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Egdon Resources PLC
29 April 2019
29 April 2019
EGDON RESOURCES PLC
("Egdon" or "the Company")
Wressle Planning Inquiry Date
Egdon Resources plc (AIM: EDR) advises that the Planning
Inspectorate has now set the start date of the planning inquiry to
hear the Company's appeal against the refusal of planning consent
for the development of the Wressle oil field by North Lincolnshire
Council's Planning Committee on 28 November 2018. The public
inquiry will commence on 5 November 2019 with the hearing expected
to last up to six days at a venue which has yet to be confirmed.
The Planning Inspector will be Mr. Phillip Ware.
Mark Abbott, Managing Director of Egdon Resources plc, said:
"We look forward to a QC presenting our case for the planning
merits of the Wressle development to an independent professional
Planning Inspector away from the influence of local politics. We
believe that we have a very strong case, supported by detailed
evidence and agree with the conclusions of the Council's own
professional planning officer, as reinforced by an expert third
party review undertaken on behalf of the Council, who recommended
our revised application for approval ahead of the November 2018
decision."
For further information please contact:
Egdon Resources plc
Mark Abbott 01256 702 292
Buchanan
Ben Romney, Chris Judd 020 7466 5000
Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker - Cantor Fitzgerald
Europe
David Porter/Nick Tulloch (Corporate Finance) 020 7894 7000
Caspar Shand Kydd (Sales)
Joint Broker - VSA Capital Limited
Andrew Monk (Corporate Broking) 020 3005 5000
Andrew Raca (Corporate Finance)
Notes to Editors:
Wressle:
The Wressle-1 well was drilled in 2014 and tested in 2015. Egdon
Resources has a 30.00% operated interest in the field. The
Wressle-1 well has flowed oil and gas from three separate
reservoirs, the Ashover Grit, the Wingfield Flags and the Penistone
Flags. This totalled 710 barrels of oil equivalent per day from all
zones. In September 2016 a Competent Person's Report made
independent estimates of Reserves and Contingent and Prospective
oil and gas Resources for the Wressle discovery of 2.15 million
stock tank barrels classified as discovered (2P+2C). Further
information can be found at our Wressle Oil and Gas Discovery page
http://www.egdon-resources.com/home/project-sites/wressle/
Planning history:
On 11 January 2017, North Lincolnshire Council refused planning
consent for the original application for the development of the
Wressle Oil Field at Lodge Farm, Wressle, North Lincolnshire.
On 7 February 2017, Egdon announced that it would both appeal
the decision of 11 January 2017 and in parallel submit a new
Planning Application for the Wressle development which would
include even more detailed information to address the specific
concerns outlined by North Lincolnshire Council in their
refusal.
On 11 April 2017, Egdon submitted an appeal against North
Lincolnshire Council's decision to refuse planning consent.
On 28 April 2017, Egdon submitted a new application for the
Wressle Development including additional detailed information to
address the specific concerns raised by North Lincolnshire Council
in its 11 January 2017 decision to refuse the original application
for the development of the Wressle Oil Field.
On 19 May 2017, Egdon announced the issue by the Environment
Agency of the variation to the Mining Waste Permit for the planned
Wressle field development and associated operations.
On 3 July 2017, the new planning application was also refused.
The variation of the existing planning for the site requesting a
twelve month extension was also refused at the same meeting.
During November 2017, a planning inquiry was held to consider
the two appeals for development approval and the appeal of the
variation of the existing planning for the site. On 5 January 2018,
we announced that the Inspector had rejected the appeals by Egdon
against the two planning refusals by North Lincolnshire County
Council's Planning Committee. However, the Planning Inspectorate
did uphold Egdon's appeal against the decision to refuse the
application to retain the existing planning for the well site,
which is was retained until the 28 April 2018.
A new application to extend the current planning consent was
submitted on 13 April 2018 and refused 1 August 2018 and the
company announced its intention to appeal the decision. On 24
January 2019, the Planning Inspector upheld the Egdon Appeal and
awarded planning consent to 24 January 2020.
On 5 July a new planning application was submitted for the
development of the Wressle oil field. The new planning application
was designed to comprehensively address the key concerns which
resulted in the Inspector's dismissal of our earlier planning
appeals. It incorporates high levels of embedded mitigation, such
as the new HDPE impermeable membrane system and was informed by
information from site investigation and deeper cored boreholes
drilled during 2018. This application was refused on 28 November
2018 and an appeal was submitted on 1 February 2019.
Egdon Resources plc (LSE: EDR) is an established UK-based
exploration and production company focused on onshore exploration
and production in the hydrocarbon-producing basins of the UK.
Egdon holds interests in 44 licences in the UK and has an active
programme of exploration, appraisal and development within its
portfolio of oil and gas assets. Egdon is an approved operator in
the UK.
Egdon was formed in 1997 and listed on AIM in December 2004.
Qualified Person Review
In accordance with the AIM Rules - Note for Mining and Oil and
Gas Companies, this release has been reviewed by Mark Abbott,
Managing Director of Egdon, who is a geoscientist with over 30
years' experience and is a member of the Petroleum Exploration
Society of Great Britain and a Fellow of the Geological Society. Mr
Abbott has consented to the inclusion of the technical information
in this release in the form and context in which it appears.
Evaluation of hydrocarbon volumes has been assessed in
accordance with 2018 Petroleum Resources Management System (PRMS)
prepared by the Oil and Gas Reserves Committee of the Society of
Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and reviewed and jointly sponsored by the
World Petroleum Council (WPC), the American Association of
Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the Society of Petroleum Evaluation
Engineers (SPEE), the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG),
the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) and
the European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
(EAGE).
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