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Chariot Oil & Gas Ld
07 September 2017
7 September 2017
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited
("Chariot", the "Company" or the "Group")
Operational Update
Rabat Deep Offshore, Morocco
-- Drilling Rig Saipem 12000 secured
-- Drilling to occur shortly after its arrival on location in late Q1 2018
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited (AIM: CHAR), the Atlantic margins
focused oil and gas exploration company, announces the assignment
of a drilling rig for its upcoming RD-1 well which will target the
JP-1 prospect.
Saipem 12000 Drilling Rig
Eni, the operator of the Rabat Deep Offshore licence (Eni 40%,
Woodside 25%, ONHYM 25%, Chariot 10%), has secured the Saipem
12000, a sixth generation ultra-deepwater drillship, for a drilling
programme to include a one-well drilling slot in Rabat Deep
Offshore in Morocco. It is currently anticipated that the rig will
arrive on location in the latter part of Q1 2018 and that the
drilling of the RD-1 well on the JP-1 prospect will commence
shortly thereafter.
The JP-1 Prospect
The JP-1 prospect is a large, four-way dip closed structure of
approximately 200 square km areal extent, with Jurassic carbonate
primary reservoir objectives and an independently audited gross
mean prospective resource estimate of 768mmbbls. As previously
detailed in the announcement of 9 January 2017, Eni partnered with
Chariot in return for a capped carry on the drilling of the JP-1
prospect as well as a carry on other geological and administrative
costs relating to Rabat Deep Offshore and a recovery of Chariot's
investment prior to farm-out.
Larry Bottomley, CEO commented:
"We are pleased to see Eni progress operations on the Rabat Deep
Offshore acreage and secure the high-performance Saipem 12000
drillship to drill the JP-1 prospect, one of Chariot's priority
targets.
JP-1 has the potential to create transformational value in the
success case due to the large scale prospective resources,
excellent commercial contract terms and robust economics. Success
will also materially de-risk other targets we have identified
within our neighbouring Mohammedia and Kenitra permits in which
Chariot holds a 75% interest."
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes
of Article 7 of Regulation 596/2014.
For further information please
contact:
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited
Larry Bottomley, CEO +44 (0)20 7318 0450
finnCap (Nominated Adviser
and Joint Broker)
Matt Goode, Christopher Raggett
(Corporate Finance)
Emily Morris (Corporate Broking) +44 (0)20 7220 0500
Peel Hunt (Joint Broker)
Richard Crichton, Ross Allister,
Chris Burrows +44 (0)20 7418 8900
EMC(2) Advisory (PR/IR Contact)
Natalia Erikssen +44 (0)78 0944 0929
NOTES TO EDITORS
ABOUT CHARIOT
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited is an independent oil and gas
exploration group. It holds licences covering two blocks in
Namibia, three blocks in Morocco and four blocks in the
Barreirinhas Basin offshore Brazil. All of these blocks are
currently in the exploration phase.
The ordinary shares of Chariot Oil & Gas Limited are
admitted to trading on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange
under the symbol 'CHAR'.
ABOUT SAIPEM
Saipem is one of the global leaders in drilling services, as
well as in the engineering, procurement, construction and
installation of pipelines and complex projects, onshore and
offshore, in the oil & gas industry. Saipem has distinctive
competences in operations in harsh environments, remote areas and
deepwater.
ABOUT SAIPEM 12000 DRILLING RIG
Saipem 12000 is a 6th generation ultra deepwater drillship
designed by Samsung and built by Samsung Heavy Industries in 2010.
It has a variable deck load of 20,000t, four NOV knuckle boom
cranes, a helideck and crew facilities to accommodate 200 people in
living quarters. For further information:
http://www.saipem.com/SAIPEM_en_IT/scheda/Vessels/Saipem+12000.page
ABOUT RABAT DEEP
The Rabat Deep Offshore licence area is located approximately
30km offshore in water depths ranging from 150m to 3,500m. In July
2014 Chariot announced the successful farm-out of Rabat Deep to
Australia's largest independent E&P company, Woodside, who took
up a 25% working interest in the licence in return for paying all
back costs and some additional future technical work.
On 30 March 2016, Chariot entered into a farm-out agreement with
Eni who acquired operatorship and a 40% working interest in Rabat
Deep. In return for this equity transfer, Chariot benefits from a
carry to an agreed cap above estimated drilling costs on the JP-1
prospect, a carry for other geological and administrative costs
relating to work commitments in the next licence period and a
contribution which equated to Chariot's investment to date.
ABOUT JP-1 PROSPECT
The JP-1 prospect is a large (>200km(2)), faulted, four-way
dip closure located in water depths ranging from 1,000m to 1,400m,
and lies adjacent to the predicted mature Lower Jurassic source
kitchens. This large trap was first identified on reprocessed
legacy 2D seismic data and subsequent proprietary 3D seismic data
improved confidence in the trap, its reservoir potential and the
recognition of secondary targets that overlie the main objective.
This work was supplemented by a geochemical coring programme which
provided further evidence for a working petroleum system. We
believe that the farm-in of two major industry players at each
investment phase has validated the prospectivity identified by
Chariot's in-house team.
Our Rabat Deep portfolio contains a further six Jurassic leads.
Success in JP-1 would materially de-risk this prospectivity and
offer significant follow-on exploration potential in the
neighbouring Mohammedia and Kenitra areas for which Chariot secured
exploration permits in June 2016 and February 2017
respectively.
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