SLB Options

RNS Number : 0088I

Block Energy PLC

30 November 2022

 

30 November 2022

Block Energy plc

("Block" or the "Company")

SLB Options

Block Energy plc, the exploration and production company focused on Georgia, announces that SLB (formerly Schlumberger), has notified the Company of its decision to not exercise its right to acquire 108 million ordinary shares in Block Energy plc.

A total of 120 million options were granted in 2020, as consideration for the acquisition of the Schlumberger Rustaveli Company Limited ("SRCL"), which held Georgia's most productive license, Block XIB.  Of these, 12 million options have been assigned by SLB to Jindal Petroleum and expire November 30^th 2023.

The acquisition of SRCL provided Block with additional production, material additional oil reserves, significant gas resources, oil inventory, materials, and a US$133m cost recovery pool while preserving its cash position for further growth.

Commenting, Paul Haywood, Chief Executive Officer of Block Energy plc's, said:

"This is very good news for the Company and shareholders in Block. The result for Block and its shareholders is a significant gain in value and reduction in dilution, both contributing to our continued commitment to maximising value, for all shareholders, whilst we advance through our 3-project strategy."

¹ RNS notification of 26 March 2020 headed "Major acquisition of two adjacent blocks from Schlumberger"

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THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION AS STIPULATED UNDER THE UK VERSION OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION NO 596/2014 WHICH IS PART OF ENGLISH LAW BY VIRTUE OF THE EUROPEAN (WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018, AS AMENDED.  ON PUBLICATION OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT VIA A REGULATORY INFORMATION SERVICE, THIS INFORMATION IS CONSIDERED TO BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

For further information please visit  http://www.blockenergy.co.uk/  or contact:

Paul Haywood (Chief Executive Officer)	Block Energy plc	Tel: [phone]
Neil Baldwin (Nominated Adviser)	Spark Advisory Partners Limited	Tel: [phone]
Peter Krens (Corporate Broker)	Tennyson Securities	Tel: [phone]
P hilip Dennis / M ark Antelme (Financial PR)	C elicourt Communications	Tel: [phone]

Notes to editors

Block Energy plc is an AIM-listed independent oil and gas company focused on production and development in Georgia, applying innovative technology to realise the full potential of previously discovered fields.

Block has a 100% working interest in Georgian onshore licence blocks IX and XI^B. Licence block XI^B is Georgia's most productive block, where during the mid-1980s production peaked at 67,000 bopd and cumulative production reached 100 MMbbls and 80 MMbbls of oil from the Patardzeuli and Samgori fields, respectively. The remaining 2P reserves across block XI^B are 64 MMboe, comprising 2P oil reserves of 36 MMbbls and 2P gas reserves of 28 MMboe. (Source: CPR Bayphase Limited: 1 July 2015). Additionally, following an internal technical study designed to evaluate and quantify the undrained oil potential of the Middle Eocene within the Patardzeuli field, the Company has defined gross unrisked 2C contingent resources of 200 MMbbls of oil.

The Company has a 100% working interest in the West Rustavi onshore oil and gas field with multiple wells that have tested oil and gas from a range of geological horizons. The field has so far produced over 75 Mbbls of light sweet crude and has 0.9 MMbbls of gross 2P oil reserves in the Middle Eocene. It also has 38 MMbbls of gross unrisked 2C contingent resources of oil and 608 Bcf of gross unrisked 2C contingent resources of gas in the Middle, Upper and Lower Eocene formations (Source: CPR Gustavson Associates: 1 January 2018).

Block also holds 100% and 90% working interests respectively in the onshore oil producing Norio and Satskhenisi fields.

The Company offers a clear entry point for investors to gain exposure to Georgia's growing economy and the strong regional demand for oil and gas.

Glossary

1.  bbls: barrels. A barrel is 35 imperial gallons.

2.  Bcf: billion cubic feet.

3.  boe: barrels of oil equivalent.

4.  bopd: barrels of oil per day.

5.  Mbbls: thousand barrels.

6.  MMbbls: million barrels.

7.  MMboe: million barrels of oil equivalent.

 

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