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11 April 2017
Europa Oil &
Gas (Holdings) plc (‘Europa’ or ‘the Company’)
Update on
Wressle Oil Discovery
Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the AIM traded UK and
Ireland focused oil and gas
exploration, development and production company, notes the update
issued today by Egdon Resources plc (‘Egdon’) regarding the Wressle
Oil Field at Lodge Farm, North Lincolnshire (‘Wressle’). This
includes the commencement of the appeal process (‘the Appeal’) in
respect of the refusal of planning consent for the development of
Wressle by North Lincolnshire County Council (‘the Council’) on 11
January 2017. Europa has a 30%* working interest in Wressle
alongside Egdon (operator, 25%), Celtique Energie Petroleum Ltd
(30%, after the sale of 3.33% to Union Jack Oil which is subject to
OGA approval), and Union Jack Oil (15%, following the above sale),
(together ‘the Joint Venture partners’).
- The Appeal is being undertaken via the Planning Inspectorate
which is currently validating the relevant documentation.
Egdon expects the validation process to take between one and two
weeks. Following this, Egdon and the Council will be notified
of the start date and timetable for the appeal process.
- As previously announced, Egdon will be submitting a new
planning application for the Wressle development during
April 2017 and will include detailed
information to address the specific concerns outlined by the
Council in their refusal.
- The Environmental Permit for the Wressle development is
expected to be issued towards the end of April 2017, subject to the outcome of the current
consultation process on the draft permit which closes shortly.
- The water monitoring boreholes, for which planning consent was
received at the 11 January 2017
planning meeting, were successfully installed on the existing
Wressle well site during February
2017.
Europa’s CEO, Hugh Mackay, said
“Wressle is just one of many conventional oil fields that have been
discovered in the East Midlands, a petroleum province which has a
long heritage of oil and gas production stretching over decades. As
a result, we believe the case to bring Wressle into production is
strong and we are hopeful that Egdon, in its capacity as operator
of the licence, will be successful with the Appeal.”
*On 24 November 2016, Europa
announced it had signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement (‘SPA’) with
Upland Resources (UK Onshore) Limited in relation to a 10% interest
in PEDLs 180 and 182. Completion of the SPA, which is subject
to planning and other approvals would result in Europa retaining a
20% interest in the Licences.
* * ENDS * *
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 |
Susie Geliher |
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. Its highly prospective exploration projects
include the Wressle oil development in the UK and seven licences
offshore Ireland with the
potential to host gross mean un-risked prospective and indicative
resources of more than 4 billion barrels oil equivalent and 1.5 TCF
gas across all seven licences. In 2016 Europa produced 123 boepd
from its portfolio of onshore UK licences.
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.