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PEDL253
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL253 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 35.80% 95.00 Conventional Appraisal Well suspended pending planning approval for a sidetrack, subsequent testing and long term production
PEDL181
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL181 Europa Oil and Gas Limited 25.00% 159.91 Shale and Conventional Exploration Operator reviewing prospectivity PEDL182
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL182 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 30.00% 19.00 Conventional Exploration Identify potential drilling locations for Broughton North prospect PEDL180
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL180 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 30.00% 40.00 Conventional oil Discovery Ashover Grit under test production since February 2021. All consents received for proppant squeeze planned for June 2021 PEDL241
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL241 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 50.00% 55.00 Conventional Exploration Pursuing further farm out of North Kelsey prospect PEDL201
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL201 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 45.00% 80.00 Shale and Conventional Exploration Evaluating future exploration options PEDL203
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL203 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 55.55% 10.52 Shut-in Oil Field Evaluating future exploration and development options PEDL118
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL118 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 55.55% 10.54 Shut-in Oil Field Evaluating future development options PEDL209
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL209 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 100.00% 64.11 Shale and Conventional Exploration Evaluating future exploration and development options post Laughton-1 dry hole PEDL140
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL140 Island Gas Limited (IGas) 14.50% 141.54 Shale Springs road-1 drilled to 3,500m Jan-March 2019 PEDL139
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL139 Island Gas Limited (IGas) 14.50% 100.00 Shale No planned activity, Springs road-1 well drilled on neighbouring PEDL140 PEDL043
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL043 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited (Deep Rights) 100.00% 57.00 Shale No planned activity PEDL169
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL169 Island Gas Limited (IGas) 20.00% 62.00 Shale No planned activity PL161-2
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PL161-2 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited (Deep Rights) 100.00% 17.62 Shale No planned activity PEDL005(R)
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL005 (remainder) Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 65.00% 16.73 Conventional Exploration and Production No planned activity on part block. Landowner agreement in place for Louth exploration well, planning application to follow PEDL005 (Keddington) Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 45.00% 7.00 Conventional Exploration and Production Keddingon in production, further drilling under consideration. PEDL005(R)
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL005 (remainder) Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 65.00% 16.73 Conventional Exploration and Production No planned activity on part block. Landowner agreement in place for Louth exploration well, planning application to follow PEDL005 (Keddington) Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 45.00% 7.00 Conventional Exploration and Production Keddingon in production, further drilling under consideration. PEDL001
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL001 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited (Deep Rights) 100.00% 11.00 Shale No planned activity PEDL306
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL306 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 60.00% 88.50 Shale and Conventional Exploration Commitment in first five years; 1 well, new 2D & 3D PEDL316
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL316 Island Gas Limited (IGas) 15.00% 111.19 Shale and Conventional Exploration Commitment in first five years; 1 well, new 3D PEDL334
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL334 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 60.00% 162.78 Shale Exploration Commitment in first five years; new 2D, drill 1 well or drop licence PEDL305
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL305 Island Gas Limited (IGas) 15.00% 143.00 Shale Commitment in first five years; 1 well, new 3D PEDL273
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL273 Island Gas Limited (IGas) 15.00% 194.65 Shale Commitment in first five years; 1 well, new 3D PEDL011
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL011 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited (Deep Rights) 100.00% 6.00 Shale No planned activity PEDL037
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL037 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited (Deep Rights) 100.00% 10.00 Shale No planned activity PEDL278
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme PEDL278 Island Gas Limited (IGas) 50.00% 38.00 Shale and Tight Gas Commitment in first five years; 1 well EXL294
Licences Operator Egdon Interest Area km² Exploration Targets Work programme EXL294 Egdon Resources U.K. Limited 80.00% 2.7 Conventional Oil Fiskerton Airfield producing oil field. Workovers planned to increase production
Egdon Resources has been active in the East Midlands from 2000. Historically the company’s activities have concentrated on conventional exploration and development. The margins of the Humber Basin have been a focus following the acquisition of the Keddington oil field in 2006 and Encore Resources onshore assets in 2010.
With the lifting of the fracking moratorium in September 2022 maintain and explore our significant portfolio of unconventional resources assets in the East Midlands
Activity has included
- the further development of Keddington,
- the discovery in 2014 of the Wressle oil field which was brought onstream in February 2021 under natural flow and after a proppant squeeze the full production rate of 500 b/d was achieved in August 2021
- the discovery of an oil column in Dinantian carbonates with the drilling of Biscathorpe-2 where a farm out of a proposed side-track (subject to planning consent) may also lead to a discovery in Westphalian sandstones
- the progression of farm out’s of company making prospect at North Kelsey.
- The drilling by IGas of the Basin Opening Shale exploration well Springs Road-1 in 2019
Latterly we have built a significant shale exploration acreage position in the Gainsborough Trough through legacy interests, farm-ins, the 2014 Alkane Energy acquisition the 14th Licence round and other acquisitions. The Basin was the subject of intense bidding in the 14th Round which saw INEOS and Cuadrilla enter the play.
We subsequently farmed out some of this acreage to Total and planning consent for the first shale exploration wells in the Basin Springs Road-1&2 operated by IGas on PEDL140 was granted in November 2016 (EDR 14.5% carried). In November 2017 INEOS acquired certain of total’s interests in the Gainsborough Trough shale play.
Other shale exploration activity planned prior to the 2019 Fracking Moratorium :
- In 2018 IGas and partner INEOS drilled a shale exploration well in the Basin at Tinker lane south west of the planned Springs Road well but failed to find the targeted shale Bowland Shale at this marginal location. The well did however find encouraging gas content in the Millstone Grit sequence
- INEOS had indicated that it planned to drill up to 6 vertical shale exploration wells in the Wellbeck Low sub-basin close to Egdon’s PEDL001 and PEDL130 licences and had submitted 3 planning applications as of August 2018. Two were granted on appeal and one remains to be determined.
- INEOS also shot around 150 km² of 3D seismic in this area in 2017/18
To the south the company has two licences in the Widmerpool Gulf which are prospective for shale and conventional oil and gas
To the east the company has licences in the Humber basin which are prospective for shale and conventional oil and gas
Project Sites
Gainsborough Trough, Wellbeck Low and Edale Basin
| Licences | Operator | Egdon Interest | Area km² | Exploration Targets | Work programme |
| EXL294 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited | 80.00% | 2.70 | Conventional oil | Fiskerton Airfield producing oil field. Workovers planned to increase production |
| PL161-2 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited (Deep Rights) | 100.00% | 17.62 | Shale | No planned activity |
| PEDL001 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited (Deep Rights) | 100.00% | 11.00 | Shale | No planned activity |
| PEDL011 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited (Deep Rights) | 100.00% | 6.00 | Shale | No planned activity |
| PEDL037 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited (Deep Rights) | 100.00% | 10.00 | Shale | No planned activity |
| PEDL043 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited (Deep Rights) | 100.00% | 57.00 | Shale | No planned activity |
| PEDL118 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited | 55.55% | 10.54 | Shut-in Oil Field | Evaluating future development options |
| PEDL139 | Island Gas Limited (IGas) | 14.50% | 100.00 | Shale | No planned activity, Springs Road-1 well drilled on neighbouring PEDL140 |
| PEDL140 | Island Gas Limited (IGas) | 14.50% | 141.54 | Shale | Springs Road-1 drilled to 3,500m Jan-March 2019 |
| PEDL169 | Island Gas Limited (IGas) | 20.00% | 62.00 | Shale | No planned activity |
| PEDL203 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited | 55.55% | 10.52 | Shut-in Oil Field | Evaluating future exploration and development options |
| PEDL209 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited | 100.00% | 64.11 | Shale and Conventional Exploration | Evaluating future exploration and development options post Laughton dry hole |
| PEDL273 | Island Gas Limited (IGas) | 15.00% | 194.65 | Shale | Commitment in first five years; 1 well, new 3D |
| PEDL278 | Island Gas Limited (IGas) | 50.00% | 38.00 | Shale and Tight Gas | The licence contains the Kirk Smeaton tight gas discovery (RTZ, 1985) and other conventional and unconventional prospectivity. Commitment in first five years; 1 well |
| PEDL305 | Island Gas Limited (IGas) | 15.00% | 143.00 | Shale | Commitment in first five years; 1 well, new 3D |
| PEDL316 | Island Gas Limited (IGas) | 15.00% | 111.19 | Shale and Conventional Exploration | Commitment in first five years; 1 well, new 3D |
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Humber Basin
| Licences | Operator | Egdon Interest | Area km² | Exploration Targets | Work programme |
| PEDL005 (remainder) | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited | 65.00% | 16.73 | Conventional Exploration and Production | Landowner agreement in place for Louth exploration well, planning application to follow. |
| PEDL005 (Keddington) | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited | 45.00% | 7.00 | Conventional Exploration and Production | Keddington in production, further drilling under consideration. |
| PEDL180 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited | 30.00% | 40.00 | Conventional oil Discovery | FDP for Ashover Grit formation of Wressle discovery submitted 2017. Revised development planning application submitted July 2018 and refused November 2018. Approved on appeal January 2020.Ashover Grit under test production since February 2021. All consents received for proppant squeeze planned for June 2021 |
| PEDL181 | Europa Oil and Gas Limited | 25.00% | 159.91 | Shale and Conventional Exploration | Operator reviewing prospectivity |
| PEDL182 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited | 30.00% | 19.00 | Conventional Exploration | Identify potential drilling locations for Broughton North prospect |
| PEDL241 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited | 50.00% | 55.00 | Conventional Exploration | Pursuing further farm out of North Kelsey prospect |
| PEDL253 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited | 35.80% | 95.00 | Conventional Appraisal | Discovery of an oil column in Dinantian carbonates with the drilling of Biscathorpe-2 where a farm out of a proposed side-track (subject to planning consent) may also lead to a discovery in Westphalian sandstones |
| PEDL334 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited | 60.00% | 162.78 | Shale Exploration | Commitment in first five years; new 2D, drill 1 well or drop licence |
Widmerpool Gulf
| Licences | Operator | Egdon Interest | Area km² | Exploration Targets | Work programme |
| PEDL201 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited | 45.00% | 80.00 | Shale and Conventional Exploration | Evaluating future exploration options |
| PEDL306 | Egdon Resources U.K. Limited | 60.00% | 88.50 | Shale and Conventional Exploration | Commitment in first five years; 1 well, new 2D & 3D |