i3 Energy is growing a production base in Canada
Candaa and North Sea-focused oil and gas junior with production and exploration acreage
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LON:I3E
i3 Energy is an oil and gas company with a low cost, diversified, growing production base in Canada's most prolific hydrocarbon region, the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and appraisal assets in the North Sea with significant upside. The company is well positioned to deliver future growth through the optimisation of its existing 100% owned asset base and the acquisition of long life, low decline conventional production assets.
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Candaa and North Sea-focused oil and gas junior with production and exploration acreage
The licence was relinquished at the end of its two-year second term; to move into the third term of the licence an approved field development plan would have been required
The company's second Canadian transaction has now closed
“We will continue our efforts in the remainder of 2020 and beyond to grow our production business," said chief executive Majid Shafiq
“i3 Energy absolutely nailed the timing," analyst Brendan Long said of the Canadian deals.
“We are very grateful to our existing and new investors who have shown confidence in our business plan and growth strategy," said chief executive Majid Shafiq
I3E will immediately sell some of the wells that it is acquiring in the Gain Energy deal, recouping C$45mln to effectively reduce the initial acquisition cost down to C$35mln
Deals were afoot in the small-cap oil and gas market this week.
i3 Energy is seeking to transform itself into a consolidator of long life/low decline conventional production assets in Canada.
Gain produced at a rate of around 11,000 barrels per day equivalent throughout 2019
An option has now been taken up, talks are underway for a binding agreement and separately deal funding.
Talks have been underway for a number of weeks and they are ongoing
The firm had been making positive progress with a farm-out process, and in March it unveiled a significant new acquisition
It is a discounted deal that plugs in cash-generating operations to what, at present, is otherwise a drill-bit dependent appraisal and development company
It was another busy week in the small-cap oil and gas sector
Archive
A glance at some of the day's highlights from the Proactive Investors newswire
Dolphin Drilling will earn up to a 10% economic interest in block 13/23c via a revenue-sharing agreement
Potential partners are are actively evaluating the opportunity, the North Sea junior said in a statement
The North Sea junior is advancing plans for its 2020 drill programmes at the Serenity and Liberator projects
An envisaged new programme of appraisal drilling will be subject to new funding, and, to that end, a farm-out partnering process has begun.