30 May 2013
The Company announces that the Interim Management Statement announcement
released at 10:37am on Friday 17 May 2013 under reference PRNUK-1705131036-6F91
contained incorrect information regarding the size of the shale gas position in
the Lviv Basin. The correct size of the position is 3,800 sq. km.
All other information in the announcement was correct. A copy of the full
amended announcement is below:
Cadogan Petroleum plc ("Cadogan" or "the Group")
Interim Management Statement for the period from 1 January to 17 May 2013
Introduction
Cadogan published its Annual Financial Report for 2012 on 25 April 2013.
Financial position
At 17 May 2013 the Group had current cash and cash equivalents of approximately
$66.8 million.
Operations
The Group continued to operate safely and efficiently throughout the period.
As outlined in the Annual Report in the Chairman's Statement and Chief
Executive's Review (and as notified on 25 April 2013), in 2012 the Company
overhauled its technical operations and sub surface exploration teams in light
of disappointing results on its Pokrovskoe and Zagoryanska licences. Following
completion of that process we continue to re-focus our operations on those
licences where management believes that new and potentially economically viable
prospects exist.
Rig site preparation to re-enter the Borynya 3 well is almost complete and the
Group's Astro Service rig is expected to be ready on location at the beginning
of June. The gas shows, evident from previous logging and drilling data, are
encouraging albeit further work will be needed to ascertain the commercial
viability of the prospect. On the Monastyretska licence in Western Ukraine,
operations at the Blazhiv 1 well continue to demonstrate positive results.
After an initial period of production at 5 cubic metres per day, the well is
now stabilised at 3.5 cubic metres per day and an evaluation for further
improvement, as well as the re-entry of a further two wells, is ongoing. In Zag
3 an intervention to open the V19 level to production was completed but testing
did not produce gas at a commercial rate. V18 produced gas at a low rate and we
are in the process of evaluating a rig-less chemical wash intervention to
enhance production. Work with our joint venture partner Eni on assessing the
Zagoryanska and Pokrovskoe licences continues. In general our Ukrainian
operations in 2013 are expected to focus on shallow prospects in our western
assets that require less capital intensity than our eastern, deep prospects.
Shale Gas
Studies are ongoing on our 3,800 sq. km position in the Lviv Basin, with the
aim of defining the best area to start the operations for the first exploration
well.
Litigation
As previously announced, Cadogan has reached a settlement with Global Process
Systems LLC ("GPS") by way of an Agreement with GPS for the purchase of two gas
processing plants for the sum of $29.5 million. The completed sale represents a
full and final settlement of all claims and liabilities between the two
parties.
Service Business
Partly in order to remedy what we perceive as a shortage of adequate investment
in technical services in the Ukrainian oil and gas sector, Cadogan has invested
limited resources in oilfield services in Ukraine. This initiative has
generated over US$500,000 gross revenues for the Group in the past 6 months and
we expect this trend to continue and even increase over time. We are currently
assessing a number of alternatives to facilitate accelerated growth in this
developing business area.
Enquiries to:
Cadogan Petroleum Plc +380 44 584 4979
Bertrand des Pallieres
Chief Executive Officer
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe +44 (0) 20 7894 7000
David Porter
Richard Redmayne
Bankside Consultants +44 (0) 207 367 8888
Simon Rothschild
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