18 Feb 2008 09:00
BowLeven Plc18 February 2008 18 February 2008 Bowleven plc ('Bowleven' or 'the Company') Interim Results Announcement Date Bowleven plc will announce its Interim results for the six months ending 31 December 2007 on Friday 28 March 2008. ENQUIRIES For further information please contact: Bowleven plcKerry Crawford, Head of Investor Relations 00 44 131 524 5678Brunswick Group LLPPatrick Handley 00 44 207 404 5959Deborah Spencer Hoare Govett Limited 00 44 207 678 8000Andrew Foster Notes to the Editor: Bowleven is an African focussed oil and gas group, based in Edinburgh and listedon AIM since December 2004. Bowleven holds, through its wholly-owned subsidiary EurOil Limited, a 100%equity interest in the Etinde Permit area being three shallow water blocks inoffshore Cameroon, West Africa; namely Blocks MLHP 5, MLHP 6 and MLHP 7. Intotal BowLeven has approximately 2,300 km2 of exploration acreage located acrossthe Rio del Rey and Douala basins in the Etinde Permit. EurOil Limited has alsorecently been awarded a new licence (the Bomono Permit) in onshore Cameroonextending to approximately 2,328 km2 in the Douala/Kribi Campo Basin. Bowlevenhas operated in Cameroon since 1999. The Cameroon Government has announced a cooperation agreement with theGovernment of Equatorial Guinea to investigate a project to export gas fromCameroon to the gas liquefaction plant on Bioko Island on Equatorial Guinea. Itis proposed that Limbe would be the gathering hub for any such scheme. Bowleven also holds, through its wholly-owned subsidiary FirstAfrica Oil, a 100%equity interest in the EOV offshore block in Gabon, which contains an existingoil discovery that it is seeking to develop, and, a 50% equity interest in theEpaemeno Block which is approximately 1,340 km2 of exploration acreage inonshore Gabon which sits adjacent to a number of recent discoveries insurrounding blocks. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange