Victoria Oil & Gas PLC Customer Connections and Drilling Update, Cameroon (6705S)
December 23 2016 - 2:00AM
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RNS Number : 6705S
Victoria Oil & Gas PLC
23 December 2016
23rd December 2016
Victoria Oil & Gas Plc
("VOG" or "the Company")
Thermal Customer Connections and Drilling Update, Cameroon
The Company is pleased to provide an update on both the gas
pipeline expansion and ongoing drilling programme in Douala,
Cameroon.
Pipeline Extension
Gaz du Cameroun S.A. ("GDC"), the Company's Cameroon gas
producing and distribution subsidiary, has successfully completed
both the Phase II & Phase III of the Bonaberi pipeline
extension programme. GDC has laid a total of 15km of gas pipeline,
including spur lines and metering points to seven new customers.
Three of the new customers are now consuming gas for thermal
applications. The remaining four thermal customers are scheduled to
commission their burners during Q1 2017. The estimated consumption
from the seven new customers will be 600,000 scf/d.
The Bonaberi extension of the central pipeline is part of the
Company strategy to provide gas to the Western industrial area
which is becoming a new hub for industrial developments utilising
Douala's port, power and road networks. GDC has established itself
as an important supplier of energy to industry either through
thermal gas supply or via gas to power and had anticipated the
Bonaberi growth and will be able to meet the growing gas demand in
this area.
Customers currently online or scheduled to be online in January,
all using gas for thermal use, include:
-- Maya & C Palm oil refinery
-- OK Foods Biscuit and sweet manufacturer
-- Agrocam Specialists in poultry hatchery, egg and corrugated carton packaging.
-- NAYA Food processing
-- BATOULA Plastic processing
-- BOCOM Car battery recycling and steel products
-- Camaco Cocoa processing
Drilling Update
Drilling of wells La-107 and La-108 is continuing and GDC is
working with its contractors to make up for the delayed start to
drilling primarily due to lightning strikes during rig up.
The Company is pleased to announce that GDC has successfully
drilled and cased the 17 1/2 " section of La-107 to 1004 m and we
are preparing to drill the 12 1/4 " section to 1600m where we will
set the 95/8" production casing prior to drilling the reservoir
section in 8 1/2 " hole.
The 17 1/2 " section of La-108 has also been drilled and cased
to 1173m and its 12 1/4 " section will be drilled after the 12 1/4
" section of La-107 is completed.
The 2016/17 drilling campaign at Logbaba is designed around a
'batch drilling' approach. As a well is drilled the equipment,
drilling fluids, drilling services and specialist personnel
required vary for each hole section. In a batch drilling programme
the rig is moved back and forth between the wells, progressing
through all the hole sections until the well is completed, which
allows for a more efficient and cost effective utilisation of the
various services and personnel for each hole section. The Komako 1
rail mounted drilling rig is designed for this type of
operation.
The gas bearing target horizons from which it is anticipated
both new wells will produce are in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian
and Santonian) Logbaba Formation, which is a thick sequence of
interbedded sands and shales found at depths between 1,700m and
3,200m below the surface.
This announcement contains inside information.
For further information, please visit www.victoriaoilandgas.com
or contact:
Victoria Oil & Gas Plc
Kevin Foo/Ahmet Dik/Laurence Read Tel: +44 (0) 20 7921 8820
Strand Hanson Limited
Rory Murphy / Stuart Faulkner Tel: +44 (0) 20 7409 3494
Shore Capital Stockbrokers Limited (Joint Broker)
Mark Percy / Toby Gibbs (corporate finance) Tel: +44 (0) 207 408 4090
Jerry Keen (corporate broking)
FirstEnergy Capital LLP (Joint Broker)
Jonathan Wright/David van Erp Tel: +44 (0) 207 448 0200
Bell Pottinger
Charles Stewart / Zara de Belder Tel: +44 (0) 20 3 772 2499
Notes to Editors
About Victoria Oil & Gas Plc
Victoria Oil & Gas (VOG.L) is a gas utility company.
The Company's subsidiary, Gaz du Cameroun S.A. ("GDC") owns a
60% participating interest and operates the onshore Logbaba Gas
Project. The Logbaba Gas Project supplies cost effective, clean and
reliable natural gas to industries in the Douala region of
Cameroon. RSM Production Corporation, an affiliate of Grynberg
Petroleum Company of Denver, Colorado holds the remaining 40%
participating interest. In addition, VOG has recently been assigned
a 75% participating interest in the Matanda block, which neighbours
the Logbaba block. The remaining 25% participating interest is held
by AFEX.
VOG also holds 100% of the West Medvezhye oil and gas
exploration project near Nadym, Russia. Given the challenging
economic environment in Russia, the Group has fully impaired the
West Medvezhye assets.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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