5
June 2024
ECO (ATLANTIC) OIL & GAS
LTD.
("Eco,"
"Eco Atlantic," "Company," or together with its subsidiaries, the
"Group")
Eco Atlantic Farms into
20,000km2 Block 1 Offshore Orange Basin South Africa /
Namibia Border to hold 75% Operated Interest
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas
Ltd. (AIM: ECO, TSX ‐ V: EOG), the oil and gas exploration company focused on the
offshore Atlantic Margins, announces the Farm-In into Block 1
Offshore South Africa Orange Basin. Through its 100% owned
subsidiary Azinam South Africa Limited ("Azinam"), the Company will farm-in and
acquire a 75% Working Interest ("WI") from Tosaco Energy (Proprietary)
Limited ("Tosaco") and will
become Operator of a new Exploration Right (the "Acquisition"). Tosaco intends to
transfer its remaining 25% Interest to OrangeBasin Oil and Gas (Proprietary) Limited - a newly formed South African entity with a
Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment
("B-BBEE") rating.
About Block 1
Acquisition:
Block 1 is 19,929km2 in
area and is located on the Namibian Border in South Africa. The
triangular shaped block is located offshore in the Orange Basin.
The Eastern side of the block is approximately 174km off the South
African shoreline, and the block reaches out some 263km West into
deep water in the Orange Basin.
Terms of the 75% WI Farm-in
Acquisition are as follows: US$150k payable upon signing, US$225k
payable upon issuance of Section 11 (Government title transfer) and
US$375k payable upon a TSX-V/AIM compliant Resource Report to be
commissioned by Eco. The Company will carry the remaining 25%
Interest through the Budget and Work Program for the first three
years up to an agreed sum of US$2.3 million of a total work
program.
The block has significant 2D and 3D
seismic data already completed and no additional seismic
acquisition or drilling of wells is planned in the three-year
carried period. During this period, Eco will complete the
interpretation and analysis required for its planned Work Program
with its in-house exploration team. The Farm-in is subject, inter
alia, to normal Governmental approvals and no field activity is
currently planned that requires environmental
permitting.
Block 2B Relinquishment:
Further, the Company confirms that
it is relinquishing its 50% WI Operated offshore Block 2B in South
Africa where it drilled its 2022 Gazania-1 well offsetting the AJ-1
oil discovery. The Company has completed all necessary
documentation, and environmental audits, and has informed the
Petroleum Agency of South Africa ("PASA"), being the regulator for the
Government of South Africa. Eco's board considers Block 2B a
non-core asset in the portfolio given the Company's interests in
Namibia, Block 3B/4B and Block 1 in SA and in Guyana.
Following acceptance by the PASA of this relinquishment, the
Company will have no further liability in respect of Block
2B.
Colin Kinley, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Eco
Atlantic, commented:
"The Orange Basin continues to prove
to be one of the newest and most prolific plays in the world and is
running similar statistics to our Guyana play. Following completion
of this Farm-in, Eco will have one of the largest blocks in the
entire Orange Basin. This is a strategic play for Eco that we have
worked on over the past year, focussing on both Oil and Gas
potential, and where we believe there are significant near shore
prospective gas resources. There are inboard gas discoveries on the
block, Kudu to the North, and multiple discoveries in the Ibhubesi
field to the South. With the reach of the block some 250km out into
the Atlantic, this puts the West end of the Block into highly
prospective opportunities for oil being just South and on trend
with Shell's Graff discovery and Galp's Mopane discoveries, and
North of our 3B/4B Block oil targets recently farmed out to
TotalEnergies and QatarEnergy."
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Figure 1: Eco Atlantic's
South Africa Acreage
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**ENDS**
For
more information, please visit www.ecooilandgas.com or contact the
following:
Eco
Atlantic Oil and Gas
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c/o Celicourt +44 (0) 20 8434
2754
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Gil Holzman, CEO
Colin Kinley, COO
Alice Carroll, Executive
Director
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Strand Hanson (Financial & Nominated
Adviser)
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+44 (0) 20 7409 3494
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James Harris
James Bellman
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Berenberg (Broker)
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+44 (0) 20 3207 7800
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Matthew Armitt
Detlir Elezi
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Celicourt (PR)
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+44 (0) 20 7770 6424
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Mark Antelme
Jimmy Lea
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The information contained within this announcement is deemed
by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under
the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 as it forms part of
United Kingdom domestic law by virtue of the European Union
(Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended).
About Eco Atlantic:
Eco Atlantic is a TSX-V and
AIM-quoted Atlantic Margin-focused oil and gas exploration company
with offshore license interests in Guyana, Namibia, and South
Africa. Eco aims to
deliver material value for its stakeholders through its role in the
energy transition to explore for low carbon intensity oil and gas
in stable emerging markets close to
infrastructure.
Offshore Guyana, in the proven
Guyana-Suriname Basin, the Company operates a 100% Working Interest
in the 1,354 km2 Orinduik Block. In Namibia, the Company
holds Operatorship and an 85% Working Interest in four offshore
Petroleum Licences: PELs: 97, 98, 99, and
100, representing a combined area of 28,593
km2 in the Walvis Basin. Offshore South Africa,
Eco holds a 20% Working Interest in Block
3B/4B, in the Orange Basin, totalling some
20,643km2.