Exercise of Options / PDMR Dealing

RNS Number : 8670A

Block Energy PLC

04 June 2021

 

4 June 2021

Block Energy plc

("Block" or the "Company")

Exercise of Options / PDMR Dealing

Block Energy plc, the development and production company focused on Georgia, announces that a director, William McAvock, and an employee have exercised nil-cost options ("Options") to acquire 2,685,812 and 1,622,531 ordinary shares of 0.25 pence each respectively.

The Options had been granted as a result of the Company's salary and fees sacrifice scheme that was announced on 7 April 2020, whereby directors and employees of the Company agreed to receive 40 per cent of their salaries/fees in nil-cost options in lieu of cash and the Company's performance-related cash bonus scheme, whereby bonuses payable in February 2021 were paid in nil-cost options in lieu of cash.

4,308,343 of the shares held in the Block Energy plc Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT") will be used to satisfy the exercise. Following the exercise of the Options, the remaining number of shares held by the EBT will be 24,268,478, representing 3.89 per cent of the current total issued share capital.

Following the exercise, Mr McAvock holds 3,339,329 shares in the Company, representing 0.53 per cent of the Company's issued share capital.

**ENDS**

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]
Billy Clegg / Owen Roberts / Violet Wilson (Financial PR)	Camarco	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, with 2P oil and gas reserves of 64 MMboe, which is comprised 2P oil reserves of 36 MMbbls and 2P gas reserves of 28 MMboe (Source: CPR Bayphase Limited: 1 July 2015)and historic production of over 180 MMbbls of oil from the Middle Eocene, peaking in the mid-1980s at 67,000 bopd.

The Company has a 100% working interest in the highly prospective 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 50 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.  boe: barrels of oil equivalent.

3.  bopd: barrels of oil per day.

4.  Mbbls: thousand barrels.

5.  MMboe: million barrels of oil equivalent.

6.  MMbbls: million barrels.

7.  Bcf: billion cubic feet.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMRs") and persons closely associated ("PCA") with them.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	William McAvock
2	Reason for notification
a)	Position / status	CFO
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Block Energy plc
b)	LEI	213800E2J8QA1J6KN415
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of  the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Options to acquire ordinary shares in Block Energy plc ISIN GB00BF3TBT48
b)	Nature of the transaction	Exercise of options
c)	Price(s) and volumes(s)	Price(s) Volumes(s) 0p 2,685,812
d)	Aggregated information	n/a
e)	Date of the transaction	4 June 2021
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

 

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