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Extension of 100%-owned offshore Ireland Licences
Extension of 100%-owned offshore Ireland Licences.
About this update from Europa Oil & Gas (holdings) Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nEuropa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc / Index: AIM / Epic: EOG / Sector: Oil & Gas\n\n02 August 2016\n\nEuropa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc (‘Europa’ or ‘the Company’)\n\n Extension of 100%-owned FEL 2/13 and 3/13 offshore Ireland Licences\n\nEuropa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the AIM quoted oil and gas exploration, development and production company focused on Europe, is pleased to announce it has received notification from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (‘DCCAE’) that Phase 1 of Frontier Exploration Licences (‘FEL’) 2/13 and 3/13 in the South Porcupine Basin has been extended by one year to 4 July 2017. This will allow Europa to mature existing prospects and perform detailed mapping of all potential prospective levels on both licences, including the Pre-Rift, Syn-Rift and Tertiary plays, whilst it continues to seek a farm out partner for drilling.\n\nBased on 2,500km2 of proprietary 3D seismic data, which was acquired in 2013, Europa has mapped gross mean un-risked Prospective Resources of approximately 1.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent (‘boe’) in FEL 3/13 in three early Cretaceous submarine fan prospects and 595 million boe in FEL 2/13 in early Cretaceous turbidite channel prospects. Charged by mature Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous source rocks and contained in stratigraphic traps with elements of structural closure, these reservoirs are analogous to the Cretaceous play in the equatorial Atlantic Margin province which has delivered the Jubilee and Mahogany oil fields.\n\nThe 12 month extension for both licences will also enable the Company to undertake further technical analysis and mapping of potential Pre-rift and early Post-rift plays, and also generate regional paleo-geographic models for the Pre-Rift, Syn-Rift and Tertiary that will enable reservoir development and reservoir quality to be predicted.\n\nEuropa has also already mapped three Pre-rift prospects in Licensing Option (‘LO’) 16/2 with combined gross mean unrisked prospective resources of 895 mmboe, as previously announced on 12 February 2016 and 2 March 2016. LO 16/2 adjoins the eastern boundary of FEL 3/13 and both licences are covered by Europa’s proprietary 3D seismic acquired in 2013. The Company believes that at least one of the Pre-rift prospects in LO...