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Curzon Energy PLC
29 March 2019
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29 March 2019
Curzon Energy Plc
("Curzon" or the "Company")
Texas Gas Project Update
Curzon Energy plc (LON:CZN) the London Stock Exchange listed oil
and gas development company, pursuing a targeted strategy of
upstream North American natural gas appraisal and development
assets, announces further details on its proposed participation in
Pared Energy's Texas Gas Project, first announced on 21 November
2018.
Highlights
-- Curzon intends to participate alongside Pared Energy in the
Texas Gas Project focused on properties covering an approximate
75,000 acres target fairway that provide access to the significant
potential of the multi-stacked Claiborne Group formation
-- Texas Gas Project offers multi-TCF potential with up to
1,000ft of over-pressured stacked pay should all horizons prove
commercial, with expansion potential in Texas up to 250,000
acres
-- Attractive drill-ready opportunity seeking to apply advanced
drilling and completion technologies to known gas bearing horizons
to enhance productivity and ultimate recovery
-- Initial development plans include 1 vertical and 1 horizontal
development well followed by a 3 to 5 well delineation program
-- Expect gas sales can commence immediately upon well testing
-- More than 2 BCF surplus pipeline and processing capacity exists in the region
-- Access to both US & Mexican gas markets as well as a
number of LNG processing and export plants under development across
the east coast of Texas
-- Board believes the Texas Gas Project complements existing
exposure to coal bed methane assets in Oregon
Scott Kaintz, Chief Executive Officer comments:
"This exciting project positions Curzon Energy with a very
attractive entry point to the Texas gas market with a drill-ready
opportunity seeking to apply advanced drilling and completion
technologies to known gas bearing horizons where techniques have
little changed in many years. We also believe it offers a very
complementary position to our existing CBM project in Oregon. We
look forward to completing the negotiations around our
participation with Pared in the Texas Gas Project over the coming
weeks."
Texas Gas Project Overview
The Texas gas project constitutes a plan to develop a multi-TCF
gas position targeting over a 1,000ft of multi-stacked
over-pressured Claiborne Group formation along a 250-mile trend
that constitutes a conventional gas fairway. The target is a
laminated barrier bar sand complex not wholly unlike today's
existing barrier bar islands that can be found along the Texas Gulf
Coast.
The target trend along the Texas Gulf Coast has a cumulative
historic production of 5 TCF of gas and 155 million barrels of oil
since the early 1940s and can be considered a long-established gas
basin. Many vertical wells have been drilled in the Claiborne
formation over the years mostly by smaller, local operators.
The parties believe that the application of modern drilling,
logging, completion & subsurface technologies would allow for
significantly enhanced recoveries and allow assessment of the true
productivity of the 1,000ft stacked play potential.
Historically the Claiborne Group formation has been drilled with
vertical wells in Texas, however, the parties believe the
opportunity exists to link up multiple sands targeted by historical
verticals through the use of horizontal drilling, which has been
utilized with success in similar formations.
The initial project location benefits from access to significant
spare pipeline capacity with three large transmission lines running
through the development acreage. An agreement is already in place
for up to 40 million cubic feet per day of gas (equivalent) of
surplus pipeline capacity for the initial wells.
The location of the initial drilling campaign puts the venture
within easy access to both US & Mexican Markets as well as
number of LNG processing and export plants under development across
the east coast of Texas.
Staged Development Plan Envisaged
It is envisaged the Texas Gas Project will be developed in three
phases with the first phase confirming proof of concept followed by
two development stages.
o Phase 1: Drill and complete 1 x vertical + 1 x horizontal
development wells, test, install facilities, produce and acquire
data in Q2,2019; following successful results, start delineation
efforts and add lease / lease options over an additional more than
15,000 acres.
o Phase 2: Drilling of 3 to 5 delineation wells in the trend;
expand lease position by 50,000 to 75,000 acres
o Phase 3: 20 to 30 well horizontal infill drilling and
expansion
Planned horizontal wells currently envisioned will be 4,000 to
10,000ft laterals with 30 to 75 frac stages.
Curzon Strategy
The board believes that the Texas Gas Project supports its
strategy to increase Curzon's exposure to US-based, high-impact,
onshore gas projects. The Company feels that natural gas will
remain a critical transition fuel as the world's economies move
towards a decarbonized future. With US gas production and demand
expected to grow significantly, US exports of liquified natural gas
("LNG") are also expected to surge. Curzon seeks to offer direct
investor exposure to these significant energy market
developments.
For further information please contact:
Curzon Energy Plc +44 (0) 20 7747 9980
Scott Kaintz
www.curzonenergy.com
SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP +44 (0) 20 3470 0470
Richard Hail
Richard Redmayne
Optiva Securities Limited +44 (0) 20 3137 1902
Christian Dennis
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