Year End Review & 2024 Outlook, Management Changes and 2023 Incentive Awards

TORONTO, Dec. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sintana Energy Inc. (TSX-V: SEI, OTCQB: SEUSF) (“Sintana” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide the following 2023 Review and 2024 Outlook, an update on management and a summary of incentive awards approved at the Company’s annual general meeting.

“Building off of our Namibia entry in 2022, 2023 was another year of significant progress for Sintana,” said Robert Bose, President and Director. “The continuing emergence of Namibia’s Orange Basin and the significant progress on both our licenses and on the adjacent blocks, continue to demonstrate the size and scale of the opportunity, the unmatched quality of our portfolio and the timeliness of our entry. Multiple catalysts in the near-term position the Company and its shareholders for success in 2024,” he added.

Year End Review & Outlook

Since the basin opening Graff and Venus discoveries in February of 2022 by Shell and TotalEnergies respectively, the potential of the Orange Basin in Namibia has continued to emerge.

Officials at Namibia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy and NAMCOR, Namibia’s national oil and gas company, estimate that at least 11 billion barrels of light oil-in-place and up to 8.7 trillion cubic feet of gas-in-place have been discovered by Shell and TotalEnergies over the past 20 months.

Specific notable events in 2023 for Sintana included the following.

Petroleum Exploration License 83
(“PEL 83”)

• Initiation in November of a two well drilling campaign, including an optional drill stem test.
  

Petroleum Exploration License 87 (“PEL 87”)

• Entry in March by a subsidiary of Woodside Corp. (“Woodside”) into an agreement whereby in exchange for financing and completing a 5,500 square kilometer 3D seismic program, Woodside would earn the option to become operator with a 56% working interest. Additionally, Woodside will carry the existing working interest owners, including Sintana’s local affiliate, on an initial exploration campaign. Woodside ultimately acquired 6,600 square kilometers of 3D seismic data which was completed in May 2023. Initial fast-tracked results were delivered in Q3 2023.
  

Petroleum Exploration License 90 (“PEL 90”)

• Completion in March of the acquisition of 6,500 square kilometers 3D seismic data by an affiliate of Chevron Corp. (“Chevron”) in March.
• In November, the application by Chevron to the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism for the Republic of Namibia for an Environmental Clearance Certificate which would provide for the drilling of up to 5 exploration and 5 appraisal wells.

The Company expects substantial exploration and evaluation activities to occur throughout 2024, both on and around our offshore blocks including: