Prospex Oil and Gas Plc has rasied £720 000
Published by Laura Dean,
Deputy Editor
Oilfield Technology,
Prospex Oil and Gas Plc has announced that it has raised £720 000 gross via an oversubscribed placing of 600 million new ordinary shares of £0.001 each in the company (ordinary shares) (the placing shares) at a price of 0.12 pence per placing share (the placing price) (the placing). The net proceeds of the placing will primarily be used to fund the company’s acquisition of a 49.9% indirect stake in El Romeral, an integrated gas production and power station operation located in the Guadalquivir basin in southern Spain. The placing was undertaken with new and existing investors as well as certain directors of the company who are acquiring placing shares with an aggregate value of £140 000 based on the placing price.
Use of proceeds
As previously announced, El Romeral is being acquired by Tarba Energia S.L which is jointly owned by Prospex and Warrego Energy Ltd. Warrego funded the initial consideration of €750 000 for a 100% interest in El Romeral. Tarba has advised the Company that this has been paid to the vendor and the vendor has initiated the transfer process.?Following the placing, Prospex will elect to participate with a 49.9% interest in the project and will therefore refund to Warrego the corresponding proportion of the initial consideration (€374 250). Following this, Warrego will indirectly own the balance of the project, being 50.1%.
El Romeral includes three production licences on which three wells supply gas to a Project-owned 8.1 MW power station. The acquisition of a 49.9% interest in El Romeral will therefore lead to a step-up in Prospex's production profile to five producing gas wells, which have the potential to generate over 9 million m3 net in 2021. In addition to the three producing wells at El Romeral, Prospex has a 50% interest in the Bainet-1 well on the Suceava Concession in Romania and a 17% economic interest in the Podere Maiar-1 well on the Podere Gallina Exploration Permit in Italy which is expected to commence production in 2020 at rates up to 150 000 m3/d (5300 ft3/d), subject to regulatory approvals and installation of production equipment.
El Romeral offers significant development upside to increase gas production and, in turn, electricity generation at the Project’s plant, which was constructed in 2001-2002 at a cost of approximately €10 million and currently operates at ~22% capacity. Gross contingent and prospective gas resources of 5 billion ft3 and 90 billion ft3 have been assigned to two development locations and 11 very-low risk prospects at El Romeral respectively. A planning and permitting process for a three well campaign targeting these prospects is expected to commence in Q1-Q2 2020.? ?The proceeds of the Placing will also go towards funding the 2020 work programme planned for Prospex’s 15%-owned 830 billion ft3 Tesorillo gas project in Spain as well as general working capital purposes.
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