RE: I'M IN25 Sep 2023 22:46
AREA OFF-1
Challenger Energy has 100% working interest in and is the operator of, the 14,557 km2 AREA-OFF 1 block, offshore Uruguay.
AREA OFF-1 was awarded in June 2020, and formally signed on 25 May 2022. The licence has a 30-year tenure with the first four-year exploration period having commenced on 25 August 2022.
The initial four-year exploration period work commitment (ending September 2026) is to licence and reprocess 2,000 kms of legacy 2D seismic, and undertake two G&G studies.
Given the strong emerging interest in Uruguay, and to facilitate a farm-out, this work program has been expanded and accelerated, with the work largely complete as at June 2023, and with the full program on schedule to be completed in Q3 2023.
As a result of this technical work program, three prospects have been identified from a range of play types. Prospects are seismically-derived, supported/ further de-risked by AVO analysis, and their robustness corroborated by geochemical seabed sampling and satellite seep analysis. These are summarized on the left.
The overall AREA OFF-1 prospect inventory of approximately 2 billion barrels recoverable resource and over 4.9 billion barrels in an upside case