i3 contract with BHGE for Equipment and Service

RNS Number : 1627E

i3 Energy PLC

02 July 2019

 

2 July 2019

i3 Energy plc

("i3" or the "Company")

i3 Energy awards Baker Hughes, a GE Company, Equipment and Service Contracts

i3 Energy plc, an independent oil and gas company with assets and operations in the UK, is pleased to announce that it has awarded Baker Hughes, a GE company ("BHGE"), contracts for its 2019 summer drilling programme on its Liberator and Serenity assets and its 2020 Phase I development of Liberator. BHGE's scope will include directional drilling, drilling fluids, mudlogging, formation evaluation operations and wellheads.

In connection with the award, BHGE has agreed that £3mm of oilfield service ("OFS") and oilfield equipment ("OFE") contract payments will not become payable until such time as i3 has received its first sales revenues from Liberator Phase I.

As part of this transaction, the Company will be issuing to BHGE warrants up to a notional value of £3mm at an exercise price of 56.85p per ordinary share, totalling up to 5,277,045 warrants if fully issued. BHGE can exercise the warrants via cash settlement or in exchange for payments due under OFS or OFE contracts with the Company.

Junior Noteholders will also be offered participation in warrants on these same terms, pro-rata to their ownership of i3 on a fully-diluted basis and also pro-rata to the proportion of warrants fully issued to BHGE, which could total up to 1,566,572 warrants if all 5,277,045 warrants are issued to BHGE.

The above remains subject to final execution between the parties of the relevant contracts.

 Majid Shafiq, CEO of i3 Energy commented:

"We are very pleased to announce that we will be awarding these multi-million dollar oilfield service and equipment contracts to BHGE. We appreciate the confidence BHGE has shown in the quality of the Liberator oilfield in agreeing to receive payments from first oil revenues. This transaction will enable us to maximize the allocation of capital resources and contingency towards our 2019 drilling activities, and we look forward to welcoming BHGE as a partner as we establish a mutually beneficial long-term relationship to unlock the value in our assets."

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CONTACT DETAILS:

i3 Energy plc Majid Shafiq (CEO) / Graham Heath (CFO) c/o Camarco Tel: [phone] WH Ireland Limited (Nomad and Joint Broker) James Joyce, James Sinclair-Ford Tel: [phone] GMP FirstEnergy (Joint Broker) Jonathan Wright Tel: [phone] Canaccord Genuity Limited (Joint Broker) Henry Fitzgerald- O'Connor, James Asensio Tel: [phone] Camarco Jennifer Renwick, James Crothers Tel: [phone]

Notes to Editors: i3 is an oil and gas development company initially focused on the North Sea. The Company's core asset is the Greater Liberator Area, located in Blocks 13/23d and 13/23c, containing 11 MMBO of 2P Reserves, 22 MMBO of 2C Contingent Resources and 47 MMBO of mid-case Prospective Resources. The Greater Liberator Area consists of the Liberator oil field discovered by well 13/23d-8 and the Liberator West extension, both of which i3 hold a 100% working interest in. The Company's strategy is to acquire high quality, low risk producing and development assets, to broaden its portfolio and grow its reserves and production. The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information under the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014.

 

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