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16 February 2023
UPLAND RESOURCES LIMITED
(“Upland” or the “Company”)
Competent Person’s Report on UK License P2478 (“Dunrobin”)
Upland Resources Limited (LSE: UPL) is pleased to announce that a copy of a Competent Person’s Report (“CPR”) prepared by the RPS Group (“RPS”) on UKCS License P2478 for Licence Administrator Reabold Resources Plc, on behalf of the Joint Venture Partners (“JV Partners”), in which Upland has a 32% non-operated working interest, can be accessed by link HERE and will be published shortly on the Company’s website at: www.upland.energy
Bolhassan Di, Upland Chairman and CEO commented:
“The independent evaluation of the Dunrobin prospect conducted by RPS group on behalf of the JV Partners has helped validate the material resource potential of the licence and is an essential step in the farmout campaign which is already in-process and which is thus far attracting interest from other industry parties.
The Dunrobin West prospect, proposed as the location of the first exploration well on the licence, would also target 119mmboe aggregate gross unrisked Pmean prospective resources[1] (Upland having a 32% non-operated interest); success at Dunrobin would also significantly derisk the analogous Dunrobin Central, Dunrobin East and Golespie prospects all also hosted within the P2478 licence.
We would like to extend our thanks to our JV Partners, Reabold as Licence Administrator and Baron as lead on the accelerated Phase A work programme and we look forward to continuing the farm-out campaign with them.”
CPR details for UK License P2478 (“Dunrobin”)
The CPR has been prepared in accordance with the June 2018 Petroleum Resources Management System (“SPE PRMS”) as the standard for reporting. A summary of the gross and net prospective resources is given in the table below.
Key Points
- 201 mmboe[1] aggregate gross unrisked[2] Pmean Prospective Resources on licence P2478
- The Dunrobin West prospect (“Dunrobin West”), agreed by the JV to be the proposed location of the first exploration well on the licence, would target 119mmboe gross unrisked Pmean prospective resources aggregated across the Jurassic and Triassic stacked targets[3]
- 34% Geological Probability of Success (Pg) on Dunrobin West Jurassic primary target
- Additional secondary Triassic target, which along with the Jurassic can be tested by a single vertical borehole, included in formal resource assessment for the first time with a Pg of 12%
- Dry hole drilling costs to a total depth of 800 metres estimated to be £8.6m gross
- Dunrobin West geologically analogous to the Beatrice fields which produced c.170mmboe
- Success at Dunrobin West would significantly de-risk Dunrobin Central & East and Golspie analogous prospects
- CPR aggregate net unrisked Pmean prospective resources on licence P2478 of 64.3mmboe for Upland
Prospective Resources
The table below summarises RPS’s independent assessment of Gross Prospective Resources, from which are derived the Net Prospective Resources attributable to Upland’s 32% effective interest, wholly within the P2478 licence areas. Totals are by arithmetic summation.
| Prospective Resources | Gross Attributable to Licence | Net Attributable to Upland Resources | Risk Factor | Licence Administrator | ||||||
| Low Estimate | Best Estimate | High Estimate | Mean Estimate | Low Estimate | Best Estimate | High Estimate | Mean Estimate | |||
| (1U) | (2U) | (3U) | (1U) | (2U) | (3U) | |||||
| Oil (mmbbl) | ||||||||||
| Dunrobin West Jurassic | 7 | 42 | 168 | 71 | 2.2 | 13.4 | 53.8 | 22.7 | 34% | Reabold Resources North Sea |
| Dunrobin West Triassic | 7 | 34 | 98 | 45 | 2.2 | 10.9 | 31.4 | 14.4 | 12% | “ |
| Dunrobin C&E Jurassic | 1 | 8 | 67 | 22 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 21.4 | 7.0 | 31% | “ |
| Dunrobin C&E Triassic | 1 | 9 | 56 | 22 | 0.3 | 2.9 | 17.9 | 7.0 | 14% | “ |
| Golspie Jurassic | 4 | 12 | 27 | 14 | 1.3 | 3.8 | 8.6 | 4.5 | 27% | “ |
| Golspie Triassic | 7 | 20 | 43 | 23 | 2.2 | 6.4 | 13.8 | 7.4 | 12% | “ |
| Total Oil (mmbbl) | 27 | 125 | 459 | 197 | 8.6 | 40.0 | 146.9 | 63.0 | ||
| Associated & Non-associated Gas (bcf) | ||||||||||
| Dunrobin West Jurassic | 2 | 7 | 22 | 10 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 7.0 | 3.2 | 34% | Reabold Resources North Sea |
| Dunrobin West Triassic | 1 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 3.5 | 1.6 | 12% | “ |
| Dunrobin C&E Jurassic | 0.1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 31% | “ |
| Dunrobin C&E Triassic | 0.1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 14% | “ |
| Golspie Jurassic | 0.4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 27% | “ |
| Golspie Triassic | 0.8 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 12% | “ |
| Total Gas (bcf) | 4.4 | 16 | 54 | 24 | 1.4 | 5.1 | 17.3 | 7.7 | ||
| Oil equivalent (mmboe) | ||||||||||
| Dunrobin West Jurassic | 7 | 43 | 172 | 73 | 2.3 | 13.8 | 54.9 | 23.3 | 34% | Reabold Resources North Sea |
| Dunrobin West Triassic | 7 | 35 | 100 | 46 | 2.3 | 11.1 | 31.9 | 14.7 | 12% | “ |
| Dunrobin C&E Jurassic | 1 | 8 | 68 | 22 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 21.8 | 7.1 | 31% | “ |
| Dunrobin C&E Triassic | 1 | 9 | 57 | 22 | 0.3 | 2.9 | 18.2 | 7.1 | 14% | “ |
| Golspie Jurassic | 4 | 12 | 28 | 14 | 1.3 | 3.9 | 8.8 | 4.6 | 27% | “ |
| Golspie Triassic | 7 | 20 | 44 | 24 | 2.3 | 6.5 | 14.0 | 7.5 | 12% | “ |
| Total Oil equivalent (mmboe) | 28 | 128 | 468 | 201 | 8.9 | 40.9 | 149.8 | 64.3 | ||
Notes:
- [1] The unrisked aggregation performed by the Company assumes that all prospects at all levels are successful.
- 2 The CPR reports oil and gas Prospective Resources. The oil equivalent value of the gas resources has been estimated by the Company using a factor of 1 barrel of oil to 5.8 thousand cubic feet of gas.
- 3 The unrisked aggregation performed by the Company assumes that all prospects at all levels are successful.
- 4 The unrisked aggregation of Dunrobin West was performed by the Company. The volumes were presented for each reservoir in the CPR and, at the Company request, were not aggregated probabilistically.
- Company has aggregated P90, P50, P10 and Mean values This is not statistically correct, values may not sum exactly due to rounding factors.
- “Gross Attributable” are 100% of the resources attributable to the licence whilst “Net Attributable” are those attributable to Upland’s effective interest in the licence (32%) before economic limit test.
- Includes a mix of associated gas and non-associated gas from Dunrobin West Gas Cap, all others are associated gas only.
- Mean is defined as the arithmetic average of successful outcomes.
**ENDS**
For further information, please contact:
| Upland Resources Limited
Bolhassan Di, Chairman and CEO |
Tel: +60 198 861 919
|
| Optiva Securities – Broker
Christian Dennis |
Tel: +44 (0)20 3137 1903 [email protected]
|
| Flowcomms – IR Contact
Sasha Sethi
|
Tel: +44 (0)7891 677441 |
Glossary
| bcf | Billion standard cubic feet of gas. |
| Best Estimate or 2U | Denotes the mid estimate qualifying as Prospective Resources. Reflects a volume estimate that there is a 50% probability that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the estimate. |
| Risk factor or GPoS | [The estimated geological probability of success that exploration activities will confirm the existence of a significant accumulation of potentially recoverable petroleum. |
| High Estimate or 3U | Denotes the high estimate qualifying as Prospective Resources. Reflects a volume estimate that there is a 10% probability that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the estimate. |
| Low Estimate or 1U | Denotes the low estimate qualifying as Prospective Resources. Reflects a volume estimate that there is a 90% probability that the quantities actually recovered will equal or exceed the estimate. |
| Mean or Pmean | Reflects a mid-case volume estimate of resource derived using probabilistic methodology. This is the mean of the probability distribution for the resource estimates and may be skewed by resource numbers with relatively low probabilities. |
| mmbbl | Million barrels of oil. |
| mmboe | Million barrels of oil equivalent. Volume derived by dividing the estimate of the volume of natural gas in billion cubic feet by six in order to convert it to an equivalent in million barrels of oil and, where relevant, adding this to an estimate of the volume of oil in millions of barrels. |
| Prospective Resources | Quantities of petroleum that are estimated to exist originally in naturally occurring reservoirs, as of a given date. Crude oil in-place, natural gas in-place, and natural bitumen in-place are defined in the same manner. |
| SPE PRMS | The Society of Petroleum Engineers’ (“SPE”) Petroleum Resources Management System (“PRMS”): a system developed for consistent and reliable definition, classification, and estimation of hydrocarbon resources prepared by the Oil and Gas Reserves Committee of SPE and approved by the SPE Board in June 2018 following input from six sponsoring societies: the World Petroleum Council, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, and the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts. Quantities of petroleum estimated, as of a given date, to be potentially recoverable from undiscovered accumulations by application of future development projects. The total quantity of petroleum that is estimated to exist originally in naturally occurring reservoirs, as of a given date. Crude oil in-place, natural gas in-place, and natural bitumen in-place are defined in the same manner. |