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Market:	AIM
Sector:	Oil and Gas Exploration and Production
EPIC:	LGO
Latest Price:	1.24 (-5.70% )
52-week High:	3.18
52-week Low:	0.48
Market Cap:	15.62M

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Leni Gas & Oil Full Leni Gas & Oil profile here

Leni Gas and Oil plc is an international oil and gas exploration, development and production company headquartered in London, trading on the FTSE AIM All-Share. The Company has assets in the US Gulf of Mexico, Spain, Trinidad, Hungary and Malta. LGO’s strategy is to deliver growth through the acquisition of proven reserves and the enhancement of producing assets in low risk countries.

Leni Gas & Oil says drilling at Eugene Island field may start next week - UPDATE

Friday, January 27, 2012 by Sergei Balashov

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Leni Gas & Oil (LON:LGO) said drilling on the Eugene Island field in the Gulf of Mexico could begin next week with the arrival of the Ocean Columbia jack-up rig expected imminently.

The rig has now been released by the previous operator and will be mobilised to the Eugene Island platform shortly if weather conditions allow.

The company and operator of the Eugene field, Marlin Energy last month approved additional drilling at the Eugene Island-184 leases, in which LGO currently holds a 7.25 percent working interest.

The drilling programme will start with the A-2ST01 well, a sidetrack of the existing A-2 well, which targets mean recoverable reserves of 0.5 million barrels of oil within the Tex X2 target level.

The slightly deeper Tex-X3 reservoir will also be tested by the well. Both reservoirs are productive in other wells throughout the field.

The partners have budgeted a total 16 days for the drilling and evaluation. The net cost to LGO of drilling, logging and evaluating the A-2 sidetrack is an initial US$280,000.

Any incremental production is expected to be realised quickly with a short payback period on the investment.

Only yesterday, LGO announced a tie-up with Range Resources (LON:RRL, ASX:RRS) to jointly develop onshore oilfields in Trinidad.

The deal will see Range taking a 50 per cent stake in LGO’s Goudron oilfield by spending US$8 million. And LGO has an option to acquire a 15 per cent stake in Range’s Beach Marcelle project by spending a maximum of US$7 million.

Shore Capital analyst Craig Howie described the tie up with Range as "very good news" for LGO in a note today.

It provides strong synergies across the two companies’ portfolios and gives LGO the necessary funding to ramp up activity levels in Trinidad, where the broker see excellent potential for reserves and production growth, he said.

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