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25 May 2021

ADM Energy PLC 

("ADM" or the "Company") 

ADM commissions new CPR on Barracuda Field

ADM Energy PLC (AIM: ADME; BER and FSE: P4JC), a natural resources investing company, is pleased to announce that it has commissioned Xodus Group Ltd ("Xodus"), a leading global energy consultancy, to produce an updated Competent Person's Report ("CPR") on the Barracuda Field.

The new CPR is the next step in the agreed scope of work under the Risk Sharing Agreement ("RSA") for the development of the Barracuda Field, in which the Company holds an indirect interest. The independent report will provide a full technical and economic review of the Barracuda Field, assessing the latest data to define the asset's geological profile and estimated gross in-place and recoverable oil and gas volumes from oil and gas accumulations located in NW OML 141 Licence Area, onshore Nigeria. Xodus will use the Society of Petroleum Engineers ("SPE") Petroleum Resource Management System ("PRMS"), updated in 2018, for classification of the oil and gas volumes. This provides more clarity on classification of resources than the PRMS of 2007.

Xodus is a multi-discipline global engineering consultancy with an extensive history of performing reserve and resource evaluations and CPRs. It has worked on numerous projects in Nigeria and West Africa, with clients including E&P operators, governments, financial institutions, intermediaries and investors.

The Barracuda Field is an existing discovery located in swamp/shallow waters, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. Four wells have been drilled in the Barracuda Field on OML 141; three in 1967 and the most recent, Barracuda-4, being drilled in 2007. A CPR prepared for Nobel Hill Network Limited by Ryder Scott in 2016, prior to the Company's involvement, produced positive results from logs and sidewall cores with hydrocarbon shows supporting an oil discovery at areas identified as D-1B and C3 levels. The report indicated P50 estimated prospective gross in place oil volumes of 1.3 billion barrels from two sand reservoir intervals.  Ryder Scott used the 2007 SPE PRMS for classification of volumes.

It is expected that the CPR will take four to six weeks. The Company will report the results to the market once completed.  

Osamede Okhomina, CEO of ADM Energy, said: "The new CPR is the springboard for the RSA Consortium's plans to develop the Barracuda Field and take the asset into production. It will validate the appraisal work already conducted by our internal technical team, which has defined immediate recoverable reserves and significant potential beyond. We believe that first oil of 4,000 BOPD may be possible and, subject to rig availability, could be achieved in H2 2021 by drilling an appraisal well (Barracuda-5). If this is successful, there may be the opportunity to further increase production to approximately 23,000 BOPD by drilling six wells by 2026.

"Since finalising the acquisition last month, we have moved swiftly to secure the services of key technical partners and have now officially commissioned Xodus to produce the CPR. We are pleased by progress at Barracuda to date and will continue to take a proactive role in driving the project forwards towards production." 

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About ADM Energy PLC

ADM Energy PLC (AIM: ADME; BER and FSE: P4JC) is a natural resources investing company with an existing asset base in Nigeria. ADM Energy holds a 9.2% profit interest in the oil producing Aje Field, part of OML 113, which covers an area of 835km² offshore Nigeria. Aje has multiple oil, gas, and gas condensate reservoirs in the Turonian, Cenomanian and Albian sandstones with five wells drilled to date.

The Company also holds an investment in the development of the Barracuda Field, an existing discovery and near-term production asset in the NW part of OML 141, which covers  103 km² in the swamp/shallow waters of the Niger Delta. Four existing wells have been drilled to date and a fifth is intended to be drilled in Q4 2021.

ADM Energy is seeking to build on its existing asset base in Nigeria and target other investment opportunities across the West African region in the oil and gas sector with attractive risk reward profiles such as proven nature of reserves, level of historic investment, established infrastructure and route to early cash flow.

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