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Baron Oil PLC

01 October 2020

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1 October 2020

Baron Oil Plc

("Baron" or "the Company")

P2478 - Extension of Work Sharing and Confidentiality Agreement

Baron Oil Plc (AIM:BOIL), the AIM-quoted oil and gas exploration company, notes that the licence administrator for UK Licence P2478, Corallian Energy Limited ("Corallian") has issued the following statement.

"Corallian and JV partners extend the exclusivity period for the work sharing agreement for licence P2478, Inner Moray Firth.

Corallian, together with Joint Venture partners ("JV partners"), Upland Resources and Baron Oil, signed in April 2020 a Work Sharing and Confidentiality Agreement with a large European E&P Company ("Interested Party") for licence P2478 in the Inner Moray Firth.

Under the terms of the agreement Corallian and JV partners agreed to cease marketing a joint farmout to industry until 30th September 2020, during which period the Interested Party would complete its own regional technical work and share its data and interpretations over the area with Corallian and JV Partners ("Exclusivity Period"). The Interested Party has requested a 4-month extension to the Exclusivity Period to 31st January 2021 to complete their evaluation which the P2478 Licensees have agreed to. Corallian and JV partners may further extend the Exclusivity Period with the Interested Party by mutual agreement until the 30th April 2020 should such Party commit to negotiate farmin terms to earn an interest in the licence.

The P2478 licence (Corallian 45% interest and licence administrator) contains the Dunrobin prospect. The prospect consists of three large shallow Jurassic rotated fault blocks that are mapped mostly on 3D seismic data within a single culmination with Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators. Reservoir targets are the Jurassic Beatrice and Dunrobin sandstones, overlain by a thick Kimmeridge Clay to seabed. The prospect is approximately 30km offshore with a water depth of approximately 75m. The Dunrobin structure covers an area of approximately 40km2 and the prospect Pmean prospective resources of 174 mmboe, with potential for 396 mmboe (P10) as assessed by Corallian."

Baron holds a 15% working interest in P2478.

Qualified Person Statement

Pursuant to the requirements of the AIM Rules - Note for Mining and Oil and Gas Companies, the technical information and resource reporting contained in this announcement has been reviewed by Dr Malcolm Butler BSc, PhD, FGS, Executive Chairman of the Company. Dr Butler has more than 45 years' experience as a petroleum geologist. He has compiled, read and approved the technical disclosure in this regulatory announcement, which complies with the Society of Petroleum Engineers' standard, except as noted.

We note that Corallian's estimates of prospective resources are unrisked, recoverable estimates and are not stated as being SPE PRMS compliant.

Dr Malcolm Butler, Executive Chairman of Baron, commented:

"We are pleased that the Interested Party has agreed to continue work on the P2478 project in this highly prospective area. Once complete, we look forward to receiving a copy of the Interested Party's regional technical studies including the area of the P2478 licence. The ultimate aim of the studies is to improve geological understanding and reduce the pre-drill risk on the substantial Dunrobin prospect."

For further information, please contact:

 
Baron Oil Plc                               +44 (0)20 7117 2849 
Dr Malcolm Butler, Executive Chairman 
Andy Yeo, Managing Director 
 
 
Allenby Capital Limited                     +44 (0)203 328 5656 
Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker 
Alex Brearley, Nick Harriss, Nick Athanas 
 
Turner Pope Investments (TPI) Limited       +44 (0)20 3657 0050 
Joint Broker 
Andy Thacker, Zoe Alexander 
 
 

Glossary

 
mmboe                          Million barrels of oil equivalent 
 
Oil equivalent                 Volume derived by dividing the estimate of the volume of natural gas in billion cubic 
                               feet 
                               by six in order to convert it to an equivalent in million barrels of oil and adding 
 Prospective Resources         this to 
                               the estimate of the volume of oil in millions of barrels. 
 
                               Quantities of petroleum estimated, as of a given date, to be potentially recoverable 
                               from 
                               undiscovered accumulations by application of future development projects. The total 
                               quantity 
                               of petroleum that is estimated to exist originally in naturally occurring reservoirs, 
                               as of 
                               a given date. Crude oil in-place, natural gas in-place, and natural bitumen in-place 
                               are defined 
                               in the same manner. 
SPE PRMS                       The Society of Petroleum Engineers' ("SPE") Petroleum Resources Management System 
                               ("PRMS") 
                               is a system developed for consistent and reliable definition, classification, and 
                               estimation 
                               of hydrocarbon resources prepared by the Oil and Gas Reserves Committee of SPE and 
                               approved 
                               by the SPE Board in June 2018 following input from six sponsoring societies: the World 
                               Petroleum 
                               Council, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Society of Petroleum 
                               Evaluation 
                               Engineers, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the European Association of 
                               Geoscientists 
                               and Engineers, and the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts. 
P10 Prospective Resources      Denotes the high estimate qualifying as Prospective Resources. Reflects a volume 
                               estimate 
                               that there is a 10% probability that the quantities actually recovered will equal or 
                               exceed 
                               the estimate. 
 
  Pmean Prospective Resources   Reflects a median or best case volume estimate of resource derived using probabilistic 
                                methodology. 
                                This is the mean of the probability distribution for the resource estimates and can be 
                                skewed 
                                by high resource numbers with relatively low probabilities. 
 
 

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