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Maha Energy AB Announces Filing of Fourth Quarter Report & Live Webcast

Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

                                   
Press release
Stockholm
28 February 2020
                                                                                                  

Maha Energy AB Announces Filing of Fourth Quarter Report & Live Webcast

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce its Fourth Quarter results.  The report is attached to this press release and available on the Company’s website at www.mahaenergy.ca

Fourth Quarter 2019

  • Daily oil & gas production for Q4 2019 averaged 3,165 BOEPD (Q4 2018: 2,454 BOEPD)
  • Revenue of USD 13.7 million (Q4 2018: USD 12.6 million)
  • Operating netback of USD 9.8 million or USD 35.00 per BOE (Q4 2018: USD 9.4 million or USD 43.26 per BOE)
  • EBITDA of USD 8.4 million (Q4 2018: USD 8.5 million)
  • Net result of USD 2.7 million (Q4 2018: USD 18.3 million, including USD 12.1 million of one-time other gains)
  • Basic Earnings per share of USD 0.03 (Q4 2018: USD 0.19)
  • Diluted Earnings per share of USD 0.02 (Q4 2018: USD 0.17)

      
Full Year Ended 31 December 2019

  • The Company grew its 2P reserves to 41.8 MMBOE, a 25% increase as compared to year end 2018
  • Drilled and completed the Attic well in the Tie Field and drilled a new delineation well (maha-1) in the Tartaruga block currently undergoing well testing.
  • Daily oil & gas production for the full year 2019 3,044 BOEPD (2018: 1,804 BOEPD)
  • Revenue of USD 55.6 million (2018: USD 38.1 million)
  • Operating netback of USD 41.5 million or USD 38.96 per BOE (2018: 26.9 USD million or 41.57 USD per BOE)
  • EBITDA of USD 35.9 million (2018: USD 22.4 million)
  • Net result for the period of USD 19.7 million (2018: USD 25.6 million, including USD 12.1 million of one-time other gains)
  • Basic Earnings per share of USD 0.20 (2018: USD 0.26)
  • Diluted Earnings per share of USD 0.18 (2018: USD 0.25)
  • Cash and cash equivalents balance of USD 22.4 million (2018: 20.3 million).

      
Financial Summary

(TUSD, unless otherwise noted) Q4 2019 Q3 2019 Q2 2019 Q1 2019 Q4 2018 Full Year 2019 Full Year 2018
Net Daily Production (BOEPD) 3,165 3,593 2,739 2,669 2,454 3,044 1,804
Revenue 13,672 16,068 14,098 11,751 12,595 55,589 38,132
Operating netback 9,825 12,017 10,668 9,029 9,436 41,539 26,917
EBITDA 8,354 10,663 9,188 7,663 8,486 35,868 22,404
Net result for the period 2,679 6,570 6,157 4,248 18,2671 19,654 25,645
Earnings per share – Basic (USD) 0.03 0.07 0.06 0.04 0.19 0.20 0.26
Earnings per share – Diluted (USD) 0.02 0.06 0.06 0.04 0.17 0.18 0.25
Cash and cash equivalents 22,450 20,421 20,504 19,768 20,255 22,450 20,255

Letter to shareholders

Dear Friends and Fellow Shareholders of Maha Energy AB,

The fourth quarter and the end of 2019 marked the beginning of a new era for the Company. Maha is now firmly established as a successful oil producing company with two excellent oil fields in Brazil.  First, the Tie field is rapidly turning into a cash machine with two excellent and predictable oil-producing sandstone reservoirs. Second, the Tartaruga field continues to deliver more oil from the Penedo sandstone. An example is the recently tested 107D horizontal well which flowed 990 BOEPD (939 BOPD & 303 MSCFPD) from the Penedo-1 zone on a restricted jet pump. 

The Company now have a solid foundation to build on. To that extent, Maha staff are slowly turning their attention to further growth opportunities, and in a sector that has suffered greatly since the 2014 oil price collapse, opportunities are abundant. Furthermore, 2019 saw a sharp increase in North American oil company bankruptcies (42) which was the highest since the 2015/16 downturn (114). According to Haynes and Boones Oil Patch Bankruptcy Monitor, 208 North American oil and gas companies have gone bankrupt since the 2014 oil crash. Furthermore, the International Energy Agency (IEA) identifies North America and Brazil as the top two oil and gas growth areas in the world (IEA, “Oil 2019”). It is therefore clear that Maha is not only optimally positioned geographically, but with a very strong balance sheet and ready access to capital, the Company is positioned for growth.

Staying true to color, the Company’s tried and tested strategy of identifying underperforming hydrocarbon assets and then adding state of the art technology to increase value will be continued.

Year on year 2P Reserves up by 25% – now at 39.750 million barrels of oil
In September 2019, the Company announced a significant oil reserve increase in the Tie Field as a result of the recently drilled ‘Attic’ Well. Also, important, and something that perhaps has gone unnoticed, is that the recent high-pressure sand stimulation work performed on the 7TTG well at Tartaruga increased the Proven reserves there by some 30%. The Company’s Proven reserves increased by 18%, year on year. And finally, the Company’s (proven) reserve replacement ratio is 147% for 2019. These numbers are excellent considering they all stem from technology implementation work done on existing and producing oil fields. 

Last hurdle cleared on offtake capacity at Tie field.
After nearly a year of expansion commissioning work and licensing, our biggest customer for the Tie field oil received their final clearance to start refining more oil. Together with the recently added Petrobras operated Comboata receiving station, the Company now have offtake agreements in place to accommodate 4,850 BOPD from the Tie field. This is a significant increase from July 2017 when the Tie Field was purchased and offtake was limited to 1,100 BOPD.

Tartaruga 107D Test Results
The long awaited well test on the Tartaruga 107D horizontal was finally concluded and was better than expected.  Considering that the 107D well was only intermittently ‘coughing’ oil and gas when Maha assumed the field in 2017, it was very encouraging that the well started to flow freely again. This is the whole purpose of horizontal drilling, particularly in ‘tight’ formations like the Penedo. Horizontal drilling adds valuable producible surface area in the well, and it provides for access to previously untapped parts of the reservoir. It was primarily the access to new parts of the reservoir that proved so fortuitous. In tight reservoirs, most of the inflow pressure drop occurs very close to the wellbore, so by drilling a short distance away from the original wellbore it allows for higher reservoir pressure. It is this high reservoir pressure that allows the oil to flow freely to the surface. 

Because the 107D horizontal initially free flowed a mixture of oil, gas and water, it took some time to clean the well up. Over time, the water and oil emulsion reduced enough so that the oil could be treated in the Tartaruga facilities.  Once the well had cleaned up enough, the well could then be placed on pump in order to evaluate the full productivity of the well. And as reported, productivity was more than what the Tartaruga facilities could currently handle. Simply put, the oil could not be trucked out fast enough. 

 

Work is underway to increase the handling capacity of the Tartaruga facilities so that the oil from the 107D, 7TTG and predictably Maha-1 (to be tested) wells can be produced without restrictions. It is very encouraging that the Penedo sandstone contains so many zones with so much potential and at the moment the field is only producing from the Penedo-1 zone.   No doubt, the added production from Tartaruga is welcomed, but currently, and although it is still early in the new year, the Company is producing in accordance with its’ production plan for 2020.

I continue to be grateful to all Maha employees for their hard work and dedication that has made all this possible.

“Jonas Lindvall” Managing Director

Q4 Webcast

There will be a live webcast today, 28 February at 16:00 CET (Stockholm time) to review and discuss the Fourth Quarter results and provide an operational update. The webcast will be broadcast live on Nyhetsbyrån Direkts Youtube Channel and hosted by Laikas’ Mr. Mats Jonsson and will feature Maha’s CEO Jonas Lindvall and CFO Andres Modarelli. For further details please consult the Company’s website: www.mahaenergy.ca

Adviser

Certified Advisor: FNCA Sweden AB, info@fnca.se, Telephone: +46-8-528 00 399.

For more information, please contact:          


Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +1 403 454 7560        
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Andres Modarelli (CFO)
Tel: +1-403-454-7560
Email: andres@mahaenergy.ca

or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11          
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Miscellaneous      

This information is published in accordance with the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication through the agency of the contact persons set out above on 28 February 2020, at 6:00 am CET.

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser. The Company’s auditors are Deloitte. The Company’s predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 26 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha’s strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil and LAK Ranch, in Wyoming, U.S. For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

Important Information

Publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, of this press release could in some jurisdictions be subject to restrictions according to law and recipients of this press release, or part of it, are required to inform themselves of, and comply with, such legal restrictions. This press release is not for release, publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in or into Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland or the United States, or in any other jurisdiction where distribution of this press release could be illegal or subject to legal restrictions. Copies of this press release are not being made and may not be distributed or sent, in whole, or part, directly or indirectly, in violation of such restrictions. Failure to comply with such restrictions may constitute a criminal act under the United States Securities Act of 1933 (as amended) ("Securities Act") or applicable laws in other jurisdictions.


1 Q4 2018 Net result includes USD 11.3 million of recognized deferred tax recovery and USD 0.8 million of other gains.

 

 

Maha Energy AB (publ) announce positive 107D well test results

­­­Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvagen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

Press release
Stockholm
February 9, 2020

Maha Energy announce positive 107D well test results

107D (Tartaruga)
The well test on 107D is now complete and Maha is pleased to report the following (gross volume) results:

On Free Flow
Oil Rate: 626 BOPD
Gas Rate: 227 MSCFPD
Water/Emulsion: 177 BPD

On Pump (reduced power)*
Oil Rate: 939 BOPD
Gas Rate: 343 MSCFPD
Water/Emulsion: 304 BPD

During the 20-day test period, which was split between free flowing and pumping operations, a steady trend of increasing oil and gas volumes were recorded. During the same period, the water and oil emulsion percentage was steadily reducing.

Jonas Lindvall, CEO of Maha commented: “The results from the 107D well test is above our expectations. Prior to the horizontal sidetrack, the 107D well was unable to flow naturally. The fact that it free flows to surface at the combined rate of 803 BFPD is very encouraging. The race is now on to increase the oil and gas handling capacity of the Tartaruga processing facility.”

*During jet pumping operations, the jet pump was restricted because the surface handling facilities reached capacity with this better than expected result. 

Maha Energy holds a 75% working interest in the SES-107 Tartaruga oil and gas concession onshore Brazil and is the Operator. Petrobras holds the remaining 25%.

Abbreviations:
BOPD: Barrels of Oil Per Day
MSCFPD: Thousand Standard Cubic Feet Per Day
BFPD: Barrels of Fluid Per Day

For more information, please contact:        

Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +1 403 454 7560        
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11      
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser and can be contacted at info@fnca.se or +46-8-528 00 399. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Sweden stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 26 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil and LAK Ranch, in Wyoming, U.S. For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) January Production Volumes

­­­Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

Press release
Stockholm
February 3, 2020

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) Announce January Production Volumes

Production Volumes

The Company's aggregate sales production for the month of January totaled 94,6651 barrels of oil and 69.467 million scf of gas for a combined average production of approximately 3,427 BOE/day2, before royalties and taxes.

1   Subject to minor standard industry adjustments at the time of custody transfer.
2   Barrels of oil equivalent ("BOE") conversion ratio of 6,000 scf: 1 bbl is used.

For more information, please contact:        

Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +1 403 454 7560        
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11      
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser and can be contacted at info@fnca.se or +46-8-528 00 399. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Sweden stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 30 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil and LAK Ranch, in Wyoming, U.S. For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

 

Maha Energy AB (publ) Announce Approval of Additional 800 BOPD Offtake Volume for Tie Field Oil Production

­­­Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

Press release
Stockholm
January 30, 2020

Maha Energy AB (publ) Announce Approval of Additional 800 BOPD Offtake Volume for Tie Field Oil Production

Tie Field Oil Refinery Offtake Arrangement

Maha is pleased to announce the final approval by Brazilian Authorities for an increase in refined oil products volume for one of the company’s key customers. As previously communicated, Maha was waiting for the local refinery to receive a final approval by Brazilian Authorities to expand its’ refining volumes. 

The approval means that Maha can increase Tie Field oil deliveries to that specific refinery by an additional 800 BOPD. Overall delivery availability to the refinery is now 3 000 BOPD to Maha.

“We are very pleased that this approval is finally secured. Maha now have crude oil offtake agreements in place at the Tie Field for a total of 4 850 BOPD. When we assumed the field in July, 2017, offtake was limited to 1 100 BOPD.” Jonas Lindvall, CEO of Maha Energy AB said.

For more information, please contact:        

Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +1 403 454 7560        
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11      
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser and can be contacted at info@fnca.se or +46-8-528 00 399. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Sweden stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 26 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil and LAK Ranch, in Wyoming, U.S. For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

 

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) announces December 31, 2019 Reserves Report with 25% increase in 2P reserves

Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-11451 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

Press Release
Stockholm
January 30, 2020

Maha Energy AB announces December 31, 2019 Reserves Report with 25% increase in 2P reserves

Chapman Petroleum Engineering Ltd. (“Chapman”) has completed their annual reserve determination for the Company. The 2P oil reserves are up by approximately 25% compared to year end 2018, primarily due to an increase in the Tie Field reserves (as communicated in press release dated 25 September, 2019).

Maha Reserves1 as at 31 December, 2019

2019 Maha Energy AB Net Oil Reserves before income tax
(million barrels (m bbls))
  LAK Tie Tartaruga2   Total
1P 0.111 4.896 4.966   9.973
2P 8.815 17.735 13.200   39.750
3P 14.239 21.212 32.277   67.728

2019 Maha Energy AB Net Conventional (Sales)3 Natural Gas Reserves before income tax  
    Tie Field  
    Volume  
    (billion SCF)  
  1P 3.280  
  2P 12.498  
  3P 14.994  

1 Volumes are Net to Maha Energy AB and are expressed before royalties and taxes.
2 The Tartaruga Concession Agreement expires in 2025 but provides mechanisms for extension based on the continued productivity of the field.  Management is confident that such an extension will be approved and the reserves assume that the extension will be granted. The following reserve volumes are attributable to the extension period: 1P:- 2.44 m bbls, 2P:- 8.21 m bbls and 3P:- 20.11 m bbls.
3 Chapman Petroleum Engineering Ltd. uses the following oil price forecast for Brent Spot in $USD/STB:

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
$71.64 $64.11 $68.93 $71.19 $74.58 $76.07 $77.59 $79.14

The average gas price for the gas reserves at Tie Field over the next five years is forecasted by Chapman to be $1.39 USD/MSCF.

The main changes to this years’ reserve volumes are:

  • 1.5 million barrels increase in P90 (proven) reserves in Brazil
  • 6.7 million barrels increase in P50 (probable) reserves at Tie

The increase of the P50 (probable) reserves at the Tie Field are due to seismic remapping of the Tie structure after drilling the Attic Well, where the structure top was encountered significantly deeper than what was earlier prognosticated.  In effect, the structure is now determined to be less steep and aerially larger. At Tartaruga, P90 (proven) reserve volumes were slightly increased (1.158 million bbls) because of results of the 7TTG workover and the resulting production increase from the Penedo1 sandstone.

The reserves review and issuance of this reserve report for the Company was made by the independent petroleum engineering consultants Chapman Petroleum Engineering Ltd., Calgary, Canada. The report has been calculated in accordance with the standards set out in the Canadian Oil and Gas Evaluation Handbook (COGEH), compliant with the National Instrument NI51-101 standards and the professional practice standard under the Permit to Practice.

Maha Energy AB, through its subsidiaries owns and operates a legal and beneficial 75% working interest in the SES-107D Block (Tartaruga) onshore Sergipe State Brazil, a 99% working interest in the LAK Ranch heavy oil field in Wyoming USA, and a 100% working interest in the Tie Field onshore Bahia State Brazil.

About reserves

Reserves are estimated remaining quantities of oil and natural gas and related substances anticipated to be recoverable from known accumulations, as of a given date, based on:

  • analysis of drilling, geological, geophysical, and engineering data,
  • the use of established technology, and
  • specified economic conditions, which are generally accepted as being reasonable, and shall be disclosed

Reserves are classified according to the degree of certainty associated with the estimates.
Proved reserves (P90) are those reserves that can be estimated with a high degree of certainty to be recoverable. It is likely that the actual remaining quantities recovered will exceed the estimated proved reserves (P).

Probable reserves (P50) are those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than proved reserves. It is equally likely that the actual remaining quantities recovered will be greater or less than the sum of the estimated proved + probable reserves (2P).

Possible reserves (P10) are those additional reserves that are less certain to be recovered than probable reserves. It is unlikely that the actual remaining quantities recovered will exceed the sum of the estimated proved + probable + possible reserves (3P).

For more information, please contact:        

Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +1 403 454 7560        
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11      
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Miscellaneous   

This information is published in accordance with the EU Market Abuse Regulation and/or the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication through the agency of the contact persons set out above on January 30, 2020, at 5:00 am CET.

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser and can be contacted at info@fnca.se or +46-8-528 00 399. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 26 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil and LAK Ranch, in Wyoming, U.S. For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

Maha Energy AB (publ) Announces Tartaruga Operational Update.

Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

Press Release
Stockholm
January 29, 2020

Maha Energy AB (publ) Announces Tartaruga Operational Update.

107D (Tartaruga)

The remedial repair operations on the 107D horizontal are now complete. The split 7” casing was successfully removed and replaced with new casing. The well is now undergoing clean up flow and well testing. The well is flowing without the assistance of artificial lift. Once well testing and clean out operations are complete, the Company will disclose the results.

The 107D completion consists of a 2-7/8” downhole Jet Pump assembly, and future plans include placing the well on artificial lift. The fact that the 107D free flows to surface is very encouraging because; (a) prior to the horizontal sidetrack the 107D well was dead and required artificial lift to produce oil, and (b) by stepping away from the original wellbore and drilling horizontally, Maha has demonstrated the applicability of horizontal drilling as a very beneficial extraction technology for the Penedo sandstone reservoirs. This is the first horizontal wellbore to have been drilled in the Penedo sandstone reservoir.

The Braserv 147 workover rig was repositioned over the Maha-1 well on January 23 and after rig up and commissioning operations has now started operations to commence well stimulation and well testing. The current operation on Maha-1 is pulling out of the hole with tubing and preparing to perforate the first test interval. During the rig move, both the 107D and 7TTG wells were temporarily shut in for safety reasons. The 7TTG well is now back on production. 

Maha-1 is primarily an appraisal well to provide much needed well information for the Tartaruga Field Development Plan. Well testing on Maha-1 is expected to take between 60 – 90 days, and will target up to five different intervals in the Penedo sandstone.  Results of the first testing interval(s) will dictate the final number of testing intervals. Results of the Maha-1 well test, in line with industry practice, will be communicated at the end of the well testing operations.

Maha Energy holds a 75% working interest in the SES-107 Tartaruga oil and gas concession onshore Brazil. Petrobras holds the remaining 25% and is non-operator.

For more information, please contact:        

Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +1 403 454 7560        
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Victoria Berg (Investor Relations)
Tel: +46 8 611 05 11      
Email: victoria@mahaenergy.ca

Miscellaneous   

The information was submitted for publication through the agency of the contact persons set out above on January 29, 2020, at 4:00 p.m. (CET)

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser and can be contacted at info@fnca.se or +46-8-528 00 399. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 26 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil and LAK Ranch, in Wyoming, U.S. For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) Announce Retirement of Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Officer Ron Panchuk

­­­Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

Press Release
Stockholm
January 20, 2020

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) Announce Retirement of Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Officer Ron Panchuk

Effective January 20th 2020, Ron Panchuk, Executive Vice President and one of the founders of Maha Energy, announced his retirement from full time employment with the Maha Group.  In order to make the transition as smooth as possible for the Group, Ron will be providing part time legal consulting services to the Maha Group throughout 2020 as needed.

Jonas Lindvall, CEO of Maha Energy commented: “Ron’s energy and experience have been vital to Maha’s success to date and we wish him the best in his retirement.”

Adviser

Certified Advisor: FNCA Sweden AB, info@fnca.se, Telephone: +46-8-528 00 399.

For more information, please contact:        

Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +1 403 454 7560        
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

Miscellaneous   

The information was submitted for publication through the agency of the contact persons set out above on January 20, 2020, at 01:00 a.m. (CET)

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 26 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil and LAK Ranch, in Wyoming, U.S. For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

Important Information

Publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, of this press release could in some jurisdictions be subject to restrictions according to law and recipients of this press release, or part of it, are required to inform themselves of, and comply with, such legal restrictions. This press release is not for release, publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in or into Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland or the United States, or in any other jurisdiction where distribution of this press release could be illegal or subject to legal restrictions. Copies of this press release are not being made and may not be distributed or sent, in whole, or part, directly or indirectly, in violation of such restrictions. Failure to comply with such restrictions may constitute a criminal act under the United States Securities Act of 1933 (as amended) (“Securities Act”) or applicable laws in other jurisdictions.

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) announce its 2020 Capital Plan and Production Guidance

Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

Press Release
Stockholm
January 10, 2020

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) announce its 2020 Capital Plan and Production Guidance

Maha Energy AB (publ) ("Maha" or the "Company") is pleased to provide details of its 2020 Capital Plan and Production Guidance.

2020 Capital Plan Summary- Total Budget USD 20.71 Million

Field Capital Program Quarter 2020 Description/Purpose
Tie New Well
TS-1
Q2 – Q3 Maintain Tie field long term production plateau
Tie New Well
TS-2
Q2 – Q3 Maintain Tie field long term production plateau
(possible water injection well)
Tie GTE-4 During 2020 Conversion to dual artificial lift system
Tartaruga Facilities Upgrade Q1 – Q2 Increasing processing capacity for new production
Tartaruga Delineation Well Maha-2 (“MH-2”)1 Q4 Well is contingent on results of Maha-1 well tests and partner approval.
Purpose of well is to increase production at the Tartaruga field and fine tune/test completion technologies.
LAK None N/A N/A

1 The well in Tartaruga is contingent on positive results of the Maha-1 (“MH-1”) well tests and Partner approval.

Tie Field – Bahia, Brazil

Tie- 2020 Capital Plan
       
      Tie South 1 and Tie South 2 Wells
      The previously announced Tie development wells (see Press Release dated 8 March 2019) will now be drilled during 2020.  These wells were originally planned to be drilled at the end of 2019, but due to delays in environmental permitting, these two wells will now be drilled as soon as the environmental permits are approved.  One well is planned as a water injector to further boost production in the field, and the second well is planned as a dual zone oil producer.
             
GTE-4
      The GTE-4 well is currently a dual completed free flowing well.  The Sergi reservoir has started to show signs of reduced flow.  Since 2017, the Company has been aware of the eventual decline in reservoir pressure in this well, and has therefore taken steps to implement an artificial lift system, similar to the GTE-3 well.  The Jet Pump has already been installed at surface, and when timing and scheduling permits, GTE-4 will be converted to a dually completed Jet Pump well using a work over rig.  It is not anticipated production at the field will be affected significantly during this operation.

Tartaruga Field – Sergipe, Brazil

Tartaruga- 2020 Capital Plan

      Delineation Well (MH-2)
      The Company plans to drill a new well from the Tartaruga site during 2020 (“MH-2”).  The objectives of the MH -2 well are to further build on the results of the recently drilled MH-1 well, maintain production at Tartaruga Field and evaluate potential completion technologies for these and future wells.  
       
      It is not anticipated that the Tartaruga Facility will be shut in during the drilling of the MH-2 well. 

      Facility Upgrade
      Work will continue during 2020 to upgrade the production facilities at Tartaruga to handle up to 2500 BOPD and 2,500 MSCFPD of gas.  The previously announced Gas-to-Wire project is now up and running at Tartaruga with further expansion planned as and when more gas production is brought on.

LAK Ranch –Wyoming USA

LAK- 2020 Capital Plan

Production Optimization
2020 will continue to be a year of production optimization and evaluation. So far, no investment decision has been made for LAK in 2020.  Capital will only be spent if: a) the results of the hot water flood show positive netback numbers for the field, b) further capital investments are ranked above other opportunities that the Company might have during 2020, and c) upon Board of Directors’ review and approval.

Production

The Company expects to complete most, if not all, of the Capital Plan prior to year-end 2020.  The exact timing of the operations is dependent upon a number of factors including delivery of long lead items, rig availability, permitting and logistics which in turn might affect Company’s total annual production

As such, this 2020 production guidance, net to the Company (but before government or freehold royalties) is expressed in the range of 5,000 – 5,500 BOEPD, of which 12% is estimated to be gas.

Please note that in order to align the Company’s production guidance with the Company’s financial reporting, it has been decided to provide this and future production guidance in Barrels of Oil Equivalents Per Day (BOEPD)2

As the exact timing of the above operations and expected production/offtakes becomes clearer through 2020 the Company will provide updated information by Press Release.

The Company estimates its Operating costs for 2020 (including oil transportation costs), to range between $5.95 and $5.15 per BOE applying the production guidance range provided above.

Funding of 2020 Capital Plan

2020 Capital Plan Budget
The 2020 Capital Plan has a total budget of USD 20.73 million for the above incremental projects and is expected to be funded fully through operating cash flow.

2 Normal units for expressing gas production is m3/day or ft3/day.  An average industry conversion factor to barrels does not use a simple volumetric conversion factor from m3 (or ft3) to barrels.  Instead the energy produced by burning 1 barrel of oil is equated to the same volume of gas required to produce the same amount of energy.  This is of course dependent on the type of gas being burned, but an industry average is that 6,000 standard cubic feet (scf) of gas generate the same amount of energy as 1 barrel of oil.  As such in this and future production guidance 6,000 scf of gas will be equal to 1 barrel of oil equivalent.
3 Includes 100% of the cost of drilling Maha-2 at Tartaruga.

Adviser

Certified Advisor: FNCA Sweden AB, info@fnca.se, Telephone: +46-8-528 00 399.

For more information, please contact:        

Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +1 403 454 7560        
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Ron Panchuk (EVP)
Tel: +1 403 454 7560        
Email: ron@mahaenergy.ca

Miscellaneous   

The information was submitted for publication through the agency of the contact persons set out above on January 10, 2020, at 3:00 a.m. (CET)

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 28 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil and LAK Ranch, in Wyoming, U.S. For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

 

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) Announce December Production Volumes and Operational Update on Testing of 107D Well

­­­Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

Press release
Stockholm
January 5, 2020

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) Announce December Production Volumes and Operational Update on Testing of 107D Well

Production Volumes

The Company's aggregate sales production for the month of December totaled 79,1031 barrels of oil and 60.455 million scf of gas for a combined average production of approximately 2,877 BOE/day2, before royalties and taxes.

A fire at one of the Company’s end users of gas temporarily restricted production at the Tie Field for 7 days during the month.  All GTW generators were brought on line during the month however, electrical grid stability affected up time on about half of the generator units.  The last week of December saw an average 75.6% uptime on the GTW gas generators at the Tie Field. 

Operational Update Tartaruga
Braserv “Rig 149” was mobilized to the Tartaruga Field after a lengthy delay unrelated to the Company, and is currently rigging up over the 107D well.  Once rigged up, remedial casing repair work will commence on 107D before dedicated testing will commence on the 107D horizontal wellbore.  Testing of the 500m horizontal sidetrack, which was drilled and completed during the first quarter last year, was temporarily suspended in the second quarter last year due to emulsion issues at the oil handling plant at Tartaruga.  A dedicated test spread has been mobilized to handle all effluents from the 107D test in order to not interrupt production from the 7TTG well.

1   Subject to minor standard industry adjustments at the time of custody transfer.
2   Barrels of oil equivalent ("BOE") conversion ratio of 6,000 scf: 1 bbl is used.

Adviser

Certified Advisor: FNCA Sweden AB, info@fnca.se, Telephone: +46-8-528 00 399.

For more information, please contact:        

Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +1 403 454 7560        
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Ron Panchuk (EVP)
Tel: +1 403 454 7560        
Email: ron@mahaenergy.ca

Miscellaneous   

The information was submitted for publication through the agency of the contact persons set out above on January 5, 2020, at 05:00 a.m. (CET)

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 26 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil and LAK Ranch, in Wyoming, U.S. For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

Important Information

Publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, of this press release could in some jurisdictions be subject to restrictions according to law and recipients of this press release, or part of it, are required to inform themselves of, and comply with, such legal restrictions. This press release is not for release, publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in or into Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland or the United States, or in any other jurisdiction where distribution of this press release could be illegal or subject to legal restrictions. Copies of this press release are not being made and may not be distributed or sent, in whole, or part, directly or indirectly, in violation of such restrictions. Failure to comply with such restrictions may constitute a criminal act under the United States Securities Act of 1933 (as amended) (“Securities Act”) or applicable laws in other jurisdictions.

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) November Production Volumes

­­­Maha Energy AB (publ)
Strandvägen 5A
SE-114 51 Stockholm
www.mahaenergy.ca

Press release
Stockholm
December 3, 2019

Maha Energy AB (publ) (“Maha” or the “Company”) November Production Volumes

Production Volumes

The Company's aggregate sales production for the month of November totaled 78,6901 barrels of oil and 67.628 million scf of gas for a combined average production of approximately 2,999 BOE/day2, before royalties and taxes.

Production at the Tie Field was restricted during the month due to continued commissioning work on the Gas to Wire (GTW) equipment.  Further, production was affected at the Tie Field during the month due to a three day Petrobras strike (restricting deliveries to the Petrobras delivery stations) along with a 24 hour shut down of the Tie Processing Plant due to an electrical fault in the Production Logic Control (PLC) System, which has subsequently been repaired.

1   Subject to minor standard industry adjustments at the time of custody transfer.
2   Barrels of oil equivalent ("BOE") conversion ratio of 6,000 scf: 1 bbl is used.

Adviser

Certified Advisor: FNCA Sweden AB, info@fnca.se, Telephone: +46-8-528 00 399.

For more information, please contact:        

Jonas Lindvall (CEO)
Tel: +1 403 454 7560        
Email: jonas@mahaenergy.ca

or

Ron Panchuk (EVP)
Tel: +1 403 454 7560        
Email: ron@mahaenergy.ca

Miscellaneous   

The information was submitted for publication through the agency of the contact persons set out above on December 3, 2019, at 11:00 p.m. (CET)

Maha in Brief

Maha Energy AB is a Swedish public limited liability company. FNCA Sweden AB has been engaged as Certified Adviser. The Company's auditors are Deloitte. The Company's predecessor Maha Energy Inc. was founded in 2013 in Calgary, Canada, by Jonas Lindvall and Ron Panchuk. In May 2016, the new group was formed with Maha Energy AB as parent company for purposes completing an initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market stock exchange. Jonas Lindvall, CEO and Managing Director, has 26 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, starting his career with Lundin Oil during the early days of E&P growth.  After 6 years at Shell and Talisman, Jonas joined, and helped secure the success of, Tethys Oil AB. Maha's strategy is to target and develop underperforming hydrocarbon assets on global basis. The Company operates three oil fields, Tartaruga and Tie in Brazil and LAK Ranch, in Wyoming, U.S. For more information, please visit our website www.mahaenergy.ca.

Important Information

Publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, of this press release could in some jurisdictions be subject to restrictions according to law and recipients of this press release, or part of it, are required to inform themselves of, and comply with, such legal restrictions. This press release is not for release, publication or distribution, directly or indirectly, in or into Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland or the United States, or in any other jurisdiction where distribution of this press release could be illegal or subject to legal restrictions. Copies of this press release are not being made and may not be distributed or sent, in whole, or part, directly or indirectly, in violation of such restrictions. Failure to comply with such restrictions may constitute a criminal act under the United States Securities Act of 1933 (as amended) (“Securities Act”) or applicable laws in other jurisdictions.