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Angus NED Paul Forrest sells 16.5m shares

Angus Energy plc non-executive director Paul Forrest sold 16.5 million ordinary shares of 0.002p each at an average price of 1.8 pence per ordinary share. Following the sale for £297,000 on 14 April 2023, Mr Forrest’s total shareholding in the company is now 483,356,061 ordinary shares, representing 13.46% of the issued share capital. He has […]

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Prospex appoints Andrew Hay as independent NED

Prospex Energy plc has appointed Andrew Hay as an independent non-executive director (NED), with immediate effect. Mr Hay is a graduate of Oxford University with more than 30 years’ experience as a banker in London and New York, covering corporate banking, the debt and equity capital markets and international M&A. He is currently a senior […]

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UKOG prepares to drill Pinarova-1

UK Oil & Gas plc (UKOG) is preparing for the next drill stage to test whether the Pinarova-1 exploration well is fed by and connected to an underlying 9km2 light oil accumulation at the site in Turkey. SCHEDULE Following initial drilling, the company’s joint venture partner has set and cemented the well’s 9⅝ inch casing down […]

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Oriole receives £157,000 tax rebate for R&D

Oriole Resources plc has received a £157,000 tax rebate in respect of geoscientific advances through the company’s exploration programmes in West Africa. GEOLOGICAL DATA The money is from the company’s research and development tax relief claim for the year ended 31 December 2022. Oriole said that the rebate reflected its research on potential areas of mineralisation […]

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Hurricane Q1 revenues reach $39.3m

Hurricane Energy plc recorded revenues of $39.3 million for the first quarter of 2023 from its operations on the Lancaster field, west of Shetland in the North Sea. OPERATIONS The company’s unaudited trading report shows production of 0.66 MMbbls with an average of 7,311 bopd, and oil sales of 0.5 MMbbls from one cargo. At […]

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Angus completes initial B7T clean-up at Saltfleetby

Angus Energy plc has completed the initial clean up of the new B7T well at Saltfleetby in Lincolnshire. PRODUCTION The company said that the well was producing from an approximately 185m horizontal section in the main Westphalian reservoir at a vertical depth of 2292m. Following first production on 31 March the company has been cleaning […]