Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd Deferring Filings Following CSA Temporary Relief (8570H)
March 27 2020 - 5:07AM
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RNS Number : 8570H
Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd
27 March 2020
Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited Electing to Defer Filings
Following CSA Temporary Relief in Light of Coronavirus
Calgary, Canada, March 27, 2020 - Canadian Overseas Petroleum
Limited ("COPL" or the "Company") (XOP: CSE) & (COPL: LSE ), an
international oil and gas exploration and development company
focused on sub-Sahara Africa, today announces that following the
recent relief granted by the Canadian Securities Administrators, it
has elected to defer the filing of its Year-End 2019 documents and
First Quarter 2020 documents.
Due to the challenges caused by the Coronavirus crisis, the
Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) offered guidance on March
18, 2020 saying it will provide temporary relief from some
regulatory filings required to be made on or before June 1, 2020.
The blanket relief will provide a 45-day extension for periodic
filings. The CSA stated that issuers choosing to rely on this
exemption and that are complying with the conditions of the relief
will not need to file applications for management cease-trade
orders as they will not be noted in default.
About the Company:
Canadian Overseas Petroleum is actively pursuing opportunities
in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa in partnership with Shoreline
Energy International Limited ("Shoreline") as part of its strategy
to generate stable cash flow from secure offshore and onshore
assets. The Company and Shoreline, through their jointly held
affiliated company Shoreline Canadian Overseas Petroleum
Development Corporation ("ShoreCan"), have acquired 80% of the
share capital and have taken over the management of Essar
Exploration and Production Limited (Nigeria) ("Nigerian Affiliate"
or the "Affiliate"). The Company's Nigerian Affiliate has applied
to the concessionaire NNPC for formal consent to the change in
control of the Nigerian Affiliate. The Affiliate holds an
attractive oil appraisal and development project in shallow to
mid-water offshore Nigeria on its 100% holding in OPL 226. Drilling
of the first appraisal well is planned to commence in 2020.
ShoreCan is continuing building a portfolio of exploration and
development assets in sub-Saharan Africa. To date, ShoreCan has
taken a position in Nigeria and has been indicatively awarded an
exploration license onshore Mozambique in the 5th Licensing Round
adjacent to the producing Pande-Temane Gas and light oil field
complex.
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Arthur Millholland, President & CEO
Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited
Tel: + 1 (403) 262 5441
Cathy Hume
CHF Investor Relations
Tel: +1 (416) 868 1079 ext. 231
Email: cathy@chfir.com
Charles Goodwin
Yellow Jersey PR Limited
Tel: +44 (0) 20 3004 9512
Email: copl@yellowjerseypr.com
Damon Heath
Shard Capital Partners LLP
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7186 9952
The Common Shares are listed under the symbol "XOP" on the CSE
and under the symbol "COPL" on the London Stock Exchange.
This news release contains forward-looking statements. The use
of any of the words "initial, "scheduled", "can", "will", "prior
to", "estimate", "anticipate", "believe", "should", "forecast",
"future", "continue", "may", "expect", and similar expressions are
intended to identify forward-looking statements. The
forward-looking statements contained herein are based on certain
key expectations and assumptions made by the Company, including,
but not limited to, the ability to raise the necessary funding for
continued operations, delays or changes in plans with respect to
exploration or development projects or capital expenditures.
Although the Company believes that the expectations and assumptions
on which the forward-looking statements are based are reasonable,
undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking
statements since the Company can give no assurance that they will
prove to be correct since forward-looking statements address future
events and conditions, by their very nature they involve inherent
risks and uncertainties most of which are beyond the control of
Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd. For example, the uncertainty of
reserve estimates, the uncertainty of estimates and projections
relating to production, cost overruns, health and safety issues,
political and environmental risks, commodity price and exchange
rate fluctuations, changes in legislation affecting the oil and gas
industry could cause actual results to vary materially from those
expressed or implied by the forward-looking information.
Forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made
as of the date hereof and Canadian Overseas Petroleum undertakes no
obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking
statements or information, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise, unless so required by applicable
securities laws.
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