Updated CPR for the Aje Field and Publication of Annual Statement of Reserves
Tuesday 1 May 2018
Panoro Energy ASA announced the release of its 2017 Annual Statement of Reserves (the “ASR”) incorporating the preliminary results of an updated Competent Persons Report (the "CPR”) on its Aje field located in OML 113, offshore western Nigeria.
The results of the updated CPR have been provided to Panoro by the independent reserves auditor AGR TRACS International Limited. This updated oil reserves review, as of 1stJanuary 2018, has benefitted from the latest seismic data, the results of the Aje-5 workover as well as its related sidetrack campaign and subsequent completion in the Turonian oil rim, the production history from the field start-up and the recently submitted Turonian Gas Field Development Plan (“FDP”).
As a result of the submission of the FDP, the Turonian resources at Aje have now been categorized by AGR TRACS as Reserves Justified for Development.
AGR TRACS has certified the total gross recoverable reserves at Aje as follows:
- Proved (1P) reserves of 78.2 MMboe
- Proved + Probable (2P) reserves of 127.1 MMboe
- Proved + Probable + Possible (3P) reserves of 215 MMboe
- AGR TRACS has calculated Panoro's net entitlement derived from the total gross recoverable reserves, as follows:
- Proved (1P) reserves of 12.1 MMboe
- Proved + Probable (2P) reserves of 20.0 MMboe
- Proved + Probable + Possible (3P) reserves of 30.9 MMboe
- The revised net 2P reserves of 20.0 MMboe at Aje is a significant increase compared to Panoro’s end of year 2016 Annual Statement of Reserves, which reported net 2P reserves of 3.1 MMboe at Aje. This material change is mainly a result of the reclassification of 19.6 MMboe of 2C Contingent Resources as net 2P reserves combined with a reduction in net 2P reserves of 2.6 MMBOE due to 2017 production and AGR TRACS review of the Aje oil reserves.
In addition to these reserves AGR TRACS has also certified the total gross contingent resources at Aje, as follows:
- Low estimates of Contingent resources (1C) of 4 MMboe
- Best estimates of Contingent resources (2C) of 9 MMboe
- High estimates of Contingent resources (3C) of 17.5 MMboe
- Panoro’s reserves at Dussafu in the 2017 ASR remain identical to those reported in January 2018 and extracted from the CPR provided by Netherland, Sewell & Associates Inc. (“NSAI”). NSAI has estimated gross Proved + Probable (2P) reserves of 23.5 MMboe at the Tortue field with a net entitlement to Panoro of 1.55 MMboe.
As of 31st December 2017, total proved (1P) reserves net to Panoro were 13.2 million barrels of oil (“MMboe"), total proved + probable (2P) reserves were 21.6 MMboe and total proved, probable + possible (3P) reserves were 32.7 MMboe. Total contingent (2C) resources net to Panoro were approximately 2.6 MMboe.