UK Offshore Licence Update - P2478

RNS Number : 2304L

Upland Resources Limited

29 April 2020

 

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29 April 2020

UPLAND RESOURCES LIMITED

("Upland" or the "Company")

UK Offshore Licence Update - P2478

Upland Resources Limited (LSE: UPL), the oil and gas company actively building a portfolio of attractive upstream assets, announces that, with partners, its wholly-owned subsidiary Upland Resources (UK Onshore) Limited ("Upland UK") has signed a Work Sharing and Confidentiality Agreement with a large International E&P Company ("Interested Party") for licence P2478 in the Inner Moray Firth. Under the terms of the agreement the Joint Venture Partners (Corallian Energy Limited, Baron Oil Plc and Upland UK) have agreed to cease marketing a joint farmout to industry until 30 September 2020 during which period the Interested Party will complete its own regional technical work and share its data and interpretations over the area with the P2478 Joint Venture Partners ("Exclusivity Period").

The operator Corallian Energy Limited will continue to provide data to the Interested Party under the confidentiality arrangements. By mutual agreement the Joint Venture Partners may extend the Exclusivity Period with the Interested Party until 31 December 2020 should such Party wish to negotiate farmin terms to earn an interest in the licence.

During the Exclusivity Period Upland UK will incur no further expenditure in respect of P2478.

The P2478 licence contains the Dunrobin prospect. The prospect consists of three large shallow Jurassic rotated fault blocks that are mapped mostly on 3D seismic data within a single culmination with Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators. Reservoir targets are the Jurassic Beatrice and Dunrobin sandstones, overlain by a thick Kimmeridge Clay to seabed. The prospect is approximately 30km offshore with a water depth of approximately 75m.

The Dunrobin structure covers an area of approximately 40km2 and the prospect has non SPE-PRMS compliant Pmean prospective resources of 174 mmboe, with potential for 396 mmboe (P10) as assessed by Corallian.

Chris Pitman, CEO of Upland Resources Limited, said:

"A farm-down to a significant industry partner that can bring regional expertise and work programme funding to de-risk and evaluate the P2478 licence is entirely consistent with our strategy.  This exclusive option agreement represents the first step in this process."

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 on market abuse

For further information, please contact:

Upland Resources Limited Christopher Pitman, CEO	www.uplandres.com Tel: [phone]
	[e-mail]
Optiva Securities Limited	www.optivasecurities.com
Jeremy King (Corporate Finance)	Tel: [phone] [e-mail]
Christian Dennis (Corporate Broker)	Tel: [phone]   [e-mail]
FTI Consulting
Ben Brewerton	Tel: [phone] [e-mail]
Christopher Laing	Tel: [phone] ch ristopher.laing @fticonsulting.com
Flowcomms Ltd
Sasha Sethi	Tel: [phone] [e-mail]

Notes

Upland Resources Limited is an upstream oil and gas company whose highly experienced management team has a track record of creating major value for both privately and publicly owned entrepreneurial oil companies (Surestream Petroleum and Zarara Energy) and international service companies (Petroleum Geo-Services and Schlumberger).

 

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