Eco Atlantic and Partners Receive Ghana Parliamentary Ratification of Petroleum Agreement for Oil Block in Tano-Cape Three Po...
2014年7月29日 - 10:48PM
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. ("Eco Atlantic" or the
"Company") (TSX-V:EOG) (NSX:EOG) is pleased to announce
that the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana has ratified a
petroleum agreement (the "
Agreement") pursuant to
which the Company may acquire a 50.51% interest in the Deepwater
Cape Three Points West Block, located in the Tano Cape Three Points
Basin, offshore Ghana (the "
Block"), adjacent to
Tullow Oil plc.'s ("
Tullow") significant producing
Jubilee Oil Field. Eco (Atlantic) has been qualified as Operator of
the Block. The Agreement is final and pending execution by the
parties. The Agreement is conditional upon the execution of a Joint
Operating Agreement for the Block, among other conditions.
Partners in the Block include Eco Atlantic, through its wholly
owned subsidiary Eco Atlantic (Ghana) Ltd., which will hold 50.51%;
A-Z Petroleum Products Ghana Limited ("A-Z"),
which will hold 32.14%; the Ghana National Petroleum Company
("GNPC") which will hold 13%, and GNPC Exploration
and Production Company Limited, which will hold 4.35%. The contract
area is approximately 944km² in water depth between 800m and
2,000m. The Block is adjacent to Tullow's Jubilee Oil Field, which
is producing in excess of 100,000 barrels of oil per day. It also
shares an eastern boundary with the former OCTPS Block, a northern
boundary with the Eni Cape Three Points Block, and a western
boundary with the Hess Deep Water Cape Three Points Block. The
Agreement provides for a term of a total of 25 years, subject to
the discovery of oil within the first seven years.
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Colin Kinley, Chief Operating
Officer of Eco Atlantic
commented: "The Three Points West block is a fantastic opportunity
for Eco Atlantic to step into an active and oil producing region.
The Block is adjacent to the Tullow - Kosmos License and only 15
kilometers southeast of the current Tullow discovery and
production. The targets of interest on the Block are on trend with
the over 20 other oil discoveries in the immediate area. The Block
is already almost entirely covered with a recent 3D survey and this
will allow us to move quickly through the reprocessing and
interpretation process and on to drilling."
Gil Holzman, President and CEO
of Eco Atlantic, commented: "We are very pleased with the
ratification of the Agreement by the Parliament of the Republic of
Ghana. The Block has been the focus of interest for many
international E&P companies, and so we are thankful that the
government accepted our application in this highly competitive
environment. This represents an amazing opportunity for Eco
Atlantic's West Africa offshore exploration efforts and expending
strategic portfolio. While we remain very much focused on our
Namibian highly prospective licenses, especially after recently
bringing in Tullow as our new partner, together with our partners
in Ghana, A-Z and GNPC Explorco, we are aiming to add significant
value to our portfolio and for our shareholders."
About Eco Atlantic
Eco Atlantic is an oil and gas exploration company focused on
unique upstream opportunities for low cost entry into technically
merited prospective new and developing plays in frontier areas. Eco
is currently a exploring the new and developing energy play in
Namibia. Through a wholly owned Namibian subsidiary ("Eco
Namibia"), it holds four petroleum licenses issued by the
Government of the Republic of Namibia. Offshore in the Walvis
Basin, Eco Atlantic holds three license blocks covering more than
25,000 square kilometers. Eco Atlantic holds an additional license
block covering 23,000 square kilometers which includes both onshore
and offshore areas. Founded in 2008, Eco Namibia enjoys a strong
local presence and has a longstanding relationship with the energy
and oil and gas sector in Namibia and other maturing exploration
plays in Africa.
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information in this press release constitutes forward-looking
statements under applicable securities law. Any statements that are
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historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements are often identified by terms such as
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Forward-looking statements necessarily involve known and unknown
risks, including, without limitation, risks associated with oil and
gas production and exploration, marketing and transportation;
retention of and ability to attract Company personnel, regulatory
approvals, loss of markets; volatility of commodity prices;
currency and interest rate fluctuations; imprecision of reserve
estimates; environmental risks; competition; inability to access
sufficient capital from internal and external sources; changes in
legislation, including but not limited to income tax, environmental
laws and regulatory matters. Readers are cautioned that the
foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive.
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officers and directors, current conditions, expected future
developments and other factors that have been considered
appropriate that the expectations reflected in this forward-looking
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them because Eco Atlantic can give no assurance that they will
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CONTACT: For More Information on Eco Atlantic Contact:
Gil Holzman
President and Chief Executive Officer
gil@ecooilandgas.com
Tel: +972.508884529
Charlotte Dilks
Investor Relations Manager
charlotte@ecooilandgas.com
Tel: +1.416.361.2211
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