul 2021 08:04
Pantheon Resources plc
Management Resource Upgrade - Shelf Margin Deltaic & Upcoming Webinar Details
Pantheon Resources plc ("Pantheon" or the "Company"), the AIM-quoted oil and gas Company with a 100% working interest in projects spanning c.160,000 acres, covered by 1,000 square miles of 3D seismic, advantageously located adjacent to transportation and pipeline infrastructure on the Alaska North Slope, is pleased to provide the following management resource upgrade on its Shelf Margin Deltaic ("SMD") sequence as well as to provide details of an upcoming investor webinar.
Resource Upgrade - Shelf Margin Deltaic
Pantheon is pleased to report that it has now completed its internal analysis of the SMD-B sequence encountered in the Talitha #A well. The SMD is the shallowest of five discrete oil bearing intervals encountered in that well. The SMD interval itself is comprised of three individual components: the SMD-A, the SMD-B and the SMD-C. The excellent quality data obtained in Talitha #A has allowed Pantheon to integrate well log response and core data with seismic petrophysics to more accurately map this interval.
Pantheon has completed its analysis of the SMD-B zone, one of the three zones within the SMD, and estimates that this zone has the potential to contain 2.6 billion barrels oil in place ("OIP") and a P50 Contingent Resource (recoverable) of 404 million barrels oil ("mmbo"). The Company's previous management estimate for the SMD was an OIP of 1.8 billion barrels and a P50 Prospective Resource of 483 mmbo across all three of its zones combined, of which approximately 265 mmbo were attributable to the SMD-B zone; being the zone subject to today's resource upgrade.
Analysis is not yet complete on the SMD-A and SMD-C zones, although as previously reported it is anticipated that the SMD-A will experience a reduction, whereas the SMD-C is broadly in line with previous analysis. When considered as a whole, management believe the resource potential of the SMD has been upgraded substantially.
Today's resource upgrade is significant in that it is both (a) materially larger in size, and (b) management believe meets the higher resource classification of 'Contingent Resource', than the previous 'Prospective Resource'. This also compares favourably to the previous Independent Experts estimate in September 2020 of 302 mmbo Prospective Recoverable Resource across all three zones of the SMD.
The geographic location of Pantheon's leases has a significant economic advantage because they can be developed from the Dalton Highway, materially reducing development costs and accelerating the time to first production and revenues. This offers Pantheon a major competitive advantage in expediting development and production compared to other operators on the North Slope of Alaska.
Farmout Discussions
Pantheon confirms that discussions have commenced with a number of groups for the purpose of seeking the farmout of a workin