North Kelsey Planning Update

RNS Number : 6971E

Egdon Resources PLC

14 March 2022

 

  14 March 2022

EGDON RESOURCES PLC

 ("Egdon" or "the Company")

North Kelsey Planning Update

Egdon Resources plc (AIM:EDR) advises that its application to extend the existing planning permission to drill the North Kelsey-1 exploration well was refused at today's meeting of the Lincolnshire County Council Planning Committee.

Commenting on the decision, Mark Abbott, Managing Director of Egdon Resources plc, said:

"The decision of the Planning Committee is disappointing given the clear current need for the UK to secure further indigenous supplies of energy to reduce its reliance on imports, the compelling case presented and the positive recommendation of Lincolnshire County Council's Planning Officer. Given this, we will bring forward an appeal against this decision without delay and will provide further updates in due course."

For further information please contact: 

Egdon Resources plc

Mark Abbott, Martin Durham  01256 702 292

Buchanan

Ben Romney, Jon Krinks  020 7466 5000

Nominated Adviser & Joint Broker - WH Ireland Limited 

Chris Hardie, Megan Liddell  020 7220 1666

Joint Broker & Financial Advisors - VSA Capital Limited

Andrew Monk (Corporate Broking)  020 3005 5000

Andrew Raca (Corporate Finance)

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014 ("MAR"). Upon the publication of this announcement via Regulatory Information Service ("RIS"), this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

Notes to Editors:

Egdon Resources plc (LSE: EDR) is an established exploration and production company focused on the hydrocarbon-producing basins of the onshore UK. 

Egdon holds interests in 39 licences in the UK and has an active programme of exploration, appraisal and development within its portfolio of oil and gas assets.  Egdon is an approved operator in the UK.  Egdon was formed in 1997 and listed on AIM in December 2004.

North Kelsey

The PEDL241 Licence Interests are:

Egdon Resources U.K. Limited   50% (Operator)

Union Jack Oil plc  50%

The North Kelsey Prospect has been mapped from 3-Dimensional seismic data and has potential for oil  in up to four stacked conventional Carboniferous reservoir targets: the Chatsworth Grit, Beacon Hill Flags, Raventhorpe Sandstone and Santon Sandstone. Egdon has calculated the Prospective Resources to range from 4.66 million barrels up to 8.47 million barrels, with a Mean Resource volume of 6.47 million barrels.

For clarity the operations at the site will not involve the process of hydraulic "fracking" for shale gas or shale oil either now or in the future. This part of Lincolnshire does not have the specific rock-formation types that contain shale gas as confirmed by the British Geological Survey in 2013.

 

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