Swala Energy engages international advisory firm Gaffney Cline & Associates

Swala Energy (ASX:SWE) has engaged Gaffney Cline & Associates Limited, an international advisory firm headquartered in the United Kingdom, to complete a Competent Persons Report for its East African licences.

The company carried out three 2D comprehensive seismic programs over its Tanzanian and Kenyan licences in 2013 and 2014 and from this information identified a number of leads and prospects that are prime candidates for its previously announced upcoming drilling campaign.

The most significant of these is Kito, a prospect in the Kilombero basin, which a previous CPR (December 2013) estimated could contain gross prospective resources of between 48 (P90) and 424 (P10) million stock tank barrels of oil (MMstb).

Swala shall use this new CPR to provide an updated resource estimate for its East African licences.

Dr. David Mestres Ridge, CEO of Swala, commented:

“We now have an understanding of the potential volumes associated with our licences.

“The Australian Securities Exchange listing rules require these volumes to be confirmed by a qualified petroleum reserves and resources evaluator before they can be disclosed to the market, and it is for this that we have engaged GCA.”

Potential outcome of updated resource

Swala said that a potential outcome of the updated resource estimate is that if it triggers achievement of the definition by the company of P50 Prospective Resources of 200MMstb recoverable oil as independently verified to SPE-PRMS standards on the East African licences (the Milestone) by 12th April 2016 under the terms in the IPO Prospectus dated 12th March 2013.

Then then 5 million Class B Performance Shares would be converted into 5 million fully paid ordinary shares on the basis of one fully paid ordinary share for every one Class B Performance Share held, if the milestone is achieved.