Gold Point Energy Announces LOI on Bulgaria Gas Project
02 Julho 2008 - 10:30AM
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (TSX VENTURE: GPE)(FRANKFURT WKN #
A0HGQ1) reported today that it has entered into a Letter of Intent
with JKX Oil & Gas PLC ("JKX") and Aurelian Oil & Gas PLC
("Aurelian") to farm-in to a portion of two oil and gas licenses
comprising 1,480 square kilometers (365,520 acres) in eastern
Bulgaria. GPE has agreed to pay 40% of a 250 square kilometer 3D
seismic survey plus 40% of the cost of two shallow test wells to
earn a 20% working interest in the block. GPE's obligation to pay
40% of the seismic and drilling costs is subject to a cap of $5.0
million, after which it pays 20% of the costs.
The farm-in block is located onshore in eastern Bulgaria along
the Black Sea coast. The primary objective on the block is shallow
Tertiary age (Eocene and Oligocene) sandstone reservoirs in the
Varna Trough of the Western Black Sea Basin. The potentially
productive Tertiary sediments cover an area of approximately 500
square kilometers, which is completely covered by the JKX and
Aurelian licenses. Previous exploration drilling conducted between
1957 and 1979 by the former Bulgarian state-owned oil and gas
company, Comgeo, resulted in numerous wells with promising gas
tests despite the use of primitive, overbalanced drilling
techniques. Of seventy-seven wells drilled, three were completed as
producing wells, forty-four encountered producible gas, and sixteen
had good gas shows. Due to the lack of market for gas at the time
the wells were drilled, the basin was left almost completely
undeveloped. This Tertiary basin represents an opportunity to apply
3D seismic exploration techniques that were originally developed in
the US Gulf Coast and recently applied to the Pannonian Basin of
Hungary with great success.
Under the terms of the Letter of Intent, GPE has agreed to pay
40% of the costs associated with a 250 square kilometer 3D seismic
survey ("the 3D Survey") of the eastern area of the Golitza B and
B1 Licenses ("the Eastern Golitza Area"). The current estimate of
the cost of the 3D Survey is US$7.5 million. GPE's share of that
US$7.5 million would be US$3.0 million. Data acquisition for the 3D
Survey is scheduled to commence in September, 2008, and be
completed by year-end. The processed seismic data is expected to be
available to GPE in early Q2-09. Within three months of receipt of
the processed seismic data GPE will make an election to obtain a
20% participating interest in the Eastern Golitza Area and continue
in the project; or exit the project if it considers that the
results of the 3D Survey are unfavourable.
If GPE elects to continue in the project it shall then be
responsible for 40% of the cost of drilling and completing, or
plugging and abandoning, the two exploration wells that are to be
drilled in the Eastern Golitza Area by the end of Q4 2009 until
such time as GPE's cumulative investment in the 3D Survey and the
two exploration wells shall total $5.0 million; thereafter GPE will
be responsible for only 20% of any additional project costs.
GPE's participation in the proposed transaction is subject to
obtaining TSX Venture Exchange approval.
JKX Oil & Gas PLC is a FTSE 250 exploration and production
company. Listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol
"JKX", the Company's principal interests are located in Ukraine and
Russia, with additional interests in Georgia, Bulgaria, Hungary,
Slovakia, Turkey and USA. In Ukraine JKX is active through its
wholly-owned subsidiary, Poltava Petroleum Company ("PPC"), which
is the largest non-state producer of oil and gas in the country.
JKX acquired the enterprise Yuzhgazenergie (YGE) in a US$50 million
transaction during 2007; YGE holds the licence to redevelop the
34.7 square kilometer Koshekhablskoye gas field, located in the
Republic of Adygea in southern Russia. During fiscal year 2007 JKX
produced an average daily rate of 12,579 barrels of oil equivalent
(BOE), generating total revenue of US$184.5 million, cash flow of
US$119.9 million, and profit of US$113.3 million.
Aurelian Oil & Gas PLC is an exploration and production
company listed on the London AIM Exchange under the symbol "AUL".
Aurelian was founded in December 2002 to focus on the established
oil provinces in the central European countries of the former CIS
where there had been little investment in seismic and drilling
technology during the previous 20 years. The Company has since
developed rapidly from a pure exploration company into its present
position with a wide portfolio of concessions in Poland (5),
Slovakia (3), Romania (5) and Bulgaria (2), and a range of
production, appraisal and exploration projects. Aurelian has a 90%
interest in a recent discovery located southwest of Poznan, Poland
which tested a culmination mapped within the Siekierki structural
trend at approximately 3,900 meters depth. The well found a 90
meter gas column in Rotliegendes sandstone pay, which was
subsequently tested at 7.6 MMscf/d. A third party Competent Persons
Report conducted by RPS Energy on the Siekierki gas accumulation
indicates 2C contingent resources of 190 BCF with an estimated net
present value (10% discount rate) of EUR 263 million net to
Aurelian.
Gold Point Energy Corp. is engaged in the development of oil and
gas projects in the U.S., South America and Europe. The Company has
experienced technical and management professionals, which provide a
high level of expertise to oil and gas project development, as well
as good access to industry contacts and quality projects.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Jack S. Steinhauser, President & CEO
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considered as "forward looking". Such "forward looking" statements
are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to differ materially from estimated or implied results.
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Investors should not rely on forward-looking statements because
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the Company's expectations, and expressly does not undertake any
duty to update forward-looking statements. These factors include,
but are not limited to the following: the Company's ability to
obtain additional financing, geological, mechanical or difficulties
affecting the Company's planned geological work programs,
uncertainty of estimates of mineralized material and other factors
which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of
the Company to be materially different from any future results,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements.
The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Contacts: Gold Point Energy Corp. Val Donovan Manager, Corporate
Communications 1-877-741-1217 or (604) 641-1216 Email:
vdonovan@goldpointenergy.com Website: www.goldpointenergy.com
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