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Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Savannah Petroleum signed a legally binding MoU with the government of Niger that reaffirms both parties’ commitment to the realization of the proposed early production scheme (EPS) from its recent discoveries.
The MoU further binds both parties to work together towards the realization of the EPS and contains specific provisions relating to the actions each party undertakes to conduct as well as setting out the key timelines associated with the project.
The EPS is intended to be domestic focused, with oil produced from Savannah Niger’s R3 area discoveries expected to be sold to the Société de Raffinage de Zinder (SORAZ) refinery, which is connected to the ARB via the third party owned 463-km Agadem-Zinder crude oil transportation pipeline.
As part of the MOU, Niger has confirmed its intention to, inter alia:
As part of the MOU, Savannah has undertaken to, inter alia:
FoumakoyeGado, Niger Minister of Energy and Petroleum, said: “We are very pleased with the success Savannah has achieved in its exploration drilling campaign to date, with three discoveries from its first three wells. As a Government, we are keen to see that these and future discoveries commence production as soon as possible, given the positive contribution to economic growth, tax revenues and our local communities that they have the potential to deliver. We are committed to provide Savannah with all reasonable assistance to enable this to happen. We continue to hope that Savannah’s experiences will serve as a positive advertisement for our Government’s pro-FDI approach and would strongly encourage others to come and invest in Niger, both in oil and gas and other sectors.”
Andrew Knott, CEO of Savannah Petroleum, said: “Our Niger project team is highly focused around the delivery of: (1) near-term production and cashflows from existing and future discoveries in the R3 area; and (2) further material reserve adds through our ongoing exploration and appraisal drilling program. The signature of the MOU provides a clear pathway in relation to our first objective and is a major milestone. In relation to the second objective, Savannah benefits from the large bank of drill-ready exploration prospects that our technical team has mapped within our PSC areas. We believe the vast majority of these prospects have similar risk profiles to the ones we have already successfully drilled, and we therefore look forward with confidence to the results of the wells still to come in the campaign. It is an exciting period for Savannah and our stakeholders and I look forward to providing further updates as our Niger project progresses over the course of the coming months.
I would like to again thank the Government of Niger for their continued support of our project. We look forward to working with them and our other project stakeholders to making the EPS a reality and starting production and sales from our R3 license in Niger.I also look forward with confidence to the completion of the Seven Energy transaction this quarter and expect to provide further announcements in relation to this shortly.”
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