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Licence Extensions on PEDL331 and PEDL143
Licence Extensions on PEDL331 and PEDL143.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 5506J UK Oil & Gas PLC 20 August 2019 \n\n UK Oil & Gas PLC\n(\"UKOG\" or the \"Company\")\n \nLicence Extensions on PEDL331 Arreton and PEDL143 \"A24\" Prospect\n \nUK Oil & Gas PLC (London AIM: UKOG) is pleased to announce that the Oil and Gas Authority (\"OGA\") has granted two-year extensions to the initial terms of the Company's operated PEDL331 (UKOG 95%, Isle of Wight, Arreton oil discovery) and PEDL143 (UKOG 67.5%, northern Weald, \"A24\" prospect) licences. The initial terms will now end on 20 July 2023 (PEDL331) and 30 September 2022 (PEDL143), respectively. The Company expects that these extensions will permit its previously reported multiple well appraisal and exploration drilling campaign to be conducted and completed fully within both licences' initial term.\n \nIsle of Wight PEDL331 \"Arreton Oil Discovery\"\n \nThe Isle of Wight PEDL331 Arreton licence is, in the Company's view, one of UKOG's premier appraisal stage assets, which, as per the Company's 2018 Competent Person's Report (\"CPR\"), contains 14.9 million barrels (\"mmbbl\") of UKOG net P50 case recoverable Contingent Resources within the Arreton oil discovery, plus a further 10 mmbbl of net recoverable Prospective Resources in the geological look-alike Arreton South and North prospects. Drilling of the Arreton-3/3z appraisal well and extended flow test is now scheduled to commence in Autumn 2020, subject to the grant of necessary regulatory consents. \n \nAs further set out in the Company's 2018 Re-Admission document, the Arreton South and North prospects contain aggregate P50 Portland oil in place of 77.2 mmbbl, more than twice as much as the Company's flagship Horse Hill Portland oil field (UKOG 85.635% interest). Further significant upside in both prospects is calculated to lie within the underlying Inferior Oolite sequence.\n \nUKOG's subsurface team have also recently identified a further large undrilled anticlinal structure, the Arreton East Prospect, another look-alike to the Arreton discovery and lying further to the east along the same geological trend. Initial mapping shows this feature to be many times larger than both the Arreton oil discovery and Arreton South prospect combined. Further work and potential recoverable resources will be reported in due course.\n...