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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
13 July 2023
Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc / Index: LSE / Epic: PRD / Sector: Oil & Gas
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Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc
("Predator" or the "Company" and together with its subsidiaries the "Group")
MOU-4 update with results of NuTech petrophysical analysis
Highlights
· 64 metres of likely gas sands interpreted by NuTech in MOU-4
· Likely gas reservoir at top of Jurassic carbonate target
· Rigless testing programme will now include the Jurassic
· Significant Jurassic gas potential if rigless testing is successful
Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc (LSE: PRD), the Jersey based Oil and Gas Company with near-term gas operations focussed on Morocco, is pleased to announce an update for the MOU-4 well.
NuTech wireline log analysis and reservoir characterisation of the MOU-4 well has highlighted the following intervals to be likely gas sands that will form the primary objectives in a rigless testing programme.
519 to 713 metres TVD MD, including the M1 sands.
50 metres of likely gas sands.
778 to 879 metres TVD MD, including the Moulouya fan and Lower Fan.
12 metres of likely gas sands.
1139 to 1143 metres TVD MD, including the top of the Jurassic carbonates.
2 metres of likely gas reservoir with average porosity 19.9% (maximum 20.6%) and average gas saturation 56% (maximum 73%).
As previously announced the culmination of the Jurassic carbonate target lies 2.6 kilometres to the southeast of the MOU-4 well location and significantly higher than at the MOU-4 well location. Therefore a positive rigless testing result in this zone would help to de-risk the larger Jurassic structural closure in respect of reservoir development and migration of gas. These were two of the most significant pre-drill exploration risks.
Paul Griffiths, Executive Chairman of Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc commented:
"The MOU-4 NuTech petrophysical analysis has has highlighted a number of intervals to be likely gas sands, including some shallow sands that were not previously considered to be potential drilling targets.
The recognition by NuTech of likely good quality thin gas reservoirs at the top of the Jurassic carbonate is particularly significant in the context of the large Jurassic structural closure that MOU-4 was purposely located at the edge of, so as to successfully penetrate the primary pre-drill target which was the Moulouya Fan.
Rigless testing of the Jurassic interval will be an important step in evaluating the significant Jurassic potential within our core area of interest."
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For more information please visit the Company's website at www.predatoroilandgas.com:
Enquiries:
Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc Paul Griffiths Executive Chairman Lonny Baumgardner Managing Director | Tel: +44 (0) 1534 834 600 Info@predatoroilandgas.com |
Novum Securities Limited David Coffman / Jon Belliss
Fox-Davies Capital Jerry Keen
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Tel: +44 (0)207 399 9425
Tel +44 (0)203 884 7447 jerry@fox-davies.com
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Flagstaff Strategic and Investor Communications Tim Thompson Mark Edwards Fergus Mellon
| Tel: +44 (0)207 129 1474 predator@flagstaffcomms.com |
Notes to Editors:
Predator is operator of the Guercif Petroleum Agreement onshore Morocco which is prospective for Tertiary gas less than 10 kilometres from the Maghreb gas pipeline. The MOU-1 well drilled in 2021 is being prepared for a follow-up testing programme to coordinate with a further drilling programme to move the project to a CNG development stage.
Predator is seeking to further develop the remaining oil reserves of Trinidad's mature onshore oil fields through the application of CO2 EOR techniques and by sequestrating anthropogenic carbon dioxide.
Predator owns and operates exploration and appraisal assets in licensing options offshore Ireland, for which successor authorisations have been applied for, adjoining Vermilion's Corrib gas field in the Slyne Basin on the Atlantic Margin and east of the decommissioned Kinsale gas field in the Celtic Sea.
Predator has developed a Floating Storage and Regasification Project ("FSRUP") for the import of LNG and its regassification for Ireland and is also developing gas storage concepts to address security of gas supply and volatility in gas prices during times of peak gas demand.
The Company has a highly experienced management team with a proven track record in operations in the oil and gas industry.