9^th December 2021

Block Energy plc

("Block" or the "Company")

Appointment of Senior Independent Director

Block Energy plc, the development and production company focused on Georgia, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jeremy Asher as the Senior Independent Director, with immediate effect.

Jeremy was appointed to the Board in August this year. He has extensive public listed company experience, including currently being on the Board of Tower Resources plc, and having previously served on the Boards of NYSE-listed Pacific Drilling SA and LSE-listed Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited, among others. 

Commenting, Philip Dimmock, Chairman of Block Energy, said:

"Jeremy's appointment as Senior Independent Director represents another clear step in making sure Block has the right systems of corporate governance in place, which will support the future of the Company through good decision making. Jeremy has extensive experience on the boards of public listed and private companies, so is ideally suited to taking on the additional responsibility on behalf of Block and its shareholders".

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Notes to editors

Block Energy plc is an AIM-listed independent oil and gas company focused on production and development in Georgia, applying innovative technology to realise the full potential of previously discovered fields.

Block has a 100% working interest in Georgian onshore licence blocks IX and XI^B. Licence block XI^B is Georgia's most productive block, with 2P oil and gas reserves of 64 MMboe, which is comprised 2P oil reserves of 36 MMbbls and 2P gas reserves of 28 MMboe (Source: CPR Bayphase Limited: 1 July 2015) and historic production of over 180 MMbbls of oil from the Middle Eocene, peaking in the mid-1980s at 67,000 bopd.

The Company has a 100% working interest in the highly prospective West Rustavi onshore oil and gas field with multiple wells that have tested oil and gas from a range of geological horizons. The field has so far produced 50 Mbbls of light sweet crude and has 0.9 MMbbls of gross 2P oil reserves in the Middle Eocene. It also has 38 MMbbls of gross unrisked 2C contingent resources of oil and 608 Bcf of gross unrisked 2C contingent resources of gas in the Middle, Upper and Lower Eocene formations (Source: CPR Gustavson Associates: 1 January 2018).

Block also holds 100% and 90% working interests respectively in the onshore oil producing Norio and Satskhenisi fields.

The Company offers a clear entry point for investors to gain exposure to Georgia's growing economy and the strong regional demand for oil and gas.