North Sea

STRATEGY

Through its 75% owned subsidiary ENS Energy Limited (“ENS”) build a portfolio from initial UK Central North Sea asset base.

  • Appraisal and development of undeveloped fields in UK North Sea, Middle East, North Africa and Europe
  • Targeted farm-ins and license round participation
  • Prospects where the Company can add value with specialist skill-sets
    • Heavy oil, fractured reservoirs, maintain high working interest and operatorship
    • Prudent joint-venturing to manage risk and capital exposure

PROPERTY

  • Quadrant 16, Central North Sea, blocks 16/1a, 16/1b, 16/2c, 16/6c
  • Awarded licences P1500 and P1691, with 100% working interest, in the 24th and 25th bid rounds
  • Close proximity to the Brae-Miller Fields complex
  • Close proximity to existing infrastructure
  • Work program licence P1500
    • 3D seismic reprocessing completed
    • Geological and geophysical evaluation completed
    • Decision to drill deadline November 30, 2009, or relinquish licence
    • Currently seeking farmout partners to participate in an appraisal well up dip from 16/6b-5 oil column
  • Work program licence P1691
    • 3D seismic reprocessing completed
    • Geological and geophysical evaluation completed
    • Decision to drill deadline March 31, 2011, or relinquish licence

RESERVOIR GEOLOGY

  • High quality, Tertiary aged sand reservoir in four way dip closed structure
  • Porosity in excess of 28%, multi-darcy permeability
  • Potential for medium gravity oil up dip from oil discovery well 16/6b-5 drilled by Marathon in 1996 which encountered a 15 meter oil column containing medium gravity oil; other wells have encountered thin oil columns with oil quality in the 20 to 25 degree API gravity range
  • Reservoirs are same formations that produce 22 API oil at West Brae field located approximately 4 kilometers south of target