Completion of Harvey funding, seismic reinterpretation results and Harvey appraisal well preparation

Highlights

• £15 million non-convertible loan facility (the 'Harvey Facility') now closed with London Oil and Gas Limited (LOG), on terms as previously announced:
  • Proceeds to fund Harvey appraisal well and other corporate and project costs, including full repayment of final remaining Skipper liabilities.
  • Five-year maturity and interest rate of LIBOR+9% per annum;
  • 20,000,000 warrants issued, exercisable at 32.18p, a 10% premium to the closing price of IOG shares on 16 August 2018.
• The Harvey appraisal well aims to prove gas across the entire structure and is expected to spud in January 2019. New PSDM seismic reinterpretation work has yielded the following management estimates:
  • Geological Chance of Success: 63% (November 2017 CPR: 50%)
  • Low/Mid/High resources: 85/129/199 BCF (CPR: 44/114/286 BCF)
  • Unrisked mid-case NPV(10): £232 million (CPR: £159 million)
• This analysis has also informed the optimal location for the appraisal well. Further ongoing PSDM work is focused on the Redwell discovery and Woodforde and Norada prospects, all of which lie in the Harvey licence area.
• IOG has contracted Fraser Well Management to manage and operate the Har-vey appraisal well. Both the rig and offshore service provider have been provisionally agreed and expected to be confirmed shortly.
• IOG’s nearby 100%-owned Thames pipeline would be the main gas export route for the Harvey development.

Andrew Hockey, CEO of IOG commented: “A successful Harvey appraisal well would be a game changer for IOG, providing a major increase to our existing 303 BCF 2P proven gas reserves in the Southern North Sea. Our new seismic reinterpretation work has given us more definition of the structure and more confidence in the resource range, well location, and most importantly the geological chance of success, which is now up to 63%.

Crucially, we now estimate even the low case to be 85 BCF, which would make a very attractive development at nearly double the November 2017 CPR’s 44 BCF low case. Our 129 BCF mid-case management estimate is also an improvement on the CPR’s 114 BCF mid-case and, if successfully appraised, we see potential for a streamlined development, benefitting from very strong synergies with our other assets. This results in a £232 million NPV, nearly 50% more than the CPR number, transforming the company’s over-all economics.

 

Closing the Harvey Facility is an important step forward, confirming an exciting near-term value catalyst for investors within the wider context of our high-value development project. We are also very pleased to have engaged Fraser Well Management to operate this well, given their wealth of relevant experience in this basin. Further updates will be provided as we confirm other contractors and the spud date in due course.”

 

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