Directors Share Dealing
The Company has been informed that following today’s announcement in relation to the 14th Round, Mark Abbott, Managing Director, purchased 150,000 ordinary shares in the Company at a price of 9.875 pence each via his SIPP. Mr Abbott’s total beneficial shareholding in the Company is now 7,813,824 ordinary shares, representing 3.53 per cent of the issued share capital of the Company.
UK 14th Onshore Oil and Gas Licensing Round Second Tranche Offers
Egdon Resources plc (AIM:EDR) is pleased to advise that the Company is to be offered 11 blocks and part-blocks in the second Tranche of the UK 14th Onshore Oil and Gas Licensing Round as announced today by the Oil and Gas Authority (“OGA”). These are in addition to the 7 blocks and part-blocks the Company was offered in the first Tranche as advised in August 2015. The OGA will now progress towards issuing Petroleum Exploration and Development Licences (“PEDLs”) over the blocks offered in the two Tranches.
In the 14th Round as a whole, Egdon has been offered interests in a total of 18 blocks and part blocks which will translate into 9 new PEDLs. The new licences will cover a total area of approximately 1126 square kilometres (278,220 acres). This represents a significant proportion of the blocks for which Egdon applied. The new blocks to be offered are located in the East Midlands Petroleum Province and the Cleveland Basin and expand the Company’s acreage and opportunity base within these two core areas providing a mix of new, conventional and unconventional resource opportunities.
Results of Annual General Meeting
The Directors of Egdon Resources plc are pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting held at the offices of Norton Rose Fulbright on 3 December 2015, all resolutions put before shareholders at the meeting were duly passed unanimously.
At the meeting, Managing Director Mark Abbott presented a review of the business. The presentation will be available and can be accessed from the Company’s website: www.egdon-resources.com.
Details of the voting and proxies received can be viewed here
Grant of Options
Egdon Resources plc (AIM:EDR) announces that as part of its annual incentive review it has granted options to the following Directors. (Read more…)