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Petro Matad is the parent company of a group focused on oil exploration, as well as future development and production in Mongolia. The Group’s principal asset is the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) over Matad Block XX, a petroleum block with an area of 14,250km2 in the far eastern part of Mongolia, near the Chinese border. Recently the company signed two more Production Sharing Contracts on Bogd Block IV and Ongi Block V, a total of approximately 71,000km² in central Mongolia. Petro Matad Limited’s shares were admitted to trading on AIM, London Stock Exchange, on May 1st, 2008. The company’s largest shareholder is Petrovis LLC, the largest importer and distributor of petroleum products in Mongolia. The company is the first substantially Mongolian owned company to have its shares admitted to trading on any major international stock exchange.
26/04/12
Issue of Equity and Award of Options24/04/12
Presentation to AAPG and Operations Update20/04/12
Changes to Senior Management02/04/12
Total Voting Rights27/03/12
Directorate Change22/09/11
Banks take a hit as the FTSE100 suffers a drop of almost five per cent. But small cap indices suggest that junior companies are proving more resilient in the latest round of panic
07/06/11
With a promising exploration programme underway and a highly able management team in place, things are looking up for oil group Petro Matad, analysts believe.
12/04/11
The shares hit an all-time high recently, so we take a closer look at a company which has delighted its growing fan base with a bullish operations update.
01/11/10
Whilst Petro Matad has found oil in its third exploration well, the result did not confirm hydrocarbon continuity between the previous two discoveries. With the Mongolian winter looming on the horizon the company has now called an end to the successful 2010 exploration program.
27/01/10
Doug McGay, CEO of Petro Matad, talks about a 14,000 square kilometre
production sharing contract adjacent to producing oilfields (100
kilometres from China) a prospective resource of 147 million barrels on
the most prospective area, two more exploration blocks covering 73,000
square kilometres, and a drilling programme ready to go in Spring.
24/04/12
Petro Matad to update shortly on 2012 field season plans for Mongolian oil projects20/04/12
Petro Matad appoints new CFO John Henriksen as Clyde Evans retires27/03/12
Petro Matad appoints new director13/03/12
Petro Matad appoints 3 high-profile non-exec directors27/01/12
Petro Matad's co-chairman Toll retires from board02/12/2010
30/11/2010
07/04/2009
Our Strategy
Our Strengths
Since 2006, Petro Matad has carried out extensive exploration on Block XX. This has consisted of re-processing previous data and undertaking programmes of 2D and 3D seismic surveys. Petro Matad is now ready to advance to the next stages of exploration on Block XX and early stage exploration and appraisal of Blocks IV and V.
Block XX

Block XX lies in the far eastern part of Mongolia, 500km from the capital Ulaanbaatar and to the east of the Gobi Desert. The southern boundary of the block is within 30km of the border with China and the northern boundary is within 80km of China.
Petro Matad has created an extensive seismic and other geophysical surveys database over Block XX. The database comprises a total of 3,189km of 2D seismic data, 133km² 3D seismic data and 3,000km² of gravity and magnetic data acquired by Petro Matad.
The interpretation and mapping of the Company’s entire 2D seismic data set matured 3 prospects, confirmed 2 strong leads, and identified 9 leads. The 3D seismic survey was acquired over the most advanced Prospect 8Ts. Upon completion and interpretation of the 3D seismic survey, Block XX’s Unrisked Prospective Resource is 638 MMbbl and Risked Prospective Resource is 112 MMbbl.
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Block IV

Through its subsidiary Central Asian Petroleum Corporation Limited (“Capcorp”), Petro Matad Limited was awarded Production Sharing Contract on Block IV on 8th July 2009. Block IV lies in the southwest part of Mongolia, approximately 500 km southwest of the capital Ulaanbaatar, and covers an area of 39,011.27km².
Regional scale geological mapping and gravity and magnetic surveys gave a broad indication of the presence of sub-basins which appeared to contain sediments of Jurassic-Cretaceous age and hence may be prospective for oil.
Block IV has sufficient potential to warrant the next step in exploration. Petro Matad is planning to acquire an extensive surface gravity and magnetics programme, a detailed surface geological mapping programme and a regional 2D seismic programme as part of its early exploration programme on the Block.
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Block V

Through its subsidiary Central Asian Petroleum Corporation Limited (“Capcorp”), Petro Matad Limited was awarded Production Sharing Contract on Block V on 8th July 2009 together with Block IV. Block V lies in the central part of Mongolia, approximately 330km southwest of the capital Ulaanbaatar, and covers an area of 32,030km².
Regional scale geological mapping and gravity and magnetic surveys gave a broad indication of the presence of sub-basins which appeared to contain sediments of Jurassic-Cretaceous age and hence may be prospective for oil.
Modern satellite gravity data was combined with geological surface mapping to define the depth and extents of the sub-basins to a reasonable level of accuracy. Careful calibration of the modelling was conducted in three sub-basins in Mongolia where accurate depth information was available from wells and seismic data.
The presence of source rocks in individual sub-basins cannot be proven without drilling wells; however, sub-basins with a depth to basement of less than 2,000 m are unlikely to have generated oil. On this basis, all four of the sub-basins in Block V have potential for oil generation. The largest of the prospective sub-basins has a length of approx 180 km, a width of approx 30 km and a maximum depth of approx 6,000 m.
Block V has sufficient potential to warrant the next step in exploration. Petro Matad is planning to acquire an extensive surface gravity and magnetics programme, a detailed surface geological mapping programme and a regional 2D seismic programme as part of its early exploration programme on the Block.
Dr. Janchiv Oyungerel, Non-Executive Co-Chairman
Douglas John McGay, Chief Executive Officer
Clyde Robert Evans, Finance Director
Mary Ellen Collins, Non-Executive Director
Dr Philip Vingoe, Non-Executive Director
David Skeels, Non-Executive Director
T. Amarzul, Executive Director of Capcorp Mongolia LLC and Petro Matad LLC
B. Dendevchuluun, General Manager of Petro Matad LLC
Rodney W Graham, Head of Operations of Petro Matad LLC
As to UK law:
Norton Rose LLP
3 More London Riverside
London SE1 2AQ
Registered Agent and Registrar
HCW Fiduciaire Limited
Victory House
Douglas
Isle of Man IM1 1EQ
As to Isle of Man law:
Appleby
33 Athol Street
Douglas
Isle of Man IM1 1LB
Principal place of business
Suite 407, NIC Building
Amar Street 8
Sukhbaatar District
Ulaanbaatar 210646
Mongolia
As to Mongolian law:
Bona Lex LLC
Room 503,
Rokmon Building
Ulaanbaatar 210628
Nominated Adviser and Broker
Westhouse Securities Limited
One Angel Court
London EC2R 7HJ
Legal advisers to the Company
Auditors
PKF Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors
Level 7, BGC Centre
28, The Esplanade
Perth
Western Australia 6000
General Email Enquiries:
admin@petromatad.com
Isle of Man Registered Office:
Petro Matad Limited
Victory House
Douglas
Isle of Man
Tel: +44 (0) 1624 627 099
Fax: +44 (0) 1624 677 225
Australian Representative Office:
Suite 4
20 Altona Street
West Perth 6005
Western Australia
Tel: +61 (0) 8 9486 4588
Fax: +61 (0) 8 9486 4587
Mongolian Operations Office:
Suite 407 NIC Building
Amar Street 8
Sukhbaatar District
Ulaanbaatar 210646
Mongolia
Tel: +976 11 331099
Fax: +971 11 321799
Hong Kong Representative Office:
3905 Two Exchange Square
Suite No. 7703
8 Connaught Place
Central, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 3189 2564
Fax: +852 2521 1190
The Company is aware of the below shareholders who hold 3% or more of the Company’s issued share capital at 13 February 2012.
|
Name
|
Number of Ordinary Shares
|
Percentage of issued
share capital |
|
Petrovis LLC |
36,684,262 |
19.85% |
|
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
31,741,110 |
17.18% |
|
Forestberries LLC |
11,000,000 |
5.95% |
|
GLG Partners LP |
10,853,132 |
5.87% |
|
Janchiv Oyungerel* |
6,585,000 |
3.56% |
Updated from Petro Matad website 14.03.2012