88 Energy Limited Charlie-1 Appraisal Well Update (7705P)

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RNS Number : 7705P

88 Energy Limited

15 October 2019

15(th) October 2019

88 Energy Limited

Charlie-1 Appraisal Well Update

88 Energy Limited (ASX: 88E) ("88 Energy" or the "Company") provides the following update related to the upcoming drilling of the Charlie-1 appraisal well at Project Icewine, located on the Central North Slope, Alaska.

Highlights

   --    Rig contract executed for Charlie-1 appraisal well 
   --    Operational activity for Charlie-1 progressing to plan for February 2020 spud 
   --    Farm-out with Premier Oil Plc expected to complete shortly 

Operations Update

88 Energy Ltd, via its 100% owned subsidiary Accumulate Energy Alaska, Inc ("Accumulate"), has executed a rig contract with Nordic-Callista Services to utilise Rig-3 for the upcoming drilling of the Charlie-1 appraisal well. 88 Energy utilised Rig-3 for the drilling of the Winx-1 well in March 2019 and was extremely pleased with its safe and efficient performance throughout the course of operations.

Significant progress has been made on the permitting front, with only two of the key permits now outstanding; the Plan of Operations and Permit to Drill, which are both in the process of being finalised and approved. Additionally, tendering and finalisation of contracts for equipment and services required for Charlie-1 are advancing as planned.

The conditions precedent related to the recent farm-out with Premier Oil Plc are being completed according to schedule, with all conditions expected to be met prior to the end of November 2019.

About the Charlie-1 Appraisal Well

The Charlie-1 appraisal well has been designed as a step out appraisal of a well drilled in 1991 by BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc called Malguk-1. Malguk-1 encountered oil shows with elevated resistivity and mud gas readings over multiple horizons during drilling but was not tested due to complications towards the end of operations, which resulted in lack of time before the close of the winter drilling season. It was also drilled using vintage 2D seismic, which was insufficient to adequately determine the extent of any of the prospective targets encountered.

88 Energy subsequently undertook revised petrophysical analysis, which identified what is interpreted as bypassed pay in the Malguk-1 well. 88E also completed acquisition of modern 3D seismic in 2018, in order to determine the extent of the discovered oil accumulations. Charlie-1 will intersect seven stacked prospects, four of which are interpreted as oil bearing in Malguk--1 and are therefore considered appraisal targets. 88 Energy will operate Charlie-1, via its 100% owned subsidiary Accumulate Energy Alaska, Inc, with cost of the well to be funded by Premier Oil Plc up to US$23m under a recent farm-out agreement. Drilling is scheduled to commence in February 2020 with flow testing anticipated to conclude in April 2020. The total Gross Mean Prospective Resource across the seven stacked targets to be intersected by Charlie-1 is 1.6 billion barrels of oil (480 million barrels net to 88E). Refer announcement dated 23(rd) August.

Cautionary Statement: The estimated quantities of petroleum that may be potentially recovered by the application of a future development project relate to undiscovered accumulations. These estimates have both an associated risk of discovery and a risk of development. Further exploration, appraisal and evaluation are required to determine the existence of a significant quantity of potentially movable hydrocarbons.

 
 CHARLIE-1 INTERSECTED HORIZONS 
  Prospective Oil Resource MMBO (Unrisked) 
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 Prospects and Leads        August 2019: Post Farm-Out 
                            Horizon / Play     Low   Best   High   Gross   Net Mean 
                                                                    Mean     to 88E 
 Indigo Discovery           Schrader/Topset    225    358    543     374        112 
 Charlie Prospect           Schrader/Topset    126    201    304     210         63 
                            Seabee/Apron 
 Lima Upper Prospect         Fan                23     66    144      77         23 
                            Seabee/Apron 
 Lime Lower Prospect         Fan                77    240    528     299         90 
 Stellar Upper Discovery    Torok Fan          121    234    394     249         75 
 Stellar Middle 
  Discovery                 Torok Channel      148    277    455     292         88 
 Stellar Lower Prospect     Torok Fan           51     93    150      98         29 
-------------------------  -----------------  ----  -----  -----  ------  --------- 
                                                CHARLIE-1 TOTAL:   1,599        480 
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A graphic showing the proposed Charlie-1 well location and the seven stacked horizons referred to in the table above can be viewed at the following link

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/7705P_1-2019-10-14.pdf

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