Panoro Energy ASA（“anoro”或“公司”）欣然宣布，它已与赤道几内亚政府敲定条款并签署了一份海上 EG-23 区块的生产分成合同（“SC”）。Panoro 目前持有 EG-23 区块 80% 的参与权益和运营权。该公司的合作伙伴是 GEPetrol，持有 20% 的参与权益。Panoro 首席执行官

John Hamilton 表示：
“我们很高兴进一步扩大我们在赤道几内亚的业务。EG-23 区块是我们在该国运营的第二项资产，与我们以基础设施为主导的勘探和评估战略非常契合，增加了我们在现有生产设施连接距离内获取大量石油、天然气和凝析油发现、前景和线索的机会。我们期待与 GEPetrol 扩大合作，利用我们共同的核心地下技能来挖掘该区块的巨大上行潜力。”

EG-23 区块位于赤道几内亚比奥科岛北部近海，毗邻正在开采的阿尔巴天然气和凝析油田。EG-23 区块的面积约为 600 平方公里，水深从 50 米到 100 米不等，迄今为止已钻探了 19 口井，发现了七个碳氢化合物（四个石油、两个天然气和一个天然气/凝析油），其中一些已经过测试。该区块之前由 Marathon 持有。 Panoro 的技术评估表明该区块存在一系列的储量，并且除了现有的发现之外，还确定了一些潜在的储量和线索。根据现有数据，矿业和碳氢化合物部估计，该区块拥有约 1.04 亿桶石油和凝析油以及 2150 亿立方英尺天然气的潜在资源。

Panoro 和 GEPetrol 已获得 EG-23 区块的初始期限为三年，在此期间，他们将根据现有地震数据进行地下研究，以进一步确定和评估该区块的勘探前景。此后，合作伙伴将可以选择再签订两年的合同，在此期间，他们将钻探一口勘探井。

Panoro Energy ASA (“Panoro” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has finalised terms and signed a Production Sharing Contract (“PSC”) with the Government of Equatorial Guinea for offshore Block EG-23. Panoro now holds an 80 per cent participating interest and operatorship of Block EG-23. It is partnered by GEPetrol, which holds a 20 per cent participating interest.

John Hamilton, CEO of Panoro, commented:
“We are delighted to further expand our presence in Equatorial Guinea. Block EG-23 is our second operated asset in country and aligns well with our infrastructure-led exploration and appraisal strategy, increasing our access to a large inventory of oil, gas and condensate discoveries, prospects and leads within tie back distance of existing production facilities. We look forward to extending our partnership with GEPetrol to leverage our collective core subsurface skill sets to unlock the substantial upside potential that exists on the block.”

Block EG-23 is located offshore Equatorial Guinea north of Bioko Island and adjacent to the producing Alba gas and condensate field. Covering a surface area of approximately 600 km2 in water depths ranging from 50 metres to 100 metres, 19 wells have been drilled on Block EG-23 to date resulting in seven hydrocarbon discoveries (four oil, two gas and one gas/condensate), some of which have been tested. The block was previously held by Marathon. Panoro’s technical evaluation indicates a range of plays exist on the block and has identified a number of prospects and leads in addition to the existing discoveries which, based on existing data, are estimated by the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons to hold contingent resources of approximately 104 million barrels of oil and condensate and 215 billion cubic feet of gas.

Panoro and GEPetrol have been awarded block EG-23 for an initial period of three years during which they will conduct subsurface studies based on existing seismic data to further define and evaluate the prospectivity of the block. Following this, the partners will have the option to enter into a further two-year period, during which they will undertake to drill an exploration well.