Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) Plc Update on Wressle, North Lincolnshire

 
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Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc / Index: AIM / Epic: EOG / Sector: Oil & Gas 
 
28 November 2018 
 
          Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc ('Europa' or 'the Company') 
 
                     Update on Wressle, North Lincolnshire 
 
Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the UK and Ireland focused oil and gas 
exploration, development and production company, notes today's update from 
Egdon Resources ('Egdon') that its application for planning consent for the 
development of the Wressle oil field on PEDL 180 in the East Midlands ('the 
Application') was refused at today's meeting of the North Lincolnshire Council 
Planning Committee ('the Committee'). The application had been recommended for 
approval by North Lincolnshire County Council's planning officers. 
 
Egdon, with the full support of its partners, intend to appeal the decision 
without delay and will begin preparing the appeal documentation on receipt of 
the Committee's decision notice. Europa has a 30% working interest in Wressle 
alongside Egdon (operator, 30%), Union Jack Oil (27.5%), and Humber Oil & Gas 
Limited (12.5%) ('the Joint Venture partners'). 
 
Europa's CEO, Hugh Mackay, said: "Located in the heart of the East Midlands 
Petroleum province, recommended for development by the Council's own Planning 
Officer as well as independent consultants, and with the potential to generate 
meaningful production revenues for Europa, we believe the case for bringing the 
Wressle discovery into production is strong.  We therefore fully support the 
operator's continued efforts to advance Wressle, starting with the preparation 
of the appeal documentation as soon as possible." 
 
Egdon`s RNS published today is as follows: 
 
Egdon Resources plc (AIM:EDR) advises that its application for planning consent 
for the Wressle Development was refused at today's meeting of the North 
Lincolnshire Council Planning Committee ("the Committee"). The application had 
been recommended for approval by North Lincolnshire County Council's planning 
officers. 
 
Mark Abbott, Managing Director of Egdon Resources plc, said: "The decision of 
the Committee, whilst not entirely unexpected, is nonetheless disappointing 
given that the application had been recommended for approval by North 
Lincolnshire Council's own professional planning officer who had the benefit of 
a positive assessment by specialist independent technical consultants. 
 
We agree with the conclusion of the planning officer and the independent 
consultants and strongly believe the new application for the development of the 
Wressle oil field fully and comprehensively addresses the reasons for the 
refusal of the original planning applications and the subsequent appeals and 
therefore intend to appeal this decision without delay.  We will begin 
preparing the appeal documentation on receipt of the Committee's decision 
notice." 
 
Planning history: 
 
On 11 January 2017, North Lincolnshire Council refused planning consent for the 
original application for the development of the Wressle Oil Field at Lodge 
Farm, Wressle, North Lincolnshire. 
 
On 7 February 2017, Egdon announced that it would both appeal the decision of 
11 January 2017 and in parallel submit a new Planning Application for the 
Wressle development which would include even more detailed information to 
address the specific concerns outlined by North Lincolnshire Council in their 
refusal. 
 
On 11 April 2017, Egdon submitted an appeal against North Lincolnshire 
Council's decision to refuse planning consent. 
 
On 28 April 2017, Egdon submitted a new application for the Wressle Development 
including additional detailed information to address the specific concerns 
raised by North Lincolnshire Council in its 11 January 2017 decision to refuse 
the original application for the development of the Wressle Oil Field. 
 
On 19 May 2017, Egdon announced the issue by the Environment Agency of the 
variation to the Mining Waste Permit for the planned Wressle field development 
and associated operations. 
 
On 3 July 2017, the new planning application was also refused.  The variation 
of the existing planning for the site requesting a twelve month extension was 
also refused at the same meeting. 
 
During November 2017, a planning inquiry was held to consider the two appeals 
for development approval and the appeal of the variation of the existing 
planning for the site.  On 5 January 2018, we announced that the Inspector had 
rejected the appeals by Egdon against the two planning refusals by North 
Lincolnshire County Council's Planning Committee.  However, the Planning 
Inspectorate did uphold Egdon's appeal against the decision to refuse the 
application to retain the existing planning for the well site, which is was 
retained until the 28 April 2018. 
 
A new application to extend the current planning consent was submitted on 13 
April 2018 and refused 1 August 2018 and the company announced its intention to 
appeal the decision 
 
On 5 July we announced the submission to North Lincolnshire Council of a new 
planning application for the development of the Wressle oil field. 
 
The information communicated in this announcement contains inside information 
for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014. 
 
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For further information please visit www.europaoil.com or contact: 
 
Hugh Mackay       Europa                        + 44 (0) 20 7224 
                                                3770 
 
Phil Greenhalgh   Europa                        + 44 (0) 20 7224 
                                                3770 
 
Matt Goode        finnCap Ltd                   + 44 (0) 20 7220 
                                                0500 
 
Simon Hicks       finnCap Ltd                   + 44 (0) 20 7220 
                                                0500 
 
Frank Buhagiar    St Brides Partners Ltd        + 44 (0) 20 7236 
                                                1177 
 
Susie Geliher     St Brides Partners Ltd        + 44 (0) 20 7236 
                                                1177 
 
Notes 
 
Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc has a diversified portfolio of multi-stage 
hydrocarbon assets that includes production, exploration and development 
interests, in countries that are politically stable, have transparent licensing 
processes, and offer attractive terms. In 2018 Europa produced 94 boepd. Its 
highly prospective exploration projects include the Wressle development in the 
UK (targeting production start-up in 2019 at 500 bopd gross) and six licences 
offshore Ireland with the potential to host gross mean un-risked prospective 
resources of 6.2 billion barrels oil equivalent and 2.5 tcf undiscovered GIIP 
across all six licences. 
 
 
 
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