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Predator Oil & Gas Holdings plc (LSE: PRD), a Jersey based Oil and Gas Company with near-term gas operations focussed on Morocco, is pleased to announce that it has conditionally placed 40 million new ordinary shares of no par value in the Company (the "Placing Shares") at a placing price of 5 pence each (the "Placing Price") to raise £2 million (before expenses) (the "Placing").

The Placing was significantly oversubscribed and utlises some of the Company's existing headroom shares under the Financial Conduct's Authority Prospectus Regulation Rules.

Novum Securities are acting as sole placing agents to the Company.

Use of Proceeds

The Proceeds of the Placing, less expenses, will be spent on:

  • new testing operations onshore Morocco that can further enhance the value of the acreage for gas and, potentially, helium and to avail of the unique licence location relative to gas infrastructure and attractive fiscal regime;
  • new opportunistic drilling operations where economies of scale reduces costs by having equipment and well services already mobilised;
  • completing the acquisition of a producing asset onshore Trinidad suitable for production enhancement to accelerate realisation of the value of the consolidated tax losses in T-Rex Resources Trinidad Limited, which for a 60 bopd well at WTI oil spot price US$69 per barrel is equivalent to an additional US$16.49 per barrel for oil produced and sold;
  • being prepared for a potential award of the Corrib South successor authorisation offshore Ireland and concluding a farmout.

USE OF PROCEEDS

Proposed projectsBudgeted estimated costs (£)
Guercif onshore Morocco
1. Perforate higher pressure gas sand between 339 and 350 metres in MOU-3 (Safety Case being developed)600,000
2. Contingency for testing MOU-5 and potential helium sampling550,000
3. Satellite remote sensing and gravity/magnetic study to potentially locate fracture zones for enhanced helium concentrations50,000
4. Contingency to close out Corrib South farmout offshore Ireland - conditions for award of successor authorisation now a likely near-term goal in H1 202525 ,000
5. Public Relations Predator's historical Trinidad CO2 EOR Project is being presented by the Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries at COP 29 - global PR opportunity10 ,000
6. MOU-6 well planning and long lead items300,000
Onshore Trinidad
7. Complete acquisition of new producing field15,000
8. Drill two infill shallow development wells on new field and apply chemical wax treatment. Put on production - forecast 80 to 120 bopd initially350,000
9. Review new country entry onshore Africa. Prospective acreage analogous to geological basins in Algeria and Libya which contain large producing fields - First Mover status to negotiate a Production Sharing Agreement100,000
TOTAL COSTS2 ,000,000

Completion of the Placing

Completion of the Placing is conditional on, inter alia:-

Admission, Settlement and Dealings in the new Placing Shares

Applications will be made to the FCA and to the London Stock Exchange for Admission in respect of all the Placing Shares proposed to be issued on completion of the Placing. It is expected that Admission will become effective, and that dealings in the Placing Shares are expected to commence at 8.00 a.m. on 8 November 2024.

Warrants

The Placing is with a single institutional strategic investor as a consequence of which 40 million warrants are being issued on a one-for-one basis exercisable at 8p. The Warrants have an expiry date of three years from the date of Admission.

The Warrants, if exercised in whole or in part, potentially provides the Company with additional funding on the back of a successful outcome to the MOU-5 drilling programme in Q1 2025 for follow-up appraisal/pre-development drilling.

Total Voting Rights

Following Admission, the Company has ordinary shares of no par value in issue, each with one vote per share (and none of which are held in treasury). The total number of voting rights in the Company is therefore 611,874,754. This figure of 611,874,754 may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for calculations to determine if they have a notifiable interest in the share capital of the Company under the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules, or if such interest has changed.

Paul Griffiths, Chief Executive Officer of Predator Oil & Gas Holdings Plc commented:

"As a result of unsolicited investor demand, the Board carefully considered the merits of a placing. The opportunity to strengthen the shareholder register with a significant strategic investment from a single institution was determined to be advantageous at this time to strengthen the Company's ability to navigate through a period of market uncertainty as it focuses on delivering its key exploration, appraisal and development assets.

The Company is at a stage where it is making excellent progress in developing our portfolio strategy based on blending assets in different jurisdictions where we have consummated a variety of transactions to develop a tax-efficient production platform, applied innovative new technologies to discover material gas resources, and have matured a huge drilling prospect onshore Morocco next to gas infrastructure linked to the European gas network. Such a material prospect would normally be in the domain of the super-majors pursuing offshore exploration at much higher drilling and development costs. Success at MOU-5 potentially creates a unique divestment opportunity in terms of the ability to monetise a large gas discovery in such an attractive fiscal regime adjacent to up to 1 BCF/day spare infrastructure capacity.

We have developed our assets by not farming out and reducing our equity in our licences, thereby maintaining operatorship and material project equities necessary to provide substance for a divestment scenario. Furthermore we have no debt.

It is in this context that the Board decided to strengthen our balance sheet at this time with a placing. The additional funds will allow us to accelerate building a production base in Trinidad; support the momentum for developing the CNG gas business; further evaluate the helium potential in Guercif; and prepare for a potential award of the Corrib South successor authorisation and conclusion of a farmout for a structure that is potentially similar in size to the Corrib gas field. Notwithstanding this the MOU-5 well is on course to be drilled in Q1 2025 and represents one of the most significant risk-reward propositions of any well to be drilled in the near future. The search has commenced for the next generation MOU-5 target onshore Africa. A new country entry is currently under consideration but it is too early to say if this will provide the materiality that the Company seeks when assessing new ventures."

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