Friday 30 November 2012

Longreach Oil & Gas lures blue-chip investors


Longreach Oil & Gas (CVE:LOI) has confirmed it will have three new blue-chip investors on its share register following the merger with APIC, which will bring in $30mln of new funds.
They are the bank Dundee (15.2%), West Face Capital (10.6%) and Blakeney (10.3%).
The cash will fund two wells on the SidiMoktar gas licence with the Koba and Kamar prospects providing the first drill opportunities.
The former will be drilled into the upper Triassic sandstone known as T9-10, and puncturing the top of the lower lying Triassic T6 sandstone.
This will allow the group to determine the drill programme for the Kamar prospect, which will target T6 sandstone at an up-dip location.
The first well is expected to be spudded “late first quarter, early second” of next year. The wells are expected to take 60 days each and have a dry hole cost estimate of $10 million.
However, before the drill rig gets going, Longreach will acquire more 2D seismic that will further de-risk Koba and Kamar and convert other promising leads into drillable prospects.

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