Rockhopper Exploration plc 14/15-5 Well Spud and Drilling Order Update (7439G)
March 06 2015 - 2:45AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMRKH
RNS Number : 7439G
Rockhopper Exploration plc
06 March 2015
6 March 2015
Rockhopper Exploration plc
("Rockhopper" or the "Company")
14/15-5 Well Spud and Drilling Order Update
Rockhopper Exploration plc (AIM: RKH), the oil and gas
exploration and production company with interests in the North
Falkland Basin and the Greater Mediterranean region, announces that
the 14/15-5 well (the "Well") was spudded, by Premier Oil as
operator, on 6 March 2015.
The well is located on licence PL004b in which Rockhopper has a
24% working interest and is an exploration well on the Zebedee
prospect. The Zebedee well will test a total of seven stacked fan
bodies with varying geological chances of success (GCoS) of 9 -
52%. Net prospective Pmean resources are estimated at 68 million
barrels (mmbbls) in a range of 13 - 178 mmbbls.
Drilling, coring and logging operations are expected to take
approximately 30 days. A further release will be made when those
operations are completed.
Current planned drilling order:
1 Zebedee (RKH 24.0%) North Falkland Basin,
Licence PL004b
2 Isobel Deep (RKH North Falkland Basin,
24.0%) Licence PL004a
3 Humpback (Non RKH South Falkland Basin,
well) southern licence area
4 Jayne East (RKH North Falkland Basin,
24.0%) Licence PL004c
5 Chatham (RKH 40.0%) North Falkland Basin,
Licence PL032
6 Second Noble operated South or East Falkland
well Basin, to be decided
The North Falkland Basin wells are anticipated to cost
approximately US$50 million each. As a result of the various carry
arrangements, the total net cash exposure to Rockhopper of the four
wells is estimated at approximately US$25 million. No drill stem
testing is planned during the campaign.
Samuel Moody, CEO, commented:
"We are very pleased to be drilling again in the North Falkland
Basin and to be targeting prospects we first mapped in 2012. This
exciting exploration campaign exposes shareholders to a range of
prospects and risks which in the case of success will add
significantly to the value of the already discovered and appraised
Sea Lion field."
For further information, please contact:
Rockhopper Exploration plc
Tel: (via Vigo Communications) - 020 7016 9571
Sam Moody - Chief Executive
Fiona MacAulay - Chief Operating Officer
Stewart MacDonald - Chief Financial Officer
Canaccord Genuity Limited (NOMAD and Joint Broker)
Tel: 020 7523 8000
Henry Fitzgerald-O'Connor
Liberum Capital (Joint Broker)
Tel: 020 3100 2227
Clayton Bush
Vigo Communications
Tel: 020 7016 9571
Peter Reilly
Patrick d'Ancona
Note regarding Rockhopper oil and gas disclosure
This announcement has been approved by Rockhopper's geological
staff who include Fiona MacAulay (Chief Operating Officer), who is
a Fellow of the Geological Society of London and a Member of the
Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain and American
Association of Petroleum Geologists with over 25 years of
experience in petroleum exploration and management, and who is the
qualified person as defined in the Guidance Note for Mining, Oil
and Gas Companies issued by the London Stock Exchange in respect of
AIM companies. In compiling its resource estimates, Rockhopper has
used the definitions and guidelines as set forth in the 2007
Petroleum Resources Management System approved by the Society of
Petroleum Engineers.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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