Petro Matad Limited Operational Update - Spud of Velociraptor-1 (6728C)

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Petro Matad Limited

14 June 2023

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14 June 2023

Petro Matad Limited

("Petro Matad" or the "Company")

Operational Update - Spud of Velociraptor-1

Spud of the Velociraptor-1 Exploration Well

Petro Matad Limited (AIM:MATD), the AIM quoted Mongolian oil company, is pleased to announce that the Velociraptor-1 exploration well in the Taats Basin of Block V located in central Mongolia spudded on 13 June. The well is the first on the Raptor Trend of prospects located 7km south of the Snow Leopard-1 well drilled in 2018 that proved a working petroleum system in the Taats Basin. Velociraptor-1 is targeting a n inversion anticline prospect estimated to have 200 million barrels (MMbo) of Mean Prospective Recoverable Resource potential and is planned to drill to a total depth ("TD") of circa 1,500 metres. The well is expected to take circa 30 days to reach TD and encouraging results in the Velociraptor prospect would significantly de-risk two adjacent prospects on the Raptor Trend which together have Mean Prospective Recoverable Resource potential of an additional 375 MMbo.

Block XX Exploitation Licence

On Block XX, the Ministry of Construction and Urban Development has completed its internal work on the certification of the Company's Exploitation Area as special purpose land and has submitted the documentation to all other government ministries for comment prior to submission to Cabinet. We continue to press the relevant authorities to conclude this process.

Further operational updates will be provided in due course.

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Further information please contact:

 
Petro Matad Limited 
Mike Buck, CEO                   +976 7014 1099 / +976 7575 1099 
Shore Capital (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) 
Toby Gibbs 
 John More R achel Goldstein     +44 (0) 20 7408 4090 
Zeus Capital Limited (Joint 
 Broker) 
 Simon Johnson 
 Louisa Waddell                    +44 (0) 20 3829 5000 
FTI Consulting (Communications 
 Advisory Firm) 
Ben Brewerton 
 Christopher Laing               +44 (0) 20 3727 1000

All Reserves and Resources definitions and estimates shown in this report are based on the 2018 SPE/AAPG/WPC/SPEE Petroleum Resource Management System ("PRMS").

Prospective Recoverable Resources are defined under PRMS as : Those quantities of petroleum estimated, as of a given date, to be potentially recoverable from undiscovered accumulations by application of future development projects.

Technical information in this news release has been reviewed by the Company's Technical Manager, Mr. Jerry Smart. He has over 40 years of industry experience in oil and gas exploration and production with LASMO, Eni, Salamander Energy and Ophir Energy. He holds a B.Sc. in Geology from King's College, London.

About Petro Matad

Petro Matad is the parent company of a group focussed on oil exploration, as well as future development and production in Mongolia. At the current time, Petro Matad holds 100% working interest and the operatorship of two Production Sharing Contracts with the Government of Mongolia. Block XX has an area of 218 square kilometres in the far eastern part of the country and Block V has an area of 7,937 square kilometres in the central western part of the country.

Petro Matad Limited is incorporated in the Isle of Man under company number 1483V. Its registered office is at Victory House, Prospect Hill, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 1EQ.

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