Strata-X Energy: Serowe CBM Environmental Approval Advances
August 12 2019 - 6:00AM
The directors and management of Strata-X Energy Ltd. (“Strata-X” or
the “Company”) (TSX-V:SXE) (ASX:SXA) are pleased to announce that
following on the field-work, community consultations and
development planning, the Botswana Department of Environmental
Affairs has approved the form and scope of the Company’s new
Environmental Impact Assessment (“EIA”) on the Company’s Serowe CBM
Project. The Company EIA report is expected to be submitted for
final review in September 2019.
Once the EIA’s final approval is granted, which
is expected to occur in December 2019, Strata-X will have clearance
to drill and test up to 75 wells covering 3 prospecting licenses
within the high-grade area of the Botswana CBM fairway. In total
the Company holds ~320,000 acres (1,295KM2) within the identified
high-grade area spanning five 100% owned licenses. Previous
environmental approvals acquired in 2018, covering two of the
Company’s original Serowe CBM licenses, granted Strata-X the right
to drill and test 20 wells. Once the EIA’s final approval is
granted, Strata-X will have the authorization to drill and test up
to 95 wells covering all of the 100% owned high-grade area before
converting the area to full scale production licenses.
The high-grade area of the Botswana CBM Fairway
is interpreted to contain an average 10 metre net bright-coal seams
over a 50 metre interval with high gas saturations up to 100% and
2.38 TCF prospective gas resource net to Strata-X.(1) This
interpretation is re-enforced with the results of the Company’s
19B-1 well and historic core hole data, where these wells bubbled
free gas from the targeted bright-coals. The area immediately
surrounding Strata-X’s recently drilled and logged 19B-1 well was
certified to contain 2C Contingent Resources of 23 Bcf of natural
gas. The 19B-1 well intersected 18 metres of net coal with 12
metres of multi seam bright coals having up to 100% gas
saturations.
The Company’s focus on the high-grade area will
be a major growth driver. A multi-well appraisal drilling and
production testing programme within the high-grade area that steps
out from the 19B-1 well location is being planned and tendered. The
proposed programme, utilizing best practices learned from the work
to date, is designed to upgrade prospective resources to contingent
resources – with subsequent upgrades of contingent resources to
reserves contingent on proving commercial gas flow rates. The
multi-well appraisal programme will include the production testing
of wells to acquire fluid flow rate data as required to design a
multi-well CSG production pilot programme to prove commercial gas
flow rates.
The Company holds 4,784 KM2 (1,129,000 acres)
over the Serowe CBM Project with a certified Prospective Resource
of 6.05 TCF.(1)
About Strata-XStrata-X is a
Denver, Colorado (USA) based company and is engaged in the business
of oil and gas exploration and development with a variety of
exploration opportunities in the States of California and Illinois
in the United States of America and the Republic of Botswana.
Strata-X has 89,538,318 common shares outstanding and trades under
the symbol "SXE" on the TSX-V and "SXA" on the ASX.
For further information please contact:
Tim Hoops (USA) |
President |
+1 855-463-2400 |
info@strata-x.com |
This announcement was made in Canada for the TSX.V
and in Australia for the ASX.
Public documents for Strata-X Energy Ltd. can be
found at SEDAR (Canada) (www.sedar.com) and ASX.com.au
(Australia).
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