Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd.
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29 April 2014
Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (LSE: GKP)
("Gulf Keystone" or "the Company")
2013 Annual Report and Accounts
Gulf Keystone is pleased to present the Company's Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2013.
The Annual Report and Accounts are available on the Company's website at www.gulfkeystone.com.
The Annual Report and Accounts have also been posted to shareholders today.
The Company will publish its Q1 2014 Interim Management Statement on 14 May 2014.
Enquiries:
Gulf Keystone Petroleum: |
+44 (0) 20 7514 1400 |
Anastasia Vvedenskaya, Head of Investor Relations |
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Notes to Editors:
· Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. (LSE: GKP) is an independent oil and gas exploration, development and production
company focused on exploration in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
· Gulf Keystone Petroleum International (GKPI) holds Production Sharing Contracts for four exploration blocks in
Kurdistan, the Shaikan, Sheikh Adi, Ber Bahr and Akri-Bijeel blocks.
· GKPI is the Operator of the Shaikan Block, which is a major commercial discovery, with a working interest of 75%
and is partnered with Kalegran Ltd. (a 100% subsidiary of MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas plc.) and Texas Keystone
Inc., which have working interests of 20% and 5% respectively. Texas Keystone Inc. holds its interest in trust for
Gulf Keystone, pending transfer of its interest to the Company.
· Gulf Keystone is moving into the large-scale phased development of the Shaikan field targeting 100,000 bopd of
production capacity during Phase 1 of the Shaikan Field Development Plan following its approval in June 2013.
Disclaimer
This announcement contains certain forward-looking statements. These statements are made by the Company's Directors in good faith based on the information available to them up to the time of their approval of this announcement but such statements should be treated with caution due to inherent uncertainties, including both economic and business factors, underlying such forward-looking information. This announcement has been prepared solely to provide additional information to shareholders to assess the Group's strategies and the potential for those strategies to succeed. This announcement should not be relied on by any other party or for any other purpose.
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