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BNG Contract Area Early Licence Renewal

27 Oct 2017 07:00

RNS Number : 7739U
Caspian Sunrise plc
27 October 2017
 

Caspian Sunrise PLC ("Caspian Sunrise" or the "Company")

 

BNG Contract Area Early Licence Renewal

 

Introduction

 

Caspian Sunrise PLC (AIM:CASP) ("Caspian Sunrise"), the Central Asian oil and gas company, with a focus on Kazakhstan, is pleased to update the market with news of the extension of its licence at its flagship BNG Contract Area.

 

BNG licence renewal

 

Caspian Sunrise has a 99% interest in the BNG Contract Area, which is located in the west of Kazakhstan, 40 kilometers southeast of Tengiz, on the edge of the Mangistau Oblast.

 

As previously announced the licence at the BNG Contract Area is due for renewal in June 2018, when it was expected the Company would apply for a 29-year full production licence to cover the whole BNG Contract Area.

 

The principal benefit from moving to a full production licence will be the ability to sell the majority of oil produced based on world prices rather than the domestic prices permitted under an appraisal licence (currently typically $16-$20 per barrel).

 

A drawback is that a condition of such a licence upgrade may have been the need to curtail some of the planned exploration and development activities especially at our deeper prospects. This stems predominantly from the need to have explored regions and structures during the appraisal period of a licence to allow unrestricted further development during the full production phase.

 

Caspian Sunrise is therefore delighted to announce its early agreement with the Kazakh regulatory authorities to extend the whole of its licence at BNG on an appraisal basis for a further six years effective from June 2018 with the opportunity from that date to apply to convert individual structures to full production status at the Company's timing.

 

The ability to elect the timing of when to apply for different structures to move to full production status will allow the Company to manage the move from appraisal to production on a structure by structure basis rather than for the Contract Area as a whole.

 

This marks a very positive outcome as it should be possible for instance for the Company to operate its highly successful and well developed MJF structure on a full production licence basis while continuing to explore other shallow and deep prospects.

 

For example the shallow MJF Structure already has 5 producing wells with a sixth well nearing its total depth. In comparison, the potential shallow New Structure has only one well drilled and to date this has not shown it can produce at commercial rates but given more time and work may do so.

 

Of greatest importance however is the benefit for the deeper prospects to be explored more fully before moving to full production status. For example the Deep Airshagyl Structure, with A5 & A6 already drilled and A8 due for spudding in Q4 2017, and where we have more information on likely structure boundaries, is likely to be suitable for a move to full production status before the deep Yelemes Structure on which only Deep Well 801 has been drilled to date with Deep Well 802 is planned for H1 2018.

 

Another consequence of this better phasing will be that, if the Company so choses, even its deep drilling could be funded by the pre-sale of oil from the BNG Contract Area making any large scale equity fund-raising entirely discretionary.

 

The first opportunity to apply for a structure to be licenced on a full production basis remains June 2018.

 

In summary, the early agreement on the terms of the licence allows the Company's management to better plan for the maximisation of the returns from the BNG Contract Area and lessens the need to seek external large scale equity funding for our planned deep drilling programme.

 

Clive Carver, Executive Chairman of Caspian Sunrise, commented:

 

The flexibility afforded to the Company by the early agreement with the Kazakh authorities on the extension of the licence for the BNG Contract Area should materially improve the returns to current shareholders as the funding of our near term deep wells should now be within the Company's control from the pre-sales of oil without the need for dilutive equity issues.

 

 

Ends

 

Enquiries:

 

Caspian Sunrise PLC

Clive Carver

Executive Chairman

+7 727 375 0202

WH Ireland, Nominated Adviser & Broker

James Joyce

James Bavister

+44 (0) 207 220 1666

Yellow Jersey PR

Tim Thompson

+44 (0) 203 735 8825

 

 

 

Qualified Person

Mr. Nurlybek Ospanov, Caspian Sunrise PLC's Chief Geologist / Technical Director who is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers ("SPE"), has reviewed and approved the technical disclosures in this announcement.

 

This announcement has been posted to:

www.caspiansunrise.com/investors

 

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information under the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014.

 

 

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