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METGASCO LTD Capital/Financing Update 2021

Dec 5, 2021

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Capital/Financing Update

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ASX Release 6 December 2021

Vintage signs HoA for Vali gas sales of up to 16 PJ (8 PJ net)

  • ATP 2021 Joint Venture enters into a Heads of Agreement with AGL Wholesale Gas Limited

  • HoA targets parties executing a Gas Sales Agreement by year end

  • Subject to agreeing a GSA and satisfaction of conditions precedent, gas supply to AGL to commence mid 2022 until end 2026, estimated at between 9 PJ and 16 PJ (gross)

  • Pricing at a mix of fixed and variable market rates

  • Includes a pre-payment by AGL of $15 million to the Joint Venture for funding the Vali Field work to first gas

  • Vali Field independently evaluated reserves: Gross 1P of 47.5 PJ (23.7 PJ net), 2P of 101.0 PJ (50.5 PJ net) and 3P of 209.8 PJ (104.9 PJ net)

ATP 2021 (Vintage 50% and operatorship, Metgasco Ltd 25% and Bridgeport (Cooper Basin) Pty Ltd 25%)

Vintage Energy Ltd (ASX: VEN, “Vintage”) is pleased to announce a conditional Heads of Agreement (“HoA”) between the ATP 2021 Joint Venture parties (“JV”) and AGL Wholesale Gas Limited (“AGL”) for the sale of all gas produced from the Vali Field from field start-up (mid-CY2022) through to the end of CY2026. This is anticipated to be a minimum of 9 PJ and up to 16 PJ of gross sales gas over the contract term, to be sold on a mix of firm and variable pricing at market rates.

The terms set out in the HoA will form the basis of a fully termed Gas Sales Agreement (“GSA”) which will include AGL providing an upfront payment of $15 million to the JV in three tranches as the project moves to first gas, subject to execution of the GSA and the satisfaction of its conditions precedent. The JV funds will be used specifically for the Vali Field to fund the work program, including the completion of all three Vali wells and the tie-in of the Vali Field to the nearby Moomba pipeline network.

Vintage Managing Director, Neil Gibbins said, “Once more I am delighted with how things are progressing as we fast approach becoming a domestic east coast gas producer.

“The Heads of Agreement for the proposed sales of up to 16 PJ of gas to AGL will deliver significant cash flow to the Joint Venture over the term of the contract and also provide the Joint Venture with an upfront payment for funding capital works required to achieve first gas. These are great outcomes for Vintage and all the participants in the agreement.

“I see this agreement as validation that the Vali gas field will be commercialised. Along with our recently announced tripling of reserves for the Vali Field, which took the gross 2P reserves to 101.0 PJ (50.5 PJ net to Vintage, or 50,500,000 GJ), we are now close to supplying meaningful amounts of gas into the Australian east coast market. With strengthening gas prices in the domestic and international markets, it should be very clear to all that the Vali Field is a sizeable and valuable asset for Vintage and its shareholders.

Vintage Energy Ltd (ACN 609 200 580) 58 King William Rd, Goodwood, SA 5034

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“We are excited to have AGL as a buyer of Vali Field gas and look forward to providing them with a consistent supply of gas for the initial supply term of four to five years.”

A competitive process was undertaken for the sale of gas from the Vali Field. The JV has executed the HoA with AGL, which contains the key commercial terms to a fully termed GSA. This HoA provides the greatest amount of flexibility for the JV in terms of gas delivery at the strongest price and represents approximately 9% to 16% of the 2P reserves from the Vali Field as announced by Vintage previously.

The HoA includes a number of conditions precedent to a definitive GSA including a condition that a raw gas processing agreement with the Moomba infrastructure owners, for the processing of Vali gas to sales gas standards, is entered into. Discussions with the Moomba infrastructure owners regarding a processing agreement are progressing. The HoA provides for an exclusivity period during which time the formal documentation for a GSA is expected to be negotiated and executed.

BurnVoir Corporate Finance continues as financial advisor to Vintage and was integral in securing the HoA with AGL. Vintage would like to thank BurnVoir for its work on this transaction, the funds from which will be an important component in funding the Vali Project.

As previously announced on 1 November 2021, ERC Equipoise Pte Ltd (“ERCE”) completed an independent evaluation of the Vali Field, which included results from the Vali-2 and Vali-3 wells. As a result of this evaluation, ERCE revised its 1P, 2P and 3P reserves estimates for the Vali Field to include the Toolachee Formation, as well as revising upward the previously booked reserves from the Patchawarra Formation. The following tables detail the combined revised reserves estimates.

Gross ATP 2021 Vali Gas Field Reserves Gross ATP 2021 Vali Gas Field Reserves
1P 2P 3P
Sales Gas(Bscf) 43.3 92.0 191.2
Sales Gas(PJ) 47.5 101.0 209.8
Net Entitlement ATP 2021 Vali Gas Field Reserves
1P 2P 3P
Sales Gas(Bscf) 21.6 46.0 95.6
Sales Gas(PJ) 23.7 50.5 104.9

Notes

  1. Reserves estimates reported here are ERCE estimates, effective 31 October 2021.

  2. Vintage is not aware of any new data or information that materially affects the Reserves above and considers that all material assumptions and technical parameters continue to apply and have not materially changed.

  3. Reserves estimates have been made and classified in accordance with the Society of Petroleum Engineers (“SPE”) Petroleum Resources Management System (“PRMS”) 2018.

  4. Company Net Entitlement Reserves are based on the Vintage working interest share of 50% of the on block gross ATP 2021 Reserves as there are no royalties payable.

  5. Sales Gas volumes are net of fuel and flare volumes.

  6. All quantities are subject to rounding to one decimal place for clarity purposes.

  7. A conversion factor of 1.0973 is applied to convert from billion standard cubic feet (Bscf) to petajoules (PJ).

The increase in the independently evaluated 2P gas reserves, when compared with the original reserves booking (which only accounted for the Patchawarra Formation), is 201%.

This release has been authorised on behalf of the Vintage Energy Limited Board by Mr Neil Gibbins, Managing Director.

Vintage Energy Ltd (ACN 609 200 580) 58 King William Rd, Goodwood, SA 5034

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Resource Evaluator

ERCE is an independent consultancy specialising in petroleum reservoir evaluation. Except for the provision of professional services on a fee basis, ERCE has no commercial arrangement with any other person or company involved in the interests that are the subject of this reserves evaluation.

The work has been supervised by Mr Adam Becis, Principal Reservoir Engineer of ERCE’s Asia Pacific office who has over 14 years of experience. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and also a member of the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers.

About BurnVoir Corporate Finance

BurnVoir Corporate Finance is a leading independent Australian investment and advisory firm with extensive experience and a strong track record in financial services across the energy, resources and infrastructure sectors.

For more information contact:

Neil Gibbins Managing Director +61 8 7477 7680 [email protected]

Glossary

Glossary
Bscf Billion standard cubic feet
GJ Gigajoule. A joule is a measure of heating value. 1 GJ is equal to 1 x 109joules
PJ Petajoule. A joule is a measure of heating value. 1 PJ is equal to 1 x 1015joules
1 PJ is equal to 1,000,000 GJ
Reserves Those quantities of petroleum anticipated to be commercially recoverable by
application of development projects to known accumulations from a given
date forward under defined conditions. The categories in decreasing certainty
are Proved, Probable and Possible
1P, Proved Proved reserves (deterministic or probabilistic)
2P, Proved and Probable Proved plus Probable reserves (deterministic or probabilistic)
3P, Proved, Probable and Proved plus Probable plus Possible reserves (deterministic or probabilistic)
Possible

Vintage Energy Ltd (ACN 609 200 580) 58 King William Rd, Goodwood, SA 5034

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