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Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc / Index: AIM / Epic: EOG / Sector: Oil & Gas 
 
23 March 2015 
 
          Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc (`Europa' or `the Company') 
 
                    Update on Kiln Lane-1 Well, onshore UK 
 
Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the AIM quoted oil and gas company with a 
combination of producing and exploration assets in Europe, announces the 
completion of drilling operations at the Kiln Lane-1 conventional exploration 
well (`Kiln Lane' or `the Well') on Licence PEDL 181 in Northeast Lincolnshire. 
The Well spudded on 23 February 2015 and reached a total depth (`TD') of 2,291 
metres on 19 March. Sandstones in the Westphalian and Namurian intervals were 
penetrated in line with the pre-drill geological model and significant oil and 
gas shows were observed during drilling operations. However, wireline logging 
and subsequent petrophysical analysis indicates that the sandstones encountered 
are water wet. The Well will therefore be plugged and abandoned and the site 
restored to agricultural use. 
 
Europa is operator of and has a 50% working interest in PEDL 181, which covers 
an area of over 540 km2 in the East Midlands Petroleum Province. Egdon 
Resources and Celtique Energie Petroleum Ltd each have a 25% interest in the 
Licence. Europa and its partners will conduct a detailed post-drill technical 
review of all relevant well and seismic data to determine the way forward with 
this large exploration licence. 
 
Europa's CEO, Hugh Mackay said, "While we are disappointed with the outcome, 
Kiln Lane was drilled on schedule, on budget and safely. This is testament to 
the performance of both our own technical team and the engineering crew on the 
ground. Kiln Lane was the first well to be drilled on this large licence where 
multiple leads have been identified. The presence of hydrocarbon shows is 
encouraging and the quality of data recovered will enable clear decision making 
going forwards. Over the coming weeks and months more technical work will be 
conducted on all the data and geological samples recovered from the well as we 
refine our hydrocarbon system model and plan our next steps for the Licence. 
 
"Thanks to having a portfolio of licences at various stages of development, we 
will not be short of potentially high impact news flow in the weeks and months 
ahead. Ongoing testing operations at the Wressle discovery in PEDL 180 where 
hydrocarbons have been recovered from all three payzones tested to date are due 
to be completed shortly. This will be followed by an extended well test later 
this year. Perhaps most importantly, we have commissioned a Competent Persons 
Report on our Irish licences in the South Porcupine Basin where gross mean 
unrisked prospective resources of up to 1.5 billion barrels of oil have already 
been identified by our partner Kosmos Energy. We expect to issue the CPR in H1 
2015. With so much activity across our asset base, I look forward to providing 
further updates on our progress in due course." 
 
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For further information please visit www.europaoil.com or contact: 
 
Hugh Mackay         Europa                          + 44 (0) 20 7224 3770 
 
Phil Greenhalgh     Europa                          + 44 (0) 20 7224 3770 
 
Matt Goode          finnCap Ltd                     +44 (0) 20 7220 0500 
 
Simon Hicks         finnCap Ltd                     +44 (0) 20 7220 0500 
 
Frank Buhagiar      St Brides Partners Ltd          +44 (0) 20 7236 1177 
 
Lottie Brocklehurst St Brides Partners Ltd          +44 (0) 20 7236 1177 
 
Notes 
 
Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc has a diversified portfolio of multi-stage 
hydrocarbon assets that includes production, exploration and development 
interests, in countries that are politically stable, have transparent licensing 
processes, and offer attractive terms. The Company produced 165 boepd in the UK 
during the 2013/2014 financial year, generating sufficient revenues to cover 
corporate overheads and some exploration expenditure. Its highly prospective 
exploration projects include the Wressle discovery (recently drilled and 
undergoing testing) in the UK; 100% owned gas exploration prospect (107 bcf) 
and appraisal project (CPR 277 bcf) in onshore France a joint venture with 
Vermillion Energy also in onshore France; and a joint venture with leading 
independent Kosmos to explore two licences in offshore Ireland with the 
potential to host gross mean unrisked prospective resources of 1.5 billion 
barrels. 
 
Qualified Person Review 
 
This release has been reviewed by Hugh Mackay, Chief Executive of Europa, who 
is a petroleum geologist with 30 years' experience in petroleum exploration and 
a member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain, American 
Association of Petroleum Geologists and Fellow of the Geological Society. Mr 
Mackay has consented to the inclusion of the technical information in this 
release in the form and context in which it appears. 
 
 
 
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