Sound Energy PLC Tendrara Certification - Preliminary TE-5 Results (8914Z)
December 20 2017 - 2:00AM
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RNS Number : 8914Z
Sound Energy PLC
20 December 2017
20 December 2017
Sound Energy PLC
("Sound Energy" or the "Company")
Tendrara Volume Certification - Preliminary TE-5 Horst
Results
Sound Energy, the African and European focused upstream gas
company, is pleased to announce receipt of the preliminary results
of the resources certification in relation to the TE-5 horst core
volumes at the Company's Tendrara asset, onshore Morocco
("Certification").
The Certification, which will include a full technical review of
the Tendrara project, is being conducted by RPS Energy Consultants
Ltd ("RPS"). The Certification, which utilises the latest SPE
Petroleum Resources Management System ("PRMS") approved definitions
of Reserves and Resources, is a very important step towards
concession application and a Final Investment Decision.
The preliminary results of the Certification (final results on
the Tendrara area are expected to be available in early January
2017) provide volumetric estimates for the TAGI-1 and TAGI-2
reservoir units in the TE-5 Horst.
On 23 May 2017, the Company announced an internal preliminary
mid case gross Gas Originally in Place ("GOIP") estimate for the
TE-5 horst of 0.63 Tcf.
Sound Energy is delighted to report that the preliminary results
of the Certification validate this previous mid case GOIP (gross)
estimate.
Preliminary results of the RPS certification:
-- A mid case GOIP for the TE-5 horst alone of 0.65 Tcf
-- A 2C (mid case) recoverable, contingent resource for the TE-5 horst of 377 Bcf
The results of the Certification will be utilized for
development planning and to advance development funding solutions,
already under discussion.
The Certification was undertaken on an area of 250km(2) , which
equates to around 1% of the total Eastern Morocco permit area of
approximately 23,500km(2) . Planning for the Exploration drilling
programme, announced on the 4 October 2017, continues in parallel
with the development activity. This programme is an important step
in unlocking the Company's previously estimated unrisked GOIP
potential across all the Eastern Moroccan acreage, of 17 Tcf mid
case (31 Tcf upside case and 9 Tcf low case), as announced on the 1
February 2017.
The table below summarise the preliminary results of the
Certification and present the discovered in-place plus Contingent
Resources evaluated by RPS for the Tendrara TE-5 horst.
Discovered in-place volumes and contingent resources
Segment Discovered Gas Originally Contingent Resources
name In Place (Bcf) (Bcf)(1)
------------ ------------------------------ -------------------------
Gross (100%) basis Gross (100%) basis
------------ ------------------------------ -------------------------
Low Mid High 1C 2C 3C
------------ -------- -------- ---------- ------- ------- -------
TE-5 Horst
(TAGI
1 and
2) 349 651 873 197 377 533
------------ -------- -------- ---------- ------- ------- -------
(1) Contingent Resources are technical volumes i.e.no economic
limit test applied
This announcement is inside information for the purposes of
Article 7 of Regulation 596/2014.
For further information please contact:
Vigo Communications - PR Adviser
Patrick d'Ancona Chris McMahon Alexandra Roper
Tel: +44 (0)20 7830 9700
Sound Energy
James Parsons, Chief Executive Officer
j.parsons@soundenergyplc.com
Smith & Williamson - Nominated Adviser
Azhic Basirov David Jones Ben Jeynes
Tel: +44 (0)20 7131 4000
RBC Capital Markets - Broker
Matthew Coakes Martin Copeland Laura White
Tel: +44 (0)20 7653 4000
The information contained in this announcement has been reviewed
by Sound Energy's Exploration Director, Brian Mitchener, a
chartered petroleum geologist. Bcf means billion standard cubic
feet of gas; Tcf means trillion cubic feet of gas; and best case,
high case and low case estimates are consistent with SPE (The
Society of Petroleum Engineers) PRMS guidelines.
RPS Group PLC (http://www.rpsgroup.com/) are a global
consultancy providing a range of services, including geological,
geophysical and petroleum engineering services to the oil and gas
industry. The inplace and contingent resource estimates within this
note have been provided by RPS Group PLC.
Resources are all quantities of petroleum (recoverable and
unrecoverable) naturally occurring on or within the Earth's crust,
discovered and undiscovered, plus those quantities already
produced. Contingent resources are those quantities of petroleum
estimated, as at a given date, to be potentially recoverable from
known accumulations but where the applicable project(s) are not yet
considered mature enough for commercial development due to one or
more contingencies.
This information is provided by RNS
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