EnCore Oil PLC

time will tell how wise you have been - or not ....meanwhile i watch PMO to see if 20.00 will hold

Am still i profit here and npe so will wait and see.

i am sure it will - cheers

some thing to hope for:

Commencement of Drilling Operations on Cladhan Appraisal Well

EnCore Oil plc (LSE: EO.) is pleased to announce that the Cladhan appraisal well 210/30a-4 located in Northern North Sea Block 210/30a was spudded at 20.00 hours on Monday 28 February 2011.

The objective of the appraisal well is to drill further down dip into the Cladhan structure, to the south east of the original 2008 discovery and subsequent 2010 side-track wells, to attempt to discover deeper oil in the structure.

The well is being drilled using the Transocean Prospect semi-submersible rig and is expected to take approximately 40 days, subject to weather and operational requirements.

The equity in Blocks 210/29a & 210/30a joint venture partnership is as follows: EnCore Oil plc (16.6 per cent.), Sterling Resources Limited (39.9 per cent., Operator), Wintershall (UK North Sea) Limited (33.5 per cent.) and Dyas UK Limited (10 per cent.).

Graham DorB.Sc. (Hons.) in Geology and M.Sc. in Petroleum Geology and EnCore's Exploration Director, who has over 20 years' experience in the oil exploration and production industry, has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this announcement.

EnCore Oil considers floating new company
StockMarketWire.com
EnCore Oil is considering floating a new company containing its exploration assets to raise money for a drilling programme.

The firm - which would have a significant stake in the new company - says it wants to maximise the potential value of its exploration portfolio and avoid undue further dilution of shareholders' interests.

Exploration of these assets would be at higher working equity levels than EnCore would have retained and allow the retention of operatorship control which would likely have been lost via individual farm-outs.

EnCore posts a loss attributable to equity holders of the parent of 3.8m for the six months to the end of December compared with a profit of 17.4m last time.

Operating losses fell to 3.6m - down from 8.2m - and the firm remains debt free with a cash balance of 31.0m compared with 41.9m at the end of June.

Been topping up here to:
Encore Oil initiated with buy rating at Arbuthnot, TP 211p

Possible takeover target? The rumours seem to be circulating. Looks as though someone seems to think so with a 10p rise today.

Was starting to wonder whether I should have sold a few weeks ago (was in at 15p), now wondering whether I should be topping up!

you know it's a crap day when a company comes out with a strong rns and sp falls! ...... a small extract gives the flavour, so perhaps today's pullback could be seen as a buying opportunity ....

The well has confirmed both the presence of a large oil column in the main Cladhan reservoir as well as a new hydrocarbon bearing reservoir sequence, and has yet to find an oil water contact.

Comment from the FT Oil sector watcher:
"After a 5% increase in the shares yesterday, an announcement from EO today that the second appraisal well on the Cladhan oil discovery in the North Sea has been successful (EO = 16.6% interest). The deviated well encountered oil bearing sands in two Jurassic intervals, the Upper zone had a gross column of 18 feet and a net of 13 feet and the Lower reservoir had a gross column of 256 feet and net of 21 feet. Whilst this net to gross is quite small (the appraisal well last August had a net to gross of 102 ft/159 ft), the well is believed to be in communication with the original Cladhan discovery. Moreover the group now believes that it has a minimum hydrocarbon column of 1200 feet. No oil/water contact has yet been found, although the rig will now drill a sidetack significantly downdip in an attempt to establish this should take around 20-25 days. Whilst no further reserves update has been provided, this looks like positive news. EO currently carries total contingent/prospective oil in place resources of 256m barrels on a P50 basis and 466m barrels on a P10 basis. Assuming 40% recovery, this could lead to recoverable reserves of 102m-186m barrels, or 17m-31m barrels net to EO. Whilst there is still a lot of work to do to understand what is clearly quite a complicated structure, this nevertheless looks good news. Along with its 15% stake in the Catcher/Varadero discoveries (15m-20m barrels net EO), Id say there is still material upside in the share price and Id be a buyer."

For immediate release: 5 May 2011



EnCore Oil plc ('EnCore' or 'the Company')





Cladhan Appraisal Update


EnCore Oil plc (LSE: EO.) announces that the Cladhan appraisal well 210/30a-4z located in UK North Sea Block 210/30a has reached Total Measured Depth of 15,900 feet (12,312 feet Total Vertical Depth Sub Sea).



The appraisal well was drilled as a side-track to evaluate the Upper Jurassic sands, approximately 1,000 feet deeper than the 210/30a-4 well. The side-track encountered two separate reservoir intervals with a gross True Vertical Thickness of 12 feet and 169 feet. Although hydrocarbon shows were encountered in both reservoirs, the sandstones have an average porosity of less than 10% and it has not been possible to confirm if the sands are hydrocarbon bearing and in pressure communication with the original Cladhan discovery.

Upon completion of operations at well 210/30a-4z, the Transocean Prospect semi-submersible rig will commence a second side-track well, 210/30a-4y which will drill into the shallower, Central channel to the South. It is expected that this side-track will take approximately 25 to 30 days subject to weather or operational delays.

Commenting on the latest well result, Alan Booth, EnCore's Chief Executive Officer said:

"The principal aim of this aggressive down-dip step out well, some 2,500 feet down-dip from the currently mapped crest of the structure, was to try and obtain three key pieces of information; the location of the oil water contact, either directly or indirectly; an understanding of the nature of any reservoir development in the down-dip 'fan' area of Cladhan; and to better understand if the low net to gross pay in the previous well was related to the specific depositional environment at that location, or if there was also some porosity reduction due to depth.



"I think we can now answer the second two points. There does appear to be an element of porosity degradation related to depth as well as the nature of the depositional environment. The fan area does appear to contain well developed reservoir sequences. However these would appear to have been affected by the depth of burial and at this location, do not constitute effective reservoir.



"The answer to the first point, the oil water contact, is more problematic as no pressure measurements or fluid samples could be obtained from the reservoir. However, oil shows were reported whilst drilling throughout the sequence which suggests there may be oil contained within the tight reservoir. If this is the case, it might suggest that the limit to producible hydrocarbons is potentially related to porosity reduction and that there is in effect no oil water contact. This is a situation that has previously been encountered in this part on the North Sea.



"We now expect to drill two more side-tracks from this well location, one to test the central channel to the south of, and up dip of, the previous well, and then a second side-track location somewhere close to the current rig location. Both these wells will add significantly to our understanding of hydrocarbon distribution in the Cladhan field".

Big fall today how do we interpret their RNS, presumably the market reaction is not good news.

nor the impact on my holding!

oh dear - side tracking again - seen some bad results elsewhere with that - lets hope not repeated here - i think you can guess who i mean by elsewhere!

still think the drop over done and a bounce tomorrow though

Hey guys take it on the chin these things happen especialy with oilers!!!!!!!....

exactly so, but one doesn't have to enjoy it :-))

Not in but this seems to be overdone...could be that EO. are unlucky to spring this news on a bad market day so they seem to have taken the blunt of a sharp sp markdown...

EO. has almost halve from its peak.

This lot must be taking lessons from DES


WATER............. :) LOL

oh dear - as my 453 i am not a fan of side tracking at all - this definitely limits potential here - we want oil not information - des & others have loads of information but nowt else - still i suppose still have the northern track - glad i concentrated on xel = others instead - sorry to anyone holding and caught out here - dont make eo worthless still good company just reduced potential at this time