11 January 2013
THE PARKMEAD GROUP PLC
("Parkmead" or the "Company")
Admission of Placing & Conversion Shares
The Board of Parkmead is pleased to confirm that the 157,755,101 new Ordinary Shares being issued pursuant to the Placing and the issue of the Conversion Shares, announced on 18 December 2012 and following yesterday's General Meeting, have this morning been admitted to trading on AIM.
For enquiries please contact:
The Parkmead Group plc 01224 622200
Tom Cross, Executive Chairman [email protected]
Donald MacKay, Chief Financial Officer [email protected]
Kathryn Ramsay, Investor Relations [email protected]
Charles Stanley Securities 020 7149 6000
Nominated Adviser & Broker
Marc Milmo / Carl Holmes
College Hill 020 7457 2020
Matthew Tyler
Alexandra Roper
Notes to Editors:
1. Parkmead is an independent oil and gas company that is listed on AIM on the London Stock Exchange (symbol: PMG). Parkmead's primary focus is in the upstream oil and gas exploration and production sector, targeting transactions at both asset and corporate levels.
2. In November 2011, Parkmead completed the acquisition of stakes in UK Blocks 48/1a, 47/5b and 48/1c containing the Platypus gas field, discovered in 2010, and the Possum gas prospect. Mapping indicates the potential for Platypus and Possum to contain up to 180 and 100 billion cubic feet of gas in place, respectively.
3. In December 2011, Parkmead announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire stakes in blocks 47/4d, 47/5d, 47/10c and 48/6c in the UK Southern North Sea, which contain the large Pharos gas prospect. This structure has the potential to hold up to 500 billion cubic feet of gas in place. These two gas-basin acquisitions were important, early steps in Parkmead's first stage of its development as a new independent energy company.
4. In March 2012, Parkmead announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire a portfolio of Netherlands onshore assets comprising four producing gas fields and two oil fields from Dyas B.V. The acquisition of these assets provided the Group with its first producing fields. At the effective date of the acquisition, 1 January 2012, these assets were producing at a rate of approximately 2,000 boepd, delivering approximately 300 boepd net to Parkmead. In addition, the portfolio acquired provides the Group with future oil developments at Ottoland and Papekop, with the former forecast to come onstream in 2013. This acquisition completed in August 2012.
5. In May 2012, Parkmead announced that it had reached an agreement on the terms of a recommended acquisition of DEO Petroleum plc ("DEO") by Parkmead, to be implemented by way of a Court-sanctioned Scheme of Arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Scheme").The Scheme became effective on the 9th August 2012. DEO's principal asset is its interest in the Perth field in the UKCS. DEO owns 52% and is operator of the Perth field, which is targeting Proven and Probable (2P) reserves of 21.5mmbls net to DEO.
6. In October 2012, Parkmead announced that the Group had been provisionally awarded several new licences under the UKCS 27th Licensing Round. The six new licences comprise interests in a total of 25 offshore blocks or partial blocks across the Central North Sea, West of Scotland and West of Shetland. In addition, Parkmead also applied for certain licences in the 27th Round, within the UKCS Southern Gas Basin, which are yet to be awarded by the UK Government due to their location close to, or in, certain Specific Areas of Conservation (SACs) and Special Protection Areas (SPAs).
7. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Aupec, the Parkmead Group provides petroleum economics, benchmarking and valuation expertise to a wide range of government bodies and international oil and gas companies. Aupec has to date worked with over 100 governments, national oil companies, majors and independents, across the world, as well as a number of multi-national agencies such as the European Commission and the World Bank. Aupec is currently undertaking an important benchmarking project for a group of the world's largest super-major oil companies.
For further information please refer to Parkmead's website at www.parkmeadgroup.com and Aupec's website at www.aupec.com
