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MEC RESOURCES LIMITED Investor Presentation 2011

Oct 17, 2011

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18 October 2011

Companies Announcements Office Australian Securities Exchange Limited 10[th] Floor, 20 Bond Street SYDNEY NSW 2000

Dear Sir/Madam

Company Presentation

Australian MicroCap Investment Conference, Melbourne, 18[th] October 2011

MEC Resources Ltd (ASX: MMR) is presenting today at the Australian MicroCap Investment Conference in Melbourne.

A copy of the presentation is attached.

Yours faithfully,

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David Breeze Executive Director MEC Resources Ltd PO Box 317 North Perth WA 6906 Tel: +61 8 9328 8477

About MEC Resources

ASX listed MEC Resources (ASX: MMR) invests into exploration companies targeting potentially large energy and mineral resources. The Company has been registered by the Australian Federal Government as a Pooled Development Fund enabling most MEC shareholders to receive tax free capital gains on their shares and tax free dividends.

About Advent Energy

Advent Energy Ltd is an unlisted oil and gas exploration company, held by major shareholders MEC Resources (ASX: MMR), BPH Energy (ASX: BPH), Grandbridge Limited (ASX: GBA) and Talbot Group Investments. Advent holds a strong portfolio of exploration and near-term production assets throughout Australia. Advent’s cornerstone project lies off the coast of NSW in Petroleum Exploration Permit 11 (PEP11), and comprises gas prospects of multi-Tcf capacity where Advent holds 85% of PEP11 with Joint Venture partner Bounty Oil and Gas (ASX:BUY) holding 15%.

Notes: In accordance with ASX listing requirements, the geological information supplied in this report has been based on information provided by geologists who have had in excess of five years experience in their field of activity.

MEC is an exploration investment company and relies on the resource and ore reserve statements compiled by the companies in which it invests. All Mineral Resource and Reserve Statements have been previously published by the companies concerned. Summary data has been used. Unless otherwise stated all resource and reserve reporting complies with the relevant standards. Unless specified, resources quoted in this report equal 100% of the resource and may not represent MEC’s investees’ equity share.

MEC Resources Ltd

ACN 113 900 020

PO Box 317, North Perth, WA 6906 14 View Street, North Perth 6006, Western Australia T: +61 8 9328 8477 F: +61 8 9328 8733 [email protected] www.mecresources.com.au

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Australian Microcap Investment Conference, Melbourne

Conventional and Unconventional Gas, Australia 18 October 2011

David Breeze– Executive Director

MEC Resources is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with stock code MMR

MEC Resources Limited

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MEC Resources offers investment into exploration companies seeking large energy & mineral discoveries

The Company is registered as a Pooled Development Fund enabling most MEC shareholders to receive tax free capital gains on their shares & tax free dividends

MEC targets new & emerging companies in which investments have potentially significant returns

MEC Resources currently has a major investment in unlisted oil and gas exploration company Advent Energy Limited

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Board

Board Members

Mr. Goh Hock: Chairman

  • Previous President of Schlumberger Asia. Managed all Asian operations including oil field services & outsourcing

  • 25 years with Schlumberger, held several field & management positions in the oil & gas industry across ten countries in EMEA

Mr David Breeze: Executive Director

  • Executive positions in Daiwa Securities, Eyres Reed McIntosh & BNZ North's

  • Involved in the structuring, capital raising & listing of 80+ companies raising over $250M

  • Chairman of Grandbridge Ltd and BPH Energy. Ltd & Executive Director of MEC Resources Ltd

  • Bachelor of Economics (University of Tasmania); MBA (University of Western Australia)

  • Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors of Australia

Mr. Eng Hin Tan: Non-Executive Director

  • Appointed to several senior management positions within Schlumberger across Asia

  • Initially a Field Exploration Engineer with Schlumberger in Brunei

  • Has held Technical Directorial and Managing Directorial positions several corporations in Asia

Ms. Deborah Ambrosini: Executive Director, CFO & Company Secretary

  • Corporate accountant with over 10 years experience in biotech, mining, IT communications & financial services sectors

  • Director of ASX public companies BPH Corporate & MEC Resources

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Industry Leading Geological & Geophysical Expertise

Mr Timothy Berge

Mr. Lan Nguyen

BSc (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

MA - Geology (University of Texas at Austin)

  • 25 Years Corporate experience, an Industry expert in AVO, Inversion, Workstation interpretation, Sequence and Structural Geology, Reserves certification and Risk Assessment.

Geophysics Manager, Forest Oil (1998-2006)

  • Developed technology for seismic recognition of coal and coalassociated pay. Expertise in Coals as a source rock and reservoir. Credited with several discoveries including West Forelands and Three Mile Creek gas fields.

Chief Geophysicist, Forest Oil International, Denver, CO (1998-2004)

  • Responsible for all of Forest’s international geophysical activities in South Africa, Gabon, Italy, Romania, Tunisia, Bavaria, Switzerland. Credited with discovery of Ibhubesi field, RSA (2000)

  • Lead Geophysicist, Exxon Ventures, West Siberia Group (1993-1996)

  • Coordinated Priob Field Tender Bid. Editor of Exxon / Sodeco / Dalmorneftegas Sakhalin TER (feasibility study). 2D and 3D seismic survey acquisition planning, processing, and interpretation

Awards and Affiliations

  • AAPG G&G Integration Committee Chairman, 2005-current

BSc (Baku, Azerbaijan)

MSc - Geology (New England University, Aus.)

  • Lan Nguyen is a professional petroleum geologist & engineer with over 20 years experience in petroleum exploration, development and production

  • He is currently a member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA), the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) & the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

  • During his 15 year tenure at Mosaic Oil N.L., an ASX listed petroleum exploration and production company, he played leading roles, initially in technical management positions subsequently as Managing Director, developing Mosaic Oil from a speculative petroleum explorer to a successful petroleum exploration and production company with growing production revenues & petroleum reserves/resources

  • He was credited with the discovery and development of many oil and gas fields in the Surat-Bowen Basins through his innovative introduction of various exploration, drilling and completion technologies to Queensland and Australia

  • Lan is currently a principal/director of Tanvinh Resources Pty Ltd and Surat Bowen Energy Services Ltd, which provide services to energy and resources companies in Australia and Asia-Pacific region

  • SEG Global Affairs Committee Chairman, 2001-2003

  • AAPG G&G Integration Committee Chairman, 2005-2007

Mr. Jim Dirstein

  • State of Texas Professional Licensed Geoscientist,

  • Active member of AAPG, SEG, RMAG, AGS, DGS, WTGS, HGS, SGV, and GSH

  • 25 years of international experience in oil industry including 12 years as principal of independent geophysical consulting company

  • Total Depth -Consultancy provides services including 2D/3D for prospect generation/appraisal/development and business development internationally & locally with Australian petroleum & minerals companies

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Advent Energy Shareholding and Assets Structure

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Other shareholders including
MEC Resources Ltd BPH Energy Ltd
Grandbridge Ltd (ASX: GBA), &
ASX: MMR ASX: BPH Talbot Group Investments
27.4%
44.9% 27.7%
Advent Energy Ltd
unlisted
Top 20
100 100
Shareholder
% %
Asset Onshore Central
Energy Energy Petroleum Ltd
Pty Ltd Pty Ltd ASX: CTP
85% 8.3% 100%

Permits covering
270,000 km [2] across
PEP11 EP325 EP386 & RL1
central Australia
offshore Carnarvon Onshore • 10 billion bbl UOIIP
Sydney Basin Bonaparte and 100Tcf UGIIP in
conventional and
Basin Project Project Basin Project
unconventional plays
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Offshore Sydney Basin – Proven Petroleum Basin with Potential Huge Gas Reserve

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EP386 & RL1
Onshore Bonaparte
Lord Howe Rise:
Basin
• 4.5 billion boe
EP325 • 98.5% methane
PEP11
Offshore Sydney Basin
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“…sea floor spreading commenced at 65-70 million years before present resulting in the separation of the Lord Howe Rise from the east coast of New South Wales (NSW Bureau of Mineral Resources)”

“a speculative estimate of petroleum resources within Australian jurisdiction on the Lord Howe Rise is about 4.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent (Willcox & Symonds, 1997)”.

[Fred Kroh, Geoscience Australia]

“Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 164 recently drilled three locations on the crest of the Blake Ridge to assess the composition and amount of gas in its gas hydrate deposit (Paull et al, 1996). All gas recovered exceeded 98.5% methane.”

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Beach Energy: $39 M
Conventional and
Unconventional Farm-
in to Onshore HESS: $65 M Shale Gas
ConocoPhillips: $109M EP386 & RL/1
Bonaparte Basin JV with Falcon
Shale Gas JV with New
Australia
Standard Energy
Australia
Beetaloo
Canning Basin
Basin
EP325
Shale depth:
1500-3000m
Sydney
BG: $130M Shale
Gas
JV with QGC
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Advent Energy EP 386: 634,567 Acres = 2568 sq km RL 1: 41,019 Acres = 166 sq km Thermally Mature, Thick Source Rock (>500m) Large Unconventional Resources Complex (Oil & Gas) Many Large Structures With Conventional Gas Discovery

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Prospects in Advent Portfolio

Block
Asset
Advent
interest
Gross Prospective Recoverable Gas Resources
Bcfg
Gross Prospective Recoverable Condensate
Resources MMbo
Probablility
of Success
P90
P50
P10
Swansons
Mean
P90
P50
P10
Swansons
Mean
%
PEP 11
Fish
85%

28.6
2,131.2
35,491.8
11,508.6

0.0
0.1
1.8
0.6
21.0%
Permian /Baleen
85%

17.2
472.2
4,193.3
1,452.0

0.0
0.0
0.2
0.1
18.9%
TriassicShark
85%

44.1
752.2
10,656.0
3,510.9

0.0
0.0
0.5
0.2
16.8%
Trout
85%

12.1
232.6
1,757.3
623.9

0.0
0.0
0.1
0.0
17.9%
Orca
85%

15.7
302.3
2,283.7
810.7

0.0
0.0
0.1
0.0
20.2%
Squid
85%

11.4
218.1
1,647.7
585.0

0.0
0.0
0.1
0.0
13.6%
Blue
85%

15.5
297.9
2,250.6
799.0

0.0
0.0
0.1
0.0
7.5%
Blue Whale
85%

66.2
1,271.6
9,607.6
3,410.8

0.0
0.1
0.5
0.2
7.5%
South Squid
85%

66.2
289.7
2,189.1
777.2

0.0
0.0
0.1
0.0
13.5%
PEP 11 Total 277.0
5,967.8
70,077.1
23,478.1

0.0
0.3
3.5
1.2
EP 325
Rivoli
8.3%

5.41
9.49
14.40
9.74

0.44
0.44Contingent
Resource
Rivoli East
8.3%
3.13
8.79
16.4
9.4
Oil Prospect
Rivoli Deep
8.3%

1.24
2.31
3.63
2.39

Gas
Prospect
Whalebone
8.3%
4.68
14.7
28.4
15.8
Oil Lead
Web
8.3%
2.26
4.95
8.4
5.18
Oil Lead
Fly
8.3%
1.99
4.22
7.08
4.41
Oil Lead
RL1
Weaber
100%

0.25
11.5
45.8
18.4

Contingent
Resource
EP386
Waggon Creek,
Vienta,
Bonaparte
100%
20 Gas + Oil
Prospects
Others Total 6.9
43.3
63.83
30.4

12.06
33.1
60.3
35.2
Total 283.9
6,011.1
70,140.9
23,508.6
0.0
33.4
63.8
36.4

Bonaparte Sedimentary Basin – Oil & Gas Producing Basin

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Onshore Bonaparte Basin Conventional Reservoir Discoveries & Prospects/Leads

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Proximity of Current Operations on Ord Phase 2
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Vienta Gas Field – Abuts Stage Two Ord

Advent Energy Onshore Gas field – Advent Energy Onshore Gas – RL1 EP386 Weaber Gas Field Waggon Creek Gas Field (Cased & (Independently Suspended as future Audited Mean producer) Contingent Resource of 18.4 Bcf) Advent Energy Onshore Gas – EP386 Vienta Gas Field (Cased & Suspended as future producer) Planned future Northern Territory Stage Ord Scheme Stage Two Existing Secondary Ord Scheme Access (2011/2012) Road

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EP 386 & RL/1:

Petroleum System and Nearby Cross-Section

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Source Rock:

Milligans Formation--Thick marine shale dominated sequence with TOC 1.82%.

Source Quality:

Oil and gas prone.The terrestrial nature (Type III) predisposes gas production

Maturity:

Peak generation and expulsion of hydrocarbons from Late Carboniferous to Middle Triassic

Reservoir Rock:

Mainly Milligans and Kuriyippi Formation (primary reservoir) Ningbing Limestone and Langfield Group sandstones (potential)

Seal:

Treachery Shale (regional), Intraformational Seals

Trap Types: Faulted and drap anticlines/horsts

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Bonaparte Basin, Australia

Wide distribution of oil and gas shows and tests throughout basin

Advent Energy has 100% of EP 386 & RL 1 including gas discovery wells Vienta-1, Waggon Creek-1, Bonaparte-2, Garimala-1 & Weaber Field

This is an active hydrocarbon system

Source from Geoscience Australia: GA6928; Petroleum Systems of the Bonaparte Basin

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Bonaparte Basin Exploration Permits Subject to Beach Energy’s Farmin Agreement with Territory Oil and Gas.

Lower Milligans Formation: Unconventional Gas Potential Area

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Vienta-1 workover and production test gas flow October 2011. Results to be published in due course

Vienta-1: Elevated Gas Shows over mid-Upper & Lower Milligans Section

Weaber-4: Elevated Gas Shows over Lower Milligans Section

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Elevated Gas Shows Over Shaly &
Silty Section of approximately 850 m
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Elevated Gas Shows Over Shaly Section of approximately 350 m

Ningbing-2: Elevated Gas Shows over Lower Milligans-Langfield Section

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Elevated Gas Shows Over Shale/Siltstone Section of approximately 650m

Pincombe-1: Elevated Gas Shows over Lower Milligans-Langfield Section

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Elevated Gas Shows Over Shaly Section of approximately 300m

Waggon Creek-1A: Elevated Gas Shows over Lower Milligans Section

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Elevated Gas Shows Over Shaly & Silty Section of approximately 400 m

Milligans Shale/Shaly Siltstone Geochemistry

Well Milligans (m) Thickness
(m)
Depth (m) TOC % (Cutting
Samples)
Ro% (Cutting
Samples)
TOC % (Core
Samples)
Ro% (Core
Samples)
Bonaparte 1 Medium grey
shale/siltstone (70-
100%)
1448m From 496 to
2280m
0.18-1.33/0.76 0.44-0.94/0.67
Bonaparte 2 Dark to grey shale
(60-95%)
1435m From 480 to
2052m
0.704-
1.048/0.84
0.45-1.84/0.92 0.58-0.70 (1079-
1206m)
Garimala 1 Dark to grey
claystone /siltstone
(60-90%)
940m From 249 to
1829m
0.811-
1.143/0.99
Ningbing 1 Dark grey to grey
shale/siltstone (65-
95%)
545m From 21 to
1013m
0.82-1.37/1.10 0.53-0.69/0.61
Ningbing 2 Medium to dark
grey shale/silty
shale (60-100%)
600m From 12 to
1172m
Vienta 1 Dark to grey shale
(70-95%)
760m From 34 to
1122m
Waggon
Creek 1A
Dark to grey
siltstone/claystone
(60-100%)
500m From 22 to
943m
0.54-1.33/0.79
Skull 1 Medium dark grey
siltstone/shale(60-
100%)
800m From 520 to
2000m (TD)
0.12-2.22/0.71 0.66-2.42 (from
408m -1782m)
Weaber 1 Medium dark grey
siltstone/shale(70-
100%)
686m From 430 to
1206m
0.29-0.99/0.70 0.42-0.61/0.50
Pincombe-1 Medium dark grey
siltstone/shale(60-
100%)
280m From 80 to
423.8m
0.56-0.89/0.75

Bottom Milligans is: >1500m Depth Area=875km[2 ]

Conference of Shale Gas World Australia 2011 in Adelaide

Analogy of EP 386 Shale Gas Potential and Maryborough Basin

Basic Data Basin/Gross Area Basin/Gross Area Maryborough Basin
**(4.290mi2) **
Onshore Bonaparte Basin-EP386
**(991mi2) **
Shale Formation Goodwood/Cherwell Mudstone Milligans Shale /siltstone
Geologic Age Cretaceous Carboniferous
Physical Extent Prospective Area (mi2) 1,555 580 (0.37)
Thickness (ft) Interval 300-3,000 1,640-4,700
Organically Rich 1,250 2,000
Net 250 1,000 (4)
Depth (ft) Interval 5,000-16,500 5,000-10,000
Average 9,500 7,000
Reservoir
Properties
Reservoir Pressure Slightly Overpressured Slightly Overpressured
Average TOC (wt%) 2.0% 0.84 (0.42)
Thermal Maturity (%Ro) 1.50% 1.0% (0.67)
Clay Content Low Medium
Resources GIP Concentration (Bcf/mi2) 110 46
(1100.3740.420.67)
Risked GIP (Tcf) 77 32.2
Risked Recoverable (Tcf) 23 9.6

Bonaparte Basin Stratigraphic Column & Petroleum Occurrence

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  • Up to 18km of Sedimentary and Volcanic Rocks from Cambrian to Cainozoic in Bonaparte Basin

  • Over 5,000 m of Sedimentary section in Onshore

Bonaparte Basin

  • Multi Sandstone Reservoirs with Gas Flow

  • Early Rift System with Later Compressional Structures Constrained by Marginal Fault System

Source from : YEAR 1 TECHNICAL REVIEW OF GEOLOGY, GEOPHYSICS AND PRODUCTION TESTING BONAPARTE BASIN OF NORTHERN TERRITORY Prepared forAmity Oil Limited

By Milton Schmedje and Peter Kirk June, 2002

Onshore Bonaparte Basin Milligans Formation Petroleum Plays

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Milligans Formation – Main Tight Gas & Shale Gas Plays:

  • Key source rocks

  • Over 500m marine shale/mudstone

  • TOC up to 2.2%

  • Gas-Prone

  • Mature for Oil and Gas

  • Elevated gas shows while drilling through the shaly and silty section

  • Gas discoveries in conventional sandstone reservoirs in Waggon Creek-1 & Bonaparte-2

Garimala-1 Tight Gas Sands in Cockatoo Group

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DST#2 over interval 23852405m flowed gas to surface initially at rate of 21,240 m[3] /d (0.75 mmscfd) decreased to 13,310 m[3] /d (0.47 mmscfd) during 2 hr flow period

Reference: GARIMALA NO.1 Well Completion Report Prepared by O.W.Nugent (Consultant) July.1989 for Santos Limited

Ningbing-2: Tight Gas Sands in Upper Milligans Fm

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Gas Peaks Over Tight Sands DST#5 over interval 410412m flowed gas to surface at rate too small too measure

Reference: Ningbing NO.2 Well Completion Report Prepared Shane Hibbird for AMITY OIL NL. Technical Report No. AYO 29

Garimala-1 Tight Gas Sands in Cockatoo Group

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DST#2 over interval 23852405m flowed gas to surface initially at rate of 21,240 m[3] /d (0.75 mmscfd) decreased to 13,310 m[3] /d (0.47 mmscfd) during 2 hr flow period

Reference: GARIMALA NO.1 Well Completion Report Prepared by O.W.Nugent (Consultant) July.1989 for Santos Limited

Waggon Creek-1A : Tight Gas Sands in Burt Range Fm

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Gas Peaks Over Tight Sands DST#1 over interval 960.75-1095m flowed gas to surface at rate too small too measure

Reference: Western Australia Oil & Gas Review—November 1996

EP 386 Shale Gas & Tight Gas Potential Conclusions

  • Multiple petroleum targets are present in EP 386 & RL1 area:

  • Proven conventional gas charged sandstone reservoirs in nearshore marine area of the Milligans Formation;

  • Unconventional gas-condensate shale play in the shallow marine areas of Lower Milligans Formation;

  • Unconventional tight gas sandstone and limestone reservoirs in the Langfield, Ningbing & Cockatoo groups below the Milligans Formation.

  • Lower Milligans Formation shale is prospective for shale gas play with considerably large upside potential:

  • Marine shale with moderate organic richness: TOC of up to 2.2% from samples in wells within or in close proximity of EP 386. Higher TOC could be present in the deeper offshore area north & east of EP 386;

  • Source rocks are mature for gas and oil generation: Ro range 0.44-2.42% & Tmax range from 430 to 480;

  • Limited geochemical data indicates source rocks at depth shallower than c. 1400m are mature for gas/wet gas and oil generating windows, but overmature and in the dry gas generating window at depth below 1400m.

  • The thickness of the prospective shale gas play is varied from 300m to over 1500m. This would provide significant upside in prospective shale gas resources

  • Unrisked OGIP for EP 386 & RL 1 could be in the range from c. 19 TCF to 141 TCF

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EP 386 Shale Gas Unrisked Gas In Place Estimates

Lower Milligans Fm EP 386 & RL 1

Parameters Unit Low Best High
Area - A Acres 197,683 296,525 345,946
Pay Thickness -h Ft 1310 1640 1968
Net to Gross Ratio - r Dec. fraction 0.6 0.6 0.6
Effective Matrix Porosity -
m
Dec. fraction 0.02 0.03 0.04
Fracture porosity -
f
Dec. fraction 0.04 0.05 0.06
Formation Volume Factor - FVF 70 75 75
Matrix Water Saturation - Swm Dec. fraction 0.6 0.58 0.55
Water saturation of the fracture porosity - Swf Dec. fraction 0.5 0.4 0.3
Adsorbed Gas Storage Capacity - Gs Scf/Ton 15 30 50
Shale Density - G/cm3 1.9 2.1 2.2
Original Gas In Place - OGIP TCF 19.29 65.60 141.17

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Australia’s LNG Potential

LNG Market Forecasts

Pacific Basin Supply Forecast

  • Ongoing demand for Australian LNG from Korea & Japan is likely due to heavy investment in gas-fired power generation facilities with no domestic gas sources

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  • LNG accounted for one quarter of world gas trade in 2008, equal to 7 per cent of world gas consumption

  • With fewer international pipelines in the Asia Pacific region, the share of gas trade met by LNG is much higher, at 83% (around 31% of consumption)

  • China & India are both key importers, with commitments to reduce green-house emissions

  • Gas purchasers report difficulties in securing gas contracts extending beyond build dates for LNG facilities in 2014-15

  • In Australia, prices reflect local supply & demand fundamentals, characterised by low consumption and high reserves

  • The proposed introduction of LNG exports from the East coast is set to alter this dynamic

  • Domestic gas prices are predicted to be closer linked to the International LNG market going forward

Source: Australian Bureau of Agricultural & Resource Economics 2010, Wood Mackenzie, Deutsche Bank

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Australian LNG

Operator Project Size Production / Sales $Export Value
per year
(ABARE 2008
data)
Life
Woodside Pluto 4.1 Tcf
(+ 0.5 Tcf Xena)
3.25-3.75 Mtpa LNG $2.03 billion 15 years
(+5 yr
option)
Inpex Ichthys 12.1 Tcf 8 Mtpa LNG
1.6 Mtpa LPG
+ condensate
$4.4 billion
(LNG only)
40 years
Chevron Gorgon 40 Tcf 3 x 5 Mtpa trains $8.25 billion 60 years
Shell Prelude ~5.4 Tcf + 3.6 Mtpa FLNG
1.3 Mtpa Cond.
400 ktpa LPG
$1.98 billion
(LNG only)
25 years
Advent PEP11 6 Tcf* (P50)
  • Prospective exploration target only - yet to be discovered

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Company Overview

Background

Key Asset –Offshore Sydney Basin

 Formed in 2004 as an independent E&P company

Newcastle

  • Headquartered in Perth, WA

  • Portfolio of assets both onshore & offshore Australia with an estimated AUD 156m invested historically on exploration

 Cornerstone asset in PEP 11, covering the entire Offshore Sydney Basin

  • Prospective recoverable resources of 6 TCF (P50)

  • Swansons Mean 23 TCF

  • Relatively shallow waters (50-200 m) and directly adjacent (<50 km) to Australia’s largest gas market

  • Focus on search for direct and indirect Hydrocarbon Indicators

Sydney

  • Geological analogies to proven, producing fields such as the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil and the Ormen Lange field in Norway

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Drilled the First Well Offshore NSW

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  • •Semi-submersible drilling rig Ocean Patriot

  • •December 2010 spudded New Seaclem-1

  • •One well program completed incident free and on schedule

•Revision of reprocessed seismic; updated permit recoverable resource potential of 6 Tcf (P50) and 23 TCF Swansons Mean

  • •First well to explore for natural gas in the offshore Sydney Basin-Advent earned 85%

  • •Well logs show a Tertiary sandstone unit of>40 m thickness and average porosity of 30%

  • •Drilling sample mature for hydrocarbons- early permian

Portfolio – Offshore Sydney Basin PEP11

  • Advent has increased its interest to 85% from 25% in PEP11 (8,250 km[2] ) following drilling first

  • exploration well.

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  • No drilling had previously taken place in the offshore

  • Sydney Basin. Since 1910, 66% of onshore petroleum exploration wells have shown hydrocarbons and 41% have flowed gas on test.

  • For 175 years coal has been mined from the

  • Newcastle coalfields in the Hunter Valley.

  • Comparisons with Moonie Oil Field.

  • Active seepage has been detected along the

  • PEP11/continental margin.

  • Significant hydrocarbon and migration features have

  • been observed in 1981,1991 and 2004 seismic profiles, including gas chimneys, HRDZs, anomalous AVO, reverse polarity events, and possible flat spots.

  • Possible gas charged Cainozoic, Permian/Triassic reservoirs; excellent potential for natural gas

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Permit History & Progress

Historical Ownership of Permit

Progress through involvement of Advent

  • During the 1980s, Santos Ltd. shot extensive 2D seismic over PEP11

  • At the time, the prospect was not developed further:

  • Gas prices rendered the field uneconomical

  • Santos had committed to develop its Cooper Basin assets as a first priority

  • From 1992, PEP11 was held by small Australian exploration companies without progress being made

  • Advent farmed into a 25% interest in 2006 through acquisition of 2004 seismic, increased to 85% following drilling of New Seaclem-1

  • Significant geological & geophysical work completed since Advent’s farm-in:

  • Fugro Ltd reprocessed 1,460km seismic shot in 2004 & integrated with 2,300km legacy data obtained from Santos

  • Prospective recoverable resource estimates have been independently validated

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Significant Hydrocarbon Potential proven by Industry Standards

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Features Observed Across Permit
Mound
Pockmark B4-18
(Reprocessed)
AVO
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  • The permit’s potential is evident in the significant and complimentary hydrocarbon & migration features observed

  • Direct hydrocarbon indicators identified in seismic data

  • high amplitude bright spot reflections

  • attenuation of high frequencies in instantaneous frequency plots

  • bright spot features in Root Mean Squared amplitude plots

  • Gas chimneys, HRDZs, anomalous AVO, reverse polarity events, flat spots are also present

  • Seepage has been observed and recorded via Landsat across areas of the permit

  • Echosounder seeps and sizeable pockmarks are observed within the permit area and covering the offshore continental slope

  • Repeated Hydrocarbon seep samples show a thermogenic source

  • Independent inshore Hydrocarbon Seep Gas analysis shows high gas content

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HRDZ
Flat Spot
B4-15
(Reprocessed)
B4-16 (Reprocessed)
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Norway:
Ormen
Lange
14 Tcf
Source: European Commission
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Offshore Sydney Basin

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Pockmark over 282,000m [3 ]
Image courtesy Ron Boyd,
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Geophysical Gas Indications

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TOPAS Sub bottom profiles from SS10 / 2006

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B4-16 Preliminary Final PSTM (Zoom)

Data reprocessing from phase 2, 2009 indicates a flat spot on the time processing within structure on line B4-16 which may warrant further investigation. Area of interest is cmp 900 to 1060 (2 km) at a time of 1500ms and 1700ms. Note polarity of flat spots is opposite to the seafloor indicating a likely soft response.

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Contributions Gratefully Acknowledged and References

Data, advice, review and technical contributions gratefully acknowledged

  • •Jim Dirstein - -Total Depth - Principal Geophysical Consultant PTEM

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  • •Fred Kroh –Formerly Project Leader of Geophysical Processing and Data Access Project - Geoscience Australia

  • •Tim Berge –Geophysical Consultant -

  • •Deet Schumacher -Terraliance

  • •Dan Orange

  • •Fred Aminzadeh

  • •David Connolly

  • •Michael Abrams

  • •Professor Ron Boyd –Newcastle University

  • •Andrew Mayo –Macquarie Oil –

  • •Kriton Glenn –Geoscience Australia

  • Ben Clennel , Asrar Talukder and team (CSIRO Subsurface Prediction and Description )

  • •Geoff O’Brien –Formerly Geoscience Australia

  • •Ding Gui Ming –Principal Geological Consultant

  • •Associate Professor Jock Keene –Sydney University

  • •Kevin Ruming - School of Environmental and Life Sciences University of Newcastle

  • •BOS

  • •Oil Hunters

  • •Bounty Oil

  • •RPS

  • •BGP

  • •John Cant

  • •Allan Williams -NPA

  • •Mike Rego – Aminex

  • •Tom Fontaine

  • •Fugro

  • •Geosience Australia

  • •Crown Minerals NZ

  • •Kieth Woolard

  • •David Orth

  • •David Remus

  • •Clem Allsworth

Publications

  • •AAPG Memoirs ‖Hydrocarbon migration and its Near surface Migration‖

  • •Judd A and Hovland M ―Seabed Fluid Flow‖

  • •Whelan J Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ―Dynamic gas driven petroleum systems‖ and Whelan J et al ―Surface & subsurface manifestations of gas movement through a N-S transect of the Gulf of Mexico‖

  • •Government of NSW ―New South Wales Petroleum Potential‖

  • •NSW Department of Mineral Resources

  • •Alder et al ―Prospectivity of the Offshore Sydney Basin –A New Perspective―

  • •Frog Tech Pty Ltd

  • •Aftenbladet Multimedia

  • •The European Commission ―The Deep Sea Frontier‖

  • •Aminzadeh, F., de Groot, P., Berge, T. et al ―Determining Migration Pathway from seismically derived Gas―

  • •Geoscience Australia –Patchett.A and Langford. R.‖New South Wales –Deep Saline Aquifer Storage Potential‖

  • •Geoscience Australia Glenn. K ―Revealing the continental Shelf off New South Wales‖

  • •Aminzadeh F Connolly D and Ligtenberg H ―Hydrocarbon Phase detection and other applications of Chimney Technology‖

  • •Dietmar Schumacher, Surface geochemical exploration for oil and gas: New life for an old technology Geo-Microbial Technologies, Ochelata, Oklahoma, U.S. The Leading Edge

  • •Michael A. Abrams ―Significance of hydrocarbon seepage relative to petroleum generation and entrapment‖ Marine & Petroleum Geology

  • •AAPG Conference Geoffrey W O’Brien, Andrew Barrett, and Megan Lech .‖Integrating 3D Seismic data and multiple, independent remote sensing technologies to constrain nearsurface Hydrocarbon Migration and Seepage Rates and Leakage Mechanisms on the North-western Australian Margin‖

  • •Journal of Geophysical Research, The world’s most spectacular marine hydrocarbon seeps (Coal Oil Point, Santa Barbara Channel, California):

  • •Marine & Petroleum Geology N. Rollet, GA Logan, JM Kennard, PE O’Brien, AT Jones, M Sexton Characterisation and correlation of active hydrocarbon seepage using geophysical data sets: An example from the tropical, carbonate Yampi Shelf, Northwest Australia

  • •Daniel Lewis Orange The implications of Hydrocarbon seepage, gas migration and fluid overpressures to frontier exploration and geohazards

  • •Dietmar Schumacher AAPG Hedberg Conference Near Surface Hydrocarbon Migration; Mechanisms and seepage rates The Dynamic Nature of Hydrocarbon Microseepage: An Overview

  • •O’Brien et al ―Yampi Shelf Brows Basin –Northwest Shelf ―

  • •Cowley R & O’Brien ‖Identification and interpretation of leaking hydrocarbons using seismic data―

  • •Kroh F Reprocessing shows AVO potential for petroleum exploration Geoscience Australia

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David Breeze MEC Resources Ltd Ph +61 8 9328 8477 [email protected] Executive 14 View Street Fax +61 8 9328 8733 www.mecresources.com.au Director North Perth WA 6006 Australia

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