Block Energy PLC Issue of Shares (5701J)

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RNS Number : 5701J

Block Energy PLC

13 December 2022

13 December 2022

Block Energy plc

("Block" or the "Company")

Issue of Shares to Jindal Petroleum (Georgia) Limited

Block Energy plc, the development and production company focused on Georgia, announces that it has issued shares to Jindal Petroleum (Georgia) Limited ("Jindal").

A total of 120,000,000 nil-cost options were granted in 2020 to SLB (formerly Schlumberger) as consideration for the acquisition of Schlumberger Rustaveli Company Limited ("SRCL"), which held Georgia's most productive licence, XI(B) . As part of the Transaction, SLB assigned a total of 12,000,000 nil-cost options to Jindal (the licence owner of XI(B) prior to SLB).

As such, the Company has today issued 12,000,000 shares to Jindal and will hold such shares in certificate form. As previously announced, SLB notified the Company of its intention not to exercise its right to acquire 108,000,000 shares under the Option Agreement.

Application will be made for the admission to trading on AIM ("Admission") for the 12,000,000 ordinary shares. The ordinary shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares of the Company. Admission is expected at 8.00 a.m. on or around 19 December 2022.

Total Voting Rights

Following Admission, the Company's issued share capital will comprise 680,638,392 ordinary shares with one voting right each. As the Company does not hold any shares in Treasury, the total number of voting rights in the Company is also 680,638,392 and this figure of ordinary shares may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

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THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION AS STIPULATED UNDER THE UK VERSION OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION NO 596/2014 WHICH IS PART OF ENGLISH LAW BY VIRTUE OF THE EUROPEAN (WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018, AS AMENDED. ON PUBLICATION OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT VIA A REGULATORY INFORMATION SERVICE, THIS INFORMATION IS CONSIDERED TO BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

For further information please visit http://www.blockenergy.co.uk/ or contact:

 
 Paul Haywood           Block Energy plc           Tel: +44 (0)20 
  (Chief Executive                                  3468 9891 
  Officer) 
 Neil Baldwin           Spark Advisory Partners    Tel: +44 (0)20 
  (Nominated Adviser)    Limited                    3368 3554 
 Peter Krens            Tennyson Securities        Tel: +44 (0)20 
  (Corporate Broker)                                7186 9030 
 Mark Antelme           Celicourt Communications   Tel: +44 (0)20 
  Philip Dennis                                     8434 2643 
  (Financial PR 
  Adviser) 
 

Notes to editors

Block Energy plc is an AIM-listed independent oil and gas company focused on production and development in Georgia, applying innovative technology to realise the full potential of previously discovered fields.

Block has a 100% working interest in Georgian onshore licence blocks IX and XI (B) . Licence block XI (B) is Georgia's most productive block. During the mid-1980s, production peaked at 67,000 bopd and cumulative production reached 100 MMbbls and 80 MMbbls of oil from the Patardzeuli and Samgori fields, respectively. The remaining 2P reserves across block XI (B) are 64 MMboe, comprising 2P oil reserves of 36 MMbbls and 2P gas reserves of 28 MMboe. (Source: CPR Bayphase Limited: 1 July 2015). Additionally, following an internal technical study designed to evaluate and quantify the undrained oil potential of the Middle Eocene within the Patardzeuli field, the Company has estimated gross unrisked 2C contingent resources of 200 MMbbls of oil.

The Company has a 100% working interest in licence block XI (F) containing the West Rustavi onshore oil and gas field. Multiple wells have tested oil and gas from a range of geological horizons. The field has so far produced over 75 Mbbls of light sweet crude and has 1.07 MMbbls of gross 2P oil reserves in the Middle Eocene. It also has 38 MMbbls of gross unrisked 2C contingent resources of oil and 608 Bcf of gross unrisked 2C contingent resources of gas in the Middle, Upper and Lower Eocene formations (Source: CPR Gustavson Associates: 1 January 2018, ERCE 2022).

In 2022, a Competent Person's Report provided by ERCE, ascribed 3P reserves of 3.01 million barrels, with an NPV project value of USD 57 million, to just a portion of the West Rustavi/Krtsanisi Middle Eocene reservoir.

Block also holds 100% and 90% working interests respectively in the onshore oil producing Norio and Satskhenisi fields.

The Company offers a clear entry point for investors to gain exposure to Georgia's growing economy and the strong regional demand for oil and gas.

Glossary

-- bbls: barrels. A barrel is 35 imperial gallons.

-- Bcf: billion cubic feet.

-- boe: barrels of oil equivalent.

-- bopd: barrels of oil per day.

-- Mbbls: thousand barrels.

-- MMbbls: million barrels.

-- MMboe: million barrels of oil equivalent.

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