Range Resources Limited is a dual listed (ASX:RRS; AIM:RRL) Trinidad-focused independent E&P company, with a 100% interest in three onshore production licenses, namely Beach Marcelle, South Quarry and Morne Diablo, as well as additional highly prospective exploration acreage on Guayaguayare license (farm in) and newly awarded St Mary’s licence.The Company is focused on growing its production through waterflood projects, combined with extensive shallow onshore development drilling programme.

The Company has independently assessed Proved reserves (2P) in place of 22.1 MMBO.

Range has further interests in Guatemala; Puntland, Somalia; Colombia; and Georgia.


http://www.rangeresources.co.uk/about.asp

Range Resources: Renewed, re-invigorated and with a laser focus on production

By Ian Lyall

July 04 2014, 8:33am
If you want to get ahead, wear a hat (a hard hat in this case). Chief executive Rory Scott Russell (centre) and his team discuss the way ahead in Trinidad.
If you want to get ahead, wear a hat (a hard hat in this case). Chief executive Rory Scott Russell (centre) and his team discuss the way ahead in Trinidad.


For those who’ve followed Range Resources (LON:RRL, ASX:RRS) over the last few years, its current incarnation under new chief executive Rory Scott Russell and his team is a world away from what went before.

Gone is the pre-occupation with the speculative. In its place is a laser focus on its assets in Trinidad and doubling production by the year-end to 1,000 barrels of oil a day.

The addition of a new cornerstone investor, Hong Kong-based Abraham Limited, brought in the US$12mln (at a 50% premium to the share price at the time) that was used to repay expensive convertible debt.

While Range has a strategic alliance with Chinese oil services firm LandOcean, which is valued at US$1bn and which is a specialist in water flooding that will help tap 14mln barrels of the Beach Marcelle acreage on the island.

Rather than relying on investors, the group plans to raise debt to develop its producing assets.

“This is a new beginning for Range,” Scott Russell told Proactive Investors.

“Substantially we are a re-launched company with a new management and a new strategy.”

That new management includes chief financial officer Nick Beattie, former managing director of bank BNP Paribas upstream oil and gas team, and exploration chief William Duncan, a 30-year veteran who previously led operations in Libya and Trinidad.

The aim is to bring the big company experience and discipline to a small firm – but without the overheads.

Initially, the plan is to increase production to 1,000 barrels.

The potential is there on the producing Morne Diablo, South Quarry and Beach Marcelle licences it bought in 2011.

A shallow well might take 10 days to complete and be ready for production in another week.

Okay, the initial production rate might be 20-75 barrels a day with a fairly steep decline. However, the well pays for itself in a couple of months.

With 12 of its own rigs on hand, the costs can range from a barely believable US$150,000 a well to perhaps US$750,000 for a deeper hole.

Moreover, Range has identified 175 targets that it can drill over the next three years.

The increasingly benign fiscal regime means that the economics of Trinidad soon start to stack up.

A back of the envelope calculation suggests that even at a rather a pessimistic US$15 a barrel ‘netback’ the group should be close to covering its costs at 1,000 barrels a day.

Analysts suggest the netback is more likely to be US$16-25 a barrel.

Scott Russell won’t be tied down to a longer term target, principally because he isn’t sure just how much money he will be able to secure as debt.

But it is fair to say 2,500 barrels looks like an achievable near-term target.

Range isn’t totally devoid of excitement – even though management’s mantra is that “boring is the new exciting”.

In the last round it picked up the St Mary’s Block and it is farming into Niko Resources’ Guayaguayare acreage on the south-east coast of Trinidad.

With this acreage position and P2 reserves of 22mln barrels, Range has come from nowhere to be the biggest private onshore operator on the Caribbean island.

“It means we are uniquely placed to take advantage of the incentives and the opening up of the onshore to international investment,” said Scott Russell.

“Big capital allowances are there that improve the fiscal terms and provide incentives to companies like ourselves.”

Outside Trinidad, Range has been involved in drilling two wells in Guatemala. Atzam-4 well was a discovery which is currently producing around 150 barrels a day and the Atzam-5 well is currently undergoing production testing.

Guatemala is one of the diverse set of assets the team inherited, but along with its holdings in Colombia its status in the portfolio is under review.

The group plans to exit Texas and the Republic of Georgia. For both assets the divestment process is already underway.

Meanwhile, Puntland, formerly the source of a great deal of excitement for followers of Range, will be retained.

“It is potentially high upside onshore acreage and the operator (Horn Petroleum) is very good. It is low cost to keep it going, so why wouldn’t we?” asks Scott Russell.

The shares, currently changing hands for 2.2p each, are up around 80% since Scott Russell joined in February this year.

But with a price target of 3.7p a share, Cantor Fitzgerald believes there is further significant upside.

“Range’s interest in Trinidad represents a low-risk, low-cost, high-profit production asset base, with exploration upside and potential for enhanced recovery. In our view, the reservoirs are shallow and well understood with geological risk being virtually zero, given the volume of historical drilling in the region.”,” said analyst Emily Ashford.

Result of meeting

RESULTS OF GENERAL MEETING

In accordance with Listing Rule 3.13.2, it is confirmed that the following
resolutions put to the General Meeting of Range Resources Limited, held on 11
July 2014, were passed on a show of hands:

Resolution 1 - Approval of Issue of Shares and Options

Resolution 2 - Ratification of Prior Issues under Financing Agreements

Resolution 3 - Approval for Share Placement


In addition, information required to be disclosed by the Company in accordance
with section 251AA of the Corporations Act is also attached.

A copy of the Notice of Meeting can be found on the Company's website.

Atzam #5 Well –Testing Operations Resume On C18 Carbonate Sections
Citation Resources Ltd (ASX: CTR) (Company or Citation) advises that testing operations are set to recommence on the Atzam #5 well, with the immediate program to be focused on the C18 carbonates located behind production casing above the final casing point at 3,600 feet. The testing program was recently delayed whilst Schlumberger sourced and delivered a larger 7 inch perforation gun from Mexico to location, which has arrived in recent days. The new perforation gun and tools have now been run in the hole on wireline and the next phase of Atzam #5 testing operations are now due to commence.
The larger 7 inch perforation gun will enable more of the targeted carbonate sections to be opened up to the wellbore, to help evaluate the commercial flow rate potential of each zone. The Atzam #5 testing operations will recommence on the C18 carbonate sections, starting from around 3,500 feet, and move up the wellbore to test the prospective sections located behind the production casing identified from the detailed log data. Testing operations have now moved from the open hole section of the well below 3,600 feet where the lower C18 and C19 carbonates were tested during June, which produced hydrocarbon but not in commercial volumes required by the project partners.
The Schlumberger logs analysis, combined with the significant oil shows from multiple zones whilst drilling, detail the commercial potential in the well from the C13 carbonates down to the C18 carbonate structures delineated in the Atzam #5 well. All these potential commercial pay zones will be perforated and tested as part of this ongoing program, until a zone produces at material commercial rates. On success such a zone would then be put on production, like the C17 producing zone in Atzam #4 that continues to produce under natural reservoir pressure at approximately 170 bopd.
Review of the Atzam #5 log data confirms the well has very similar reservoir characteristics to the Atzam #4 well. The full Schlumberger log dataset and associated drilling reports have been provided to the independent reservoir consultants Ralph Davis, who are currently preparing a detailed reserve report for the Atzam #5 well. The Atzam #5 log data also helps confirm the extension of multiple carbonate reservoir sections across the Atzam structure drilled to date.

Independent Atzam #5 Reserves Report

Following completion of the drilling operations at Atzam #5, the Operator ran a full suite of electric logs from the first carbonate sections intersected down to the well’s total depth of 4,025 feet. Leading global oilfield services firm Schlumberger has completed its independent review of the electric logs run across all carbonate sections in Atzam #5. The full suite of logging data and reports from Schlumberger have been passed onto Ralph Davis who are completing a reserve report on the Atzam #5 well and resource estimate for the Atzam Field.

Atzam #5 drilling success indicates upside potential

The Atzam #5 well being drilled close to the structural high of the Atzam Oil Field was confirmed through the intersected depths of primary reservoir sections in drilling operations. On completion of the Atzam #5 well at its TD is running approximately 66 feet high on structure to the Atzam #4 well and approximately 320 feet high to the Atzam #2 well. The Atzam #4 well was previously expected to be sitting on the crest of the Atzam structure and the Atzam #2 well recorded initial flow rates of in excess of 1,000 bopd from the primary C18/19 carbonate sections.

15 Jul Cantor... 3.70 Buy

Acquisitions underline growing interest and potential for small caps in Trinidad

By Jamie Ashcroft

July 17 2014, 3:44pm
Two acquisitions in two days in Trinidad has underlined the growing level of interest and potential for oil and gas companies on and round the Caribbean island.
Two acquisitions in two days in Trinidad has underlined the growing level of interest and potential for oil and gas companies on and round the Caribbean island.


Two acquisitions in two days in Trinidad has underlined the growing level of interest and potential for oil and gas companies on and round the Caribbean island.

Trinidad already has a well-established history of oil and gas production, with considerable supporting infrastructure including material refining capacity (about 160,000 barrels per day) and modern liquefied natural gas export facilities.

Indeed, with daily production in the order of 4.2bn cubic per day Trinidad is a significant gas player in the global market.

International oil and gas majors such as BP, BG, Centrica, Sinopec and Repsol all have a presence on the island. It is certainly not a virgin exploration frontier.

Like many maturing hydrocarbon postcodes, such as the North Sea or Nigeria, the typical emphasis here for small caps is on marginal or stranded discoveries and the re-generation of existing fields.

The former is a focus of Trinity (LON:TRIN), which has just acquired four discoveries from Centrica, while Leni Gas & Oil (LON:LGO) has pursued the re-development route with marked success.

Buying an 80% stake in Blocks 1a and 1b for US$23mln, Trinity is adding 268bn cubic feet of gas reserves in fully-appraised discoveries.

Six wells have already been drilled on the property and approximately US$220mln has been spent on the project by previous owners, and with excess demand for gas in Trinidad’s domestic market, Trinity believes the project's risks are minimal.

First production is anticipated in 2017 to 2018. To do that it will first aim to deliver a field development plan and a secure a gas sales agreement in the next twelve to eighteen months.

In the meantime, from its existing assets, Trinity expects to produce between 3,800 to 4,500 barrels per day – conservatively today the group said it would likely be at the lower end of the range.

Elsewhere, Leni’s Gas & Oil’s shares have enjoyed a near four-fold rise in the year to date as it first renovated the Goudron field’s old wells to increase production from around 30 barrels per day to over 450 barrels per day, before embarking on a programme of new drilling.

Results from the early wells in a thirty well programme suggest Leni will substantially eclipse current production levels.

The first new well, drilled with modern methods, had initial rates of 240 barrels a day, almost three times some pre-drill forecasts.

Currently the operation is focused on the third well, located at a nearby drill site, and results available to date have been similarly impressive.

With an extra rig due to join the campaign, Leni will be very busy at Goudron.

Nevertheless, that has not stopped the company adding another, similar, leg to the strategy with a deal this week to acquire the Trinity-Inniss field.

Here, oil is already flowing at a rate of 150 barrels a day from 24 active wells, and a number of ‘workover’ candidates have been identified to quickly boost those numbers. It is anticipated that Leni will follow a blueprint similar to Goudron here.

The field currently has 65mln barrels of oil reserves, and the upside is estimated at around 200mln barrels.

A £7mln funding announced by Leni today will help fund the acquisition, as well as supporting a programme of work-overs with a rig expected to be sent from Goudron to Trinity-Inniss once the deal is complete.

Range Resources (LON:RRL, ASX:RRS) is another oil junior favouring both the literal and figurative blue-sky in Trinidad.

Gone along with the previous management is the pre-occupation with the speculative. In its place is a laser focus on its assets on the island and doubling production by the year-end to 1,000 barrels of oil a day from the Morne Diablo, South Quarry and Beach Marcelle licences acquired in 2011.

It is very much an incremental cash-flow play with rapid, low cost shallow drilling - each well can take 10 days to drill and production can come just a week later.

As each well is forecast to produce a 20-75 barrels per day initially, before declining, the metrics appear modest, though due to the low cost and quick capital repayment, Range view the economics as attractive.

As many as 175 well locations have already been identified as targets for the next three years of drilling, and with 12 rigs of its own on the island, Range can progress this work with little fuss.

The initial target here is 1,000 barrels of production per day, but in the slightly longer term output in the order of 2,500 is potentially achievable.

Of course, if all are successful, rather than having three small companies it may make economic sense just to have one large Trinidad-focused entity and indeed that may turn out to be the end game for all of the participants.

Close on 5 billion shares now.


Change of Company Secretary,Registered Office &...

PRNW



Range Resources Limited
(`Range' or `the Company')

21 July 2014

ASX Code: RRS

AIM Code: RRL


Company Secretary Appointment/ Resignation, Change of Registered Address and
Appendix 3B

In accordance with ASX Listing Rule 3.16.1 Range Resources Limited (ASX: RRS
AIM: RRL) advises that Ms Amy Just has been appointed to the role of Joint
Company Secretary effective 21 July 2014.

Ms Just replaces Ms Sara Kelly as Joint Company Secretary. The Company would
like to thank Ms Kelly for her services over the period she has been Company
Secretary.

The Company would also like to announce the change of registered office to 945
Wellington St, West Perth WA 6005, Australia.

In addition the Company announces that 443,614,813 Ordinary Shares, 161,472,247
Unlisted Options (£0.01, 14 July 2018) and 118,729,593 Unlisted Options (£0.02,
14 July 2018) have been issued, details of the issue are below;

356,188,780 Ordinary Fully Paid Shares issued as per agreement with Abraham
(previous RNS dated 15 May 2014 and as approved by shareholders at the General
Meeting on 11 July 2014).

39,298,700 Ordinary Fully Paid Shares issued in respect of fees due to lenders
upon final settlement of debt agreements (previous RNS dated 3 June 2014)

10,000,000 Ordinary Fully Paid issued in respect of fees due to lenders upon
final settlement of debt agreements (previous RNS dated 3 June 2014)

7,500,000 Ordinary Fully Paid Shares issued for consulting fees as per
agreement

30,627,333 Ordinary Fully Paid shares issued on the exercise of options

118,729,593 Unlisted Options (£0.01, 14 July 2018) issued as per agreement with
Abraham (previous RNS dated 15 May 2014 and as approved by shareholders at the
General Meeting on 11 July 2014)

118,729,593 Unlisted Options (£0.02, 14 July 2018) issued as per agreement with
Abraham (previous RNS dated 15 May 2014 and as approved by shareholders at the
General Meeting on 11 July 2014)

42,742,654 Unlisted Options (£0.01, 14 July 2018) issued as per advisor fees
payable relating to the Abraham transaction.

Following the above the Company's issued ordinary share capital will be
4,964,816,681 ordinary shares.

Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the New Ordinary
Shares, which rank pari passu with the Company's existing issued ordinary
shares, to be admitted to trading on AIM. Dealings are expected to commence on
28 July 2014.

The above figure of 4,964,816,681 may be used by shareholders as the
denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are
required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the
share capital of the Company, under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency
Rules.

Please see Appendix A for the total number of securities on issue.

Yours faithfully


Rory Scott Russell

Chief Executive Officer

Quarterly Report

International Petroleum Loan Update

Summary of above:

StockMarketWire.com
Range Resources has signed a settlement agreement with International Petroleum with respect to repayment of Range's $8m loan by International Petroleum Ltd (IOP).

As part of a proposed merger in 2013, Range lent $8m to IOP under a A$15m loan agreement. The proposed merger was aborted in H2 2013 and the loan was due to have been repaid with interest on 30 April 2014. Due to IOP's financial constraints, it has been unable to repay the loan to date.

Range has agreed to extend the loan repayment date to 30 November 2014 to allow IOP to complete the sale of its Russian assets.

Upon conclusion of the sale, and according to the settlement agreement, IOP will make a cash repayment of $500,000 to Range and all other outstanding monies will convert into ordinary shares of IOP.

Following conversion, Range is expected to hold about 9% of the enlarged share capital of IOP. In addition, IOP will issue 5 million IOP options to Range exercisable at $0.06 in 24 months from issue date.

IOP is listed on the National Stock Exchange of Australia (NSX) and had a market capitalisation of AUD 71 million prior to suspension of trading in H1 2013. The securities of IOP are expected to be restored to trading on the NSX upon completion of the Russian assets sale and settlement of IOP's creditors, including Range.

The loan settlement remains conditional on IOP's shareholder approval on or before 30 October 2014 and agreement from other loan creditors of IOP to extend repayment of their debt on similar terms.

Broker spotlight - Meanwhile, broker Cantor Fitzgerald is upbeat on London and Aussie listed oil firm Range Resources (LON:RRL) today, rating it a 'buy', targeting 3.7p.

The firm revealed it was set to draw a line under its US$8mln loan agreement with International Petroleum (IOP).

Range’s management team continues to focus on clearing-up all outstanding issues left by their predecessors and that this solution for IOP recovers as much value from this situation as possible, said the broker.

“With IOP’s market cap at A$71m (prior to the suspension of trading), 9% of the share capital should be worth A$6.4m, but there are still significant milestones to pass (including the sale of assets) until this can be realised.”

Malcy's blog - Range Resources (LON:RRL)

More news today from Range as the restructuring continues, this time it is the long term fallout from the disastrous IOP bid coming back to haunt them. Range have quite correctly decided to try and get something out of this deal that is better than nothing and actually this looks better to me than I was expecting. Knowing that the $8m loan was not going to be repaid - it is already overdue- Range has extended the date to November 2014 at which stage it will hope for $500/- in cash and the rest will be converted into a 9% holding in IOP. In addition there are 5m IOP options exercisable at 6c for 24 months for good measure. This deal is eminently sensible, if IOP is as bust as it looks the loan would have been no good anyway and if it rises like Lazarus then they will capture a good part of the upside. It does however, show us just how much work the new management team has had to do in only six months at the helm for which they should be given a great deal of credit

Resignation of Director

Atzam 5 Well Update

PRNW



15 August 2014

ASX Code: RRS
AIM Code: RRL


Atzam 5 Well Update

Range Resources Limited (`Range' or `the Company')

Range notes the announcement released by Citation Resources Limited (ASX: CTR)
on the Guatemalan Project.

Investors are encouraged to read the full announcement, which can be accessed
at:

http://citationresources.com.au/media/articles/ASX-Announcements/20140815
Atzam-5-Testing-Update-and-Appendix-3B-305/
2014-08-14-Atzam-5-Testing-Update-and-Appendix-3B.pdf

Range has direct and indirect 24% interest in the Guatemalan Project.


Yours faithfully


Rory Scott Russell
Chief Executive Officer

15 August 2014
ASX Announcement
Atzam #5 Testing Program Continuing – Key Intervals Remain To Be Tested

http://citationresources.com.au/media/articles/ASX-Announcements/20140815-Atzam-5-Testing-Update-and-Appendix-3B-305/2014-08-14-Atzam-5-Testing-Update-and-Appendix-3B.pdf

AIM is fundamentally flawed

Perhaps the most important lesson is to recognise that AIM is fundamentally flawed. If a company’s directors wish to lie there are very few genuine safeguards in place to expose this. The Nomad system is a complete contradiction. How on earth are we meant to believe that regulatory overseers will be rigorous in pursuit of their tasks, when the people they are meant to oversee are the same people that pay their fees?

Whoever devised the Nomad system is either one of the most trusting fools ever to have lived or was blindly naive to the nefarious and rapacious ways of the City. The sooner it is scrapped the better.

If you accept the basic truth about AIM, this should hopefully make you aware of the risk that you are lied to on a regular basis, even through RNSs and official “audited” company accounts.

If the directors of a company are caught telling lies or withholding information, ditch the stock

Trust is the rarest, most precious and easily lost commodity on AIM. If the company you own shares in is ever caught telling a lie in official communication or withholding information, you should make a beeline for the exit. Lies of omission are equally bad. If the company refuses to answer difficult questions, there is only one conclusion that can be drawn.

The temptation is to view such instances as “one of those things”. This is a huge mistake. If a company director is caught in a lie, you should be greatly concerned what other nasty untruths might be lurking out there.

Consistently missed operational targets are the biggest warning sign

This applies to far too many companies on AIM, especially in the resource arena.

The implication of consistently missed operational targets has to be one of the biggest blind spots private investors have. When a company repeatedly fails to deliver what it says it will deliver, this should act as a red flag, signalling it’s time to head for the hills.

One of the main reasons why many directors of companies on AIM are quite content to miss targets is they recognise their businesses stand little to no chance of ever being commercial successes. Sadly there are also those listed “businesses”, which are little more than worthless paper selling enterprises, coated in the veneer of respectability afforded by an official stock market listing. In both instances directors are quite happy to string shareholders along for as long as possible, while enriching themselves at every turn.

Consultancy agreements, dodgy off take arrangements, discounted placements to friends and related parties, option agreements, opaque borrowing facilities, inflated asset purchases, deflated asset sales; there are so many ways to make money out of an AIM stock beyond officially recorded director fees.

You might think this is a conspiracy theory, but consider carefully any stocks you own which have never lived up to expectations and then take a careful look at the number of financial transactions the company has been in and also their complexity. The more transactions there are, the more you should be concerned about the fundamentals your company is based on. This is especially true if the financing arrangements are quite intricate. If it is unclear who the beneficiaries are and how much they stand to gain, the chances are this is not a stock being run in the interests of shareholders.

Appointment of Director

Range Resources closer to loan settlement

By Jamie Ashcroft

September 08 2014, 4:37pm
Range Resources closer to loan settlement

Range Resources (LON:RRL) revealed it has moved closer to settling a loan to International Petroleum (NSX:IOP) after the latter’s shareholders approved a disposal of assets in Russia.

IOP’s shareholders also approved the issue of shares to Range to satisfy the settlement of the loan, and all that is left to clear the matter is the release of the Russia assets to the buyer.

At the same time Range relayed an announcement regarding the Atzam project in Guatemala, where Citation Resources intends to evaluate the potential for commercial oil production via ‘acid wash’ stimulation processes.

Citation will start with an acid wash of the C18 interval in the Atzam 5 well, and if that section cannot produce at commercial volumes the programme will next test C17.

Cantor Fitzgerald Buy 1.56 1.55 3.70 3.70 Reiterates