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IGAS appoints John Blaymires as chief operating officer

Published: 17:24 12 Apr 2010 AEST

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IGas Energy (AIM: IGAS) has appointed John Blaymires as chief operating officer (COO). Blaymires has 27 years of experience in the international oil and gas industry, gained with both Shell International and Hess Corporation.

The newly appointed COO will be responsible for all of IGas' operated and non-operated assets.

"It gives me great pleasure to welcome John as COO. He brings with him a wealth of industry experience, both in unconventional and conventional gas”, IGas CEO Andrew Austin commented. “His field development expertise will strengthen the IGas team as we move towards first full site production in 2011".

Before joining IGas, Blaymires was Director of Technology Development for Hess where he helped develop a global engineering and geoscience technology group responsible for providing support across the E&P business, from deepwater to unconventional resources. Blaymires has held a variety of senior technical roles with particular emphasis on field development activity in the North Sea, North Africa and the Middle East.

IGas is a UK-based coal bed methane (CBM) developer. CBM gas is found in seams of coal and is extracted by drilling into the seam. In the UK, the CBM industry is in its infancy. CBM as a source of gas has been developed widely throughout parts of the United States, Canada and Australia.

Currently, IGas’ current production site is located in Cheshire, the Doe Green site has three lateral wells and one vertical well. One of the lateral wells has been producing CBM for over a year. The produced gas is used to generate electricity, which is subsequently sold into the UK grid.

The company’s first full-scale commercial production site is planned at Ellesmere Port, located on the group’s PEDL 184 and PEDL 190 licenses between the tidal estuaries of the river Dee and the river Mersey.

According to IGas, a typical full production site would be expected to produce between 4 and 10 million standard cubic feet of gas per day. The emerging CBM producer said it currently has mid-case estimated Gas Initially in Place (GIIP) of 3,558 billion cubic feet across its acreage.

In January IGas secured planning permission for the Ellesmere Port CBM project and the company stated that full-scale commercial production is targeted in 2011.

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