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Completion of Pilot Farm-out

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Orcadian Energy (AIM: ORCA) is delighted to announce the completion of the previously announced farm-out of an 81.25% interest in licence P2244, which contains the Pilot field, to Ping Petroleum UK plc (“Ping”). Ping is focused on shallow water offshore production and development opportunities and has a significant acreage holding to the East of Pilot. This means that Orcadian Energy retains an 18.75% interest in the Pilot field development, fully carried to the first offload of oil produced from the field. Orcadian has no requirement to fund the pre-production development project work programme.

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33rd Licensing Round Offer of Awards

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Orcadian Energy is delighted to report that NSTA has announced the offer of a further tranche of licence awards in the 33rd Round. NSTA has confirmed, in an announcement dated 31 January 2024, that Orcadian Energy will be offered two licences in the Central North Sea (“CNS”) one in partnership with Parkmead Group, and the other in partnership with Triangle Energy. Orcadian anticipates that these licences will be formally issued within the next three months.

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Pilot Farm-out Update

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Further to the announcements of 18 September 2023 and 25 October 2023 the Company provides the following update on its potential farm-out of its flagship asset the Pilot development project (Licence P2244). The Company has today agreed with the potential operator (the “Operator”) a seven day extension, from 30 November 2023 until 7 December 2023 (the “New Deadline”) for the Operator to execute definitive documentation for an overall farm out deal.

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Amendment to Facility Agreement

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Orcadian Energy plc is pleased to advise that yesterday its subsidiary, Orcadian Energy (CNS) Ltd (“Orcadian CNS”), executed an agreement to amend the repayment date in its secured, facility agreement with Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited (“STASCO”). The repayment date of the Loan has now been extended to 13 March 2024.

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Results for the Half Year ended 31 Dec 2022

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Completed a revision of the technical resources on Pilot which resulted in an 18.4% upgrade to the P50 case
Entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with SLB (formerly Schlumberger) for the exclusive provision of drilling and completion services and equipment for the Pilot project
Progressed the reprocessing of the Catcher North seismic survey with TGS and started quantitative interpretation work
Prepared 33rd Round applications (submitted 12 January 2023) which included a 114 bcf gas discovery and a 153 bcf near drill-ready prospect.
Identified two new low-risk exploration prospects with P50 prospective resources of 120 MMbbl and 70 MMbbl (after the reporting period)

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