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Canadian Overseas Petroleum acquires high quality oil asset in Nigeria

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Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited, an international oil and gas exploration and development company focused on offshore West Africa, has announced its 50% owned affiliate, Shoreline Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited, has completed the acquisition of 80% of the share capital of Essar Exploration and Production Limited. Essar Nigeria’s sole asset is a 100% interest and operatorship of OPL 226 located 50 km offshore in the central area of the Niger Delta.

Under the terms of the Production Sharing Contract governing OPL 226 (the “Block”), Essar Nigeria is required to seek Ministerial consent for the transaction. Application has been made and the parties to the transaction are awaiting its approval. Under the terms of the acquisition, ShoreCan will take over management and have a majority of Directors on the Board of the Essar Nigeria immediately.

OPL 226 has an area of 1530 km² and is located approximately 50 km offshore the central delta region of Nigeria in water depths ranging from 40 to 180 m. It offers oil appraisal and development opportunities having near term oil production potential and significant exploration upside. Historically, five wells have been drilled, with the first oil discovery on the Block made in 2001 in the fifth well after earlier drilling intersected predominantly gas-bearing sands.

The Block is situated along a large growth fault-controlled structural complex, which the Company refers to as the “Noa Complex”. Extensive seismic campaigns have been conducted on the block over the years with 1750 km of 2D seismic, and approximately 1300 km² of 3D seismic data acquired to date. ShoreCan in the last year has completed additional seismic processing to the most recent 568 km² 3D seismic survey acquired by Essar Nigeria in 2012. The advanced seismic processing techniques applied to this data set by ShoreCan were done to differentiate oil-bearing sands from gas and water bearing sands. These techniques were unavailable previously due to the poor quality and inappropriate parameters of the earlier seismic data sets.

Arthur Millholland, President & CEO, commented: ”This is a great opportunity for our company. It is a result of our efforts and of our partner in ShoreCan; the Nigeria based Shoreline Energy International. It allows the company to leverage its in-house technical expertise and expand its regional footprint to acquire a high quality oil appraisal and development asset offshore Nigeria. It will be an excellent complement to our current West African portfolio.”


Adapted from a press release by David Bizley

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