Hurricane Energy PLC Interim Well Update - Completion of Lincoln (1697S)

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RNS Number : 1697S

Hurricane Energy PLC

19 December 2016

19 December 2016

This announcement contains inside information

Hurricane Energy plc

("Hurricane" or the "Company")

Interim Well Update

Completion of Lincoln Well Operations

Hurricane Energy plc, the UK based oil and gas company focused on hydrocarbon resources in naturally fractured basement reservoirs, announces that the Company has completed the drilling and logging phase of the 205/26b-A well (the "Lincoln Well"). The information communicated below relating to the Lincoln Well is preliminary and will be updated following detailed analysis once the final well data and third party reports have been received and analysed.

The Company is delighted to announce that the Lincoln operations have resulted in a significant fractured basement discovery; the key headlines of which include:

-- hydrocarbons were encountered at the depth of the planned TD of the Lincoln Well resulting in the operational decision to deepen the Lincoln Well;

-- gas chromatography and logging while drilling data indicates a very significant hydrocarbon column of at least 660 metres TVD, comparable to that found at Lancaster; and

-- the oil down to ("ODT") was observed at approximately 520 metres TVD below structural closure which is 168 metres TVD below the ODT in the Arco 205/21-1 well, which was drilled on Lincoln's flank in 1995 (the "Arco Well").

The Lincoln Well was planned to exclude testing, and the well is now being plugged and abandoned ahead of the Transocean Spitsbergen drilling rig being demobilised from the Lincoln Well. A further announcement will be made once weather and sea state conditions have allowed for the rig to move to the Halifax well location and for the well to be spudded.

Dr Robert Trice, CEO of Hurricane, commented:

"I am delighted that, at the end of an extraordinary year for Hurricane, the Lincoln Well has discovered a significant oil column outside structural closure on our Greater Lancaster Area acreage. Our initial assessment of the drilling results will be subject to refinement by analysis of wireline and sidewall core data, however, current analysis indicates that our pre-drill resource assessments - which were constrained by the oil down to in the Arco Well - of approximately 250 million barrels of recoverable oil for the Lincoln prospect may be conservative.

I look forward to Hurricane's imminent operations on the hugely important Halifax well and to simultaneously progressing towards the sanction of the Lancaster Early Production System in H1 2017."

Contact details:

 
 Hurricane Energy plc 
  Dr Robert Trice, Chief Executive 
  Officer 
  Alistair Stobie, Chief Financial    [phone] 
  Officer                              820 
 Cenkos Securities plc 
  Nominated Adviser and Joint 
  Broker 
  Derrick Lee/Nick Tulloch/Beth       [phone] 
  McKiernan                            6939 
 Macquarie Capital (Europe) 
  Limited 
  Joint Broker                        [phone] 
  Alex Reynolds/Guy de Freitas         2000 
 Vigo Communications                  [phone] 
  Patrick d'Ancona/Ben Simons          9700 
 

About Hurricane

Hurricane is an oil and gas company focused on hydrocarbon resources in naturally fractured basement reservoirs. The Company's focus is to discover, appraise and develop oil reserves in basement rock. Hurricane has already successfully discovered substantial volumes of oil on the UKCS. The Company has 444-470 mmboe of 2C Contingent Resources and 432-442 mmboe of P50 Prospective Resources on acreage it controls 100%.

Further information on Hurricane can be found at: www.hurricaneenergy.com.

Competent person:

The technical information in this release has been reviewed by Dr Robert Trice, who is a qualified person for the purposes of the AIM Guidance Note for Mining, Oil and Gas Companies. Dr Robert Trice, Chief Executive Officer of Hurricane Energy plc, is a geologist and geoscientist with a PhD in geology and has over 30 years' experience in the oil and gas industry.

Glossary of technical terms used in this announcement:

 
 2C           denotes a best estimate scenario of 
               Contingent Resources 
 Contingent   those quantities of petroleum estimated, 
  Resources    as of a given date, to be potentially 
               recoverable from known accumulations 
               by application of development projects, 
               but which are not currently considered 
               to be commercially recoverable due 
               to one or more contingencies 
 TD           The depth of the bottom of the well. 
               Usually, it is the depth where drilling 
               has stopped 
 TVD          True vertical depth 
 

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