Chariot Limited, the Africa focused transitional energy group, is pleased to announce that the Stena Forth drillship has arrived on location and drilling operations have commenced on the Anchois East well (now named “Anchois-3”) at the Anchois gas project in the Lixus Offshore licence, offshore Morocco (Energean 45%, Operator, Chariot 30%, ONHYM 25%).

• Anchois-3 drilling and flow testing operations are expected to take approximately two months, with Chariot expected to be fully carried for the anticipated costs of the drilling campaign

• Anchois-3 is a multi-objective well with distinct operational phases:

Pilot Hole

An initial pilot hole will be drilled with the main objective to evaluate the potential of the Anchois Footwall prospect, located in an undrilled fault block to the east of the main field, which has a 2U Prospective Resource estimate of 170 Bcf in the main O Sand target

Main Hole

A side-track will then be drilled to intersect and further evaluate the discovered gas sands in the Anchois field, with a current 2C Contingent Resource estimate of 637 Bcf, in the eastern part of the main fault block of the field. The deeper Anchois North Flank prospect will then be drilled, which has additional 2U Prospective Resource estimate of 213 Bcf and which will also de-risk the nearby Anchois South Flank prospect with a 2U Prospective Resource estimate of 372 Bcf

Flow Test

Well flow testing will then be performed on selected encountered gas sands to evaluate reservoir and well productivity

Future Production Well

The well will be suspended to enable it to be used as a potential future producer

Adonis Pouroulis, CEO of Chariot, commented: “We are very pleased to commence this highly anticipated well at the Anchois gas field. We see significant upside potential and value from the prospective resources in the pilot hole and main hole targets which could increase the resource base to over 1Tcf and we look forward, on success, to moving towards a Final Investment Decision as quickly as possible. I’d like to thank the team for all their hard work across the planning, logistics and well design requirements to date and we look forward to providing further updates as we progress through the operational phases of this campaign.”