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13 July 2017
Europa Oil &
Gas (Holdings) plc (‘Europa’ or ‘the Company’)
Wressle Planning
Appeal Update
Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the UK and Ireland focussed oil and gas exploration,
development and production company, notes today’s update from Egdon
Resources (‘Egdon’) regarding its intention to appeal the decision
of North Lincolnshire Council’s Planning Committee of 3 July 2017 to refuse planning consent for the
development of the Wressle Oil Field (‘Wressle’) on PEDLs 180 and
PEDL 182 (‘the Licences’) for a second time. Europa has a
30%* working interest in Wressle alongside Egdon (operator, 25%),
Celtique Energie Petroleum Ltd (30%, after the sale of 3.33% to
Union Jack Oil plc which is subject to OGA approval), and Union
Jack Oil plc (15%, following the above sale).
Notices advertising Egdon’s intention to appeal will be
displayed in the local parishes and published in the local paper
over the coming week in accordance with planning law. An
appeal will be submitted without delay shortly afterwards. Egdon
will also request that the Planning Inspectorate co-joins this new
appeal with its appeal against the original refusal of planning
permission of 11 January 2017. The first appeal is currently
scheduled for early November
2017.
Egdon also advises that it will separately appeal the Council’s
decision of the 3 July 2017 meeting
to refuse application PA/2017/268 which requested a twelve month
extension to the existing planning consent for the site at
Wressle.
Europa’s CEO, Hugh Mackay,
said: “Following a comprehensive consultation and evaluation
process, both applications to develop Wressle were recommended for
approval by the Council’s Head of Development Management and
Building Control, while an environmental permit from the
Environment Agency for the proposed development of the site has
already been issued. The partners in the Licences believe the
case for bringing Wressle into production is strong and we look
forward to providing further updates on the appeal process in due
course.
“In the meantime, we were pleased to note that Providence
Resources has begun drilling operations on the Druid and Drombeg
prospects in the South Porcupine Basin offshore Ireland. With
the recent arrival of a number of major operators to the region, we
believe this well will be the first of many to be drilled over the
next few years. Success at this or any other well in Atlantic
Ireland will have positive read across for our industry-leading
portfolio of licences offshore Ireland where we have already identified 32
prospects and leads in a diverse range of six play types and three
basins across all seven of our licences.”
*On 24 November 2016, Europa
announced it had signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement (‘SPA’) with
Upland Resources (UK Onshore) Limited (‘Upland’) in relation to a
10% interest in PEDLs 180 and 182. Completion of the SPA,
which is subject to approval from the Oil & Gas Authority,
would result in Europa retaining a 20% interest in the
Licences.
* * ENDS * *
For further information please visit www.europaoil.com or
contact:
Hugh Mackay |
Europa |
+ 44 (0) 20 7224 3770 |
Phil Greenhalgh |
Europa |
+ 44 (0) 20 7224 3770 |
Matt Goode |
finnCap Ltd |
+ 44 (0) 20 7220 0500 |
Simon Hicks |
finnCap Ltd |
+ 44 (0) 20 7220 0500 |
Emily Morris |
finnCap Ltd |
+ 44 (0) 20 7220 0500 |
Frank Buhagiar |
St Brides Partners Ltd |
+ 44 (0) 20 7236 1177 |
Susie Geliher |
St Brides Partners Ltd |
+ 44 (0) 20 7236 1177 |
Notes
Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc has a diversified portfolio
of multi-stage hydrocarbon assets that includes production,
exploration and development interests, in countries that are
politically stable, have transparent licensing processes, and offer
attractive terms. In 2016 Europa produced 123 boepd.
Its highly prospective exploration projects include the Wressle
development (targeting production start-up in early 2017 at up to
500 bopd gross) in the UK and seven licences offshore Ireland with the potential to host gross mean
un-risked prospective and indicative resources of more than 4
billion barrels oil equivalent and 1.5 tcf gas across all seven
licences.
Qualified Person Review
This release has been reviewed by Hugh
Mackay, Chief Executive of Europa, who is a petroleum
geologist with 30 years' experience in petroleum exploration and a
member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain, American Association of
Petroleum Geologists and Fellow of the Geological Society. Mr
Mackay has consented to the inclusion of the technical information
in this release in the form and context in which it appears.