RE:Taipan farm inthx BR; here is the Taipan version of the New Release:
Taipan Resources to farm out 15% of block 2B
2014-04-09 08:50 ET - News Release
Mr. Maxwell Birley reports
TAIPAN RESOURCES INC. FARMS OUT 15% OF BLOCK 2B KENYA TO TOWER RESOURCES
Taipan Resources Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary Lion Petroleum Corp., based in Kenya, has signed a binding farm-out agreement with Tower Resources (Kenya) Ltd., a subsidiary of Alternative Investment Market-listed Tower Resources PLC, whereby Tower will acquire a 15-per-cent participating interest in block 2B onshore Kenya. Taipan will retain a 30-per-cent operated interest in block 2B.
The principal terms of the farm-out agreement are as follows:
- Tower will pay to Taipan $4.5-million (U.S.) in cash at completion.
- Tower will issue to Taipan nine million shares in Tower Resources PLC in two tranches, 50 per cent at completion and 50 per cent three months following completion.
- Tower will make a $1.0-million (U.S.) payment to Taipan, conditional upon the spudding of a second well in block 2B.
- Completion is conditional solely on approval from Premier Oil Investments Ltd.
- Tower will, on and from the effective date of transfer, pay its participating-interest share of costs incurred in conducting joint operations as per the provision of the joint operating agreement, the initial phase of which is estimated to cost gross $29.5-million (U.S.).
- Tower will provide guarantees for its share of the minimum work and expenditure obligations required under the PSC for block 2B.
Taipan is presently preparing to drill the Badada prospect on block 2B in Kenya. The Badada prospect has been independently estimated by Sproule International Ltd. to have mean gross unrisked prospective resources of 251 million barrels of oil equivalent and high-estimate (P10) gross unrisked prospective resources of 498 million barrels of oil equivalent. The total estimated mean gross unrisked prospective resources on block 2B are 1,593 million barrels of oil equivalent based on 19 exploration leads (1).
Taipan, through its subsidiary Lion Petroleum, will retain operatorship of block 2B during the exploration phase.
Maxwell Birley, chief executive officer, commented: "We have further derisked our prospect in block 2B with this farm-out to Tower. The farm-out to Tower is being completed at a favourable premium to the farm-down to Premier announced in December of last year and is reflective of the increased sentiment towards the value of our acreage in block 2B. Between this farm-down and the recent private placement, Taipan is now fully funded and exposed to the drilling of a well on each of block 1 and block 2B in 2014. We have now set our sights not only on the drilling of these two exciting targets, but also on other sub-Saharan assets, which will allow us to expand our portfolio of exploration assets in 2015 and beyond."
(1) Sproule completed an updated independent assessment of the company's prospective resources on block 2B with an effective date of Dec. 31, 2013. The independent assessment was carried out in accordance with the standards established by the Canadian Securities Administrators in National Instrument 51-101 -- Standards of Disclosure for Oil and Gas Activities.