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| Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Type | Share ISIN | Share Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uk Oil & Gas Plc | LSE:UKOG | London | Ordinary Share | GB00BS3D4G58 | ORD GBP0.000001 |
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| Industry Sector | Turnover | Profit | EPS - Basic | PE Ratio | Market Cap |
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| Finance Services | 1.78M | -4.87M | -0.0015 | -0.27 | 1.3M |
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TIDMUKOG
RNS Number : 0306J
UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC
23 June 2017
UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC
("UKOG" or the "Company")
Oil Seeps from Kimmeridge Limestone Core Samples at Broadford Bridge-1 Kimmeridge Exploration Well, PEDL234 Licence, Weald Basin, UK
UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC (London AIM and NEX: UKOG) is delighted to announce that mobile light oil has been observed seeping from open natural fractures in Kimmeridge Limestone 4 ("KL4") core samples at its 100%-owned Broadford Bridge-1 ("BB-1") exploration well. The KL4 samples, at a measured depth of around 4080 feet, exhibit a strong oil odour plus the rock matrix is oil saturated and heavily oil stained. Wet gas readings also increased significantly at the top of the KL4. Both the KL4 and overlying shales exhibit a high degree of natural fracturing. Coring operations continue through KL4.
The well remains on schedule and under budget.
The 160 ft of core taken to date in the Upper Kimmeridge Shales and Limestones will be transported to Aberdeen today for initial rock sampling at the weekend, before extensive geological, petrophysical and geo-mechanical analyses will be carried out by COREX and Premier Oilfield Laboratories in the UK and USA.
Stephen Sanderson, UKOG's Executive Chairman commented:
"I am privileged and excited to have seen, smelt and touched the oil in the KL4 samples today, alongside UKOG's management and operations team. This is a significant and positive result at such an early stage in the well.
Whilst this is still early days, the presence of mobile oil within a Kimmeridge geological feature that has no structural oil trapping configuration, demonstrates that both BB-1 and Horse Hill-1 could be part of the same Kimmeridge continuous oil deposit. This oil deposit may therefore extend over 30 km from north to south across the Weald Basin.
We will now continue our coring and drilling programme and then move to an extended flow testing operation upon the grant of the remaining necessary regulatory permissions."
About Coring
Coring is a drilling technique that involves using a doughnut-shaped drilling bit to capture or "cut" a continuous cylinder-shaped core of undamaged in-situ rock. The core is captured in a steel pipe or "core barrel" above the core bit. Core is normally cut in 30 feet lengths, or multiples of 30 feet, and in the case of BB-1 with a diameter of 4 inches. Core is taken in petroleum reservoir rocks for detailed laboratory analyses of petrophysical and geomechanical parameters and of any hydrocarbons contained within the rock.
About BB-1
BB-1 is located near Billingshurst, West Sussex, within the 300 km(2) PEDL234 licence, in which the Company has a 100% interest via its ownership of the licence's operator, Kimmeridge Oil & Gas Limited. The well, an exploration step-out, is designed to penetrate four naturally fractured Kimmeridge Limestone units (KL1-KL4), the uppermost two units of which flowed at record rates in the Horse Hill-1 discovery near Gatwick Airport.
Importantly, to prove that the Kimmeridge Limestones lie within an extensive continuous oil deposit the BB-1 well was deliberately designed to test a feature with no structural closure at the KL1-KL4 horizons.
The forward plan is to continue to core the KL4 and KL3 target zones and then continue to drill 8 1/2 " diameter hole at a constant inclination of 54 degrees to vertical. Further core may be taken in KL2. The planned overall horizontal deviation of the well is approximately 1 km. The Kimmeridge Limestones are expected to be encountered at a drilled depth of approximately 1250-1700 metres, which equates to around 950-1200 metres vertically below surface.
Qualified Person's Statement
Stephen Sanderson, UKOG's Executive Chairman, who has over 35 years of relevant experience in the oil industry, has approved the information contained in this announcement. Mr Sanderson is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London and is an active member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
For further information, please contact:
UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC
Stephen Sanderson / Kiran Morzaria Tel: 01483 243450
WH Ireland (Nominated Adviser and Broker)
James Joyce / James Bavister Tel: 020 7220 1666
Cenkos Securities PLC (Joint Broker)
Nick Tulloch / Neil McDonald Tel: 0131 220 6939
Square 1 Consulting (Public Relations)
Brian Alexander / David Bick Tel: 01483 243450 / 020 7929 5599
Glossary:
Hot Features
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casing heavy gauge steel tubing designed
to line the wall of a well. The
casing provides a safe controlled
space in which the drill pipe and
bit can operate in isolation from
conditions in overlying rock units.
The steel tubing is bonded to the
surrounding rock by impermeable
concrete, known as "cement"
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core or coring a drilling technique that involves
using a doughnut-shaped drilling
bit to capture or "cut" a continuous
cylinder-shaped core of undamaged
in-situ rock. The core is captured
in a steel pipe or "core barrel"
above the bit. Core is normally
cut in 30 feet lengths, or multiples
of 30 feet, and normally with a
diameter of 3.5 or 4 inches. Core
is taken in petroleum reservoir
rocks for detailed laboratory analyses
of petrophysical and geomechanical
parameters
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continuous a petroleum accumulation that is
oil deposit pervasive throughout a large area,
or resource which is not significantly affected
deposit by hydrodynamic influences and
is not trapped by structural or
stratigraphic geological conditions.
The petroleum in these accumulations
is normally found within the rocks
where the petroleum is generated,
i.e. within rocks lying within
petroleum source rocks, normally
organic rich shales such as the
Kimmeridge Clay Formation
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discovery a discovery is a petroleum accumulation
for which one or several exploratory
wells have established through
testing, sampling and/or logging
the existence of a significant
quantity of potentially moveable
hydrocarbons
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limestone a sedimentary rock predominantly
composed of calcite (a crystalline
mineral form of calcium carbonate)
of organic, chemical or detrital
origin. Minor amounts of dolomite,
chert and clay are common in limestones.
Chalk is a form of fine-grained
limestone
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naturally a fractured reservoir contains
fractured open and usually connected cracks
reservoir or fissures within the rock matrix;
fractures can enhance permeability
of rocks greatly by connecting
pore-spaces together; naturally
fractured reservoirs have been
created over geological time by
nature, not man-made via hydraulic
fracturing
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step-out well a well specifically designed to
determine the lateral extent of
a discovered hydrocarbon accumulation
or play
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wet gas natural gas, predominantly consisting
of methane (C1), ethane (C2) and
propane (C3) but also containing
the longer molecular chain natural
gases butane and iso-butane (C4),
pentane and iso-pentane (C5). The
C4 and C5 gases are created during
oil-generation within a petroleum
source rock unit when oil is thermally
cracked. At Horse Hill these natural
gases lie in solution with the
oil in the KL3 and KL4 Kimmeridge
Limestone reservoirs (i.e. solution
or associated gas and not as a
separate free-gas phase).
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UKOG Licence Interests
The Company has interests in the following ten UK licences:
Asset Licence UKOG's Licence Holder Operator Area (km(2) ) Status
Interest
---------------- --------- --------------- --------------- --------------- -------------- ----------------------
UKOG (GB) IGas Energy Field in stable
Avington (1) PEDL070 5% Limited Plc 18.3 production
---------------- --------- --------------- --------------- --------------- -------------- ----------------------
Baxters Copse PEDL233 50% UKOG Weald IGas Energy 89.6 Appraisal/development
(2) Limited Plc well planned; licence
extended to 2018
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Kimmeridge Oil Kimmeridge Oil
Broadford Bridge & Gas Limited & Gas Limited BB-1 drilling
(3) PEDL234 100% (4) (4) 300.0 underway
---------------- --------- --------------- --------------- --------------- -------------- ----------------------
Holmwood (3) PEDL143 30% UKOG Europa Oil & 91.8 Holmwood-1
Gas (Holdings) exploration well
plc planned in 2017
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UKOG (GB) IGas Energy Field in stable
Horndean (1) PL211 10% Limited Plc 27.3 production
---------------- --------- --------------- --------------- --------------- -------------- ----------------------
Horse Hill (5) PEDL137 31.2% Horse Hill Horse Hill 99.3 Submitted planning
Developments Developments application for long
Ltd Ltd term production tests
and drilling of two
wells
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Horse Hill Horse Hill
Developments Developments
Horse Hill (5) PEDL246 31.2% Ltd Ltd 43.6 As above
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Isle of Wight UKOG Solent UKOG Solent Preparing drilling
(Offshore) (3) P1916 100% Limited Limited 46.7 planning submission
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Isle of Wight
(Onshore) (2, Preparing drilling
3) PEDL331 65% UKOG TBA 200.0 planning submission
---------------- --------- --------------- --------------- --------------- -------------- ----------------------
Markwells Wood PEDL126 100% UKOG (GB) UKOG (GB) 11.2 Submitted planning
(2) Limited Limited application for
appraisal and field
development
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Notes:
1. Oil field currently in production.
2. Oil discovery pending development and/or appraisal drilling.
3. Exploration asset with drillable prospects and leads. Contains the extension of the Godley Bridge Portland gas discovery and the site of the forthcoming Broadford Bridge-1 well.
4. UKOG has a 100% interest in Kimmeridge Oil & Gas Limited, which has a 100% interest in PEDL234.
5. Oil discovery with recently completed flow testing.
6. UKOG has a direct 48% interest in HHDL, which has a 65% interest in PEDL137 and PEDL246.
The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information under the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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