Malka Oil's total production of oil and condensate for the month of
May 2009 amounted to 45,139 barrels, compared with April when the
production was 76,890 barrels. On average the production was 1,456
barrels per day compared to 2,563 barrels per day during April.
On June 8, a court in Tomsk rejected EERB's bankruptcy petition
towards Malka's subsidiary in Tomsk, STS-Service.
During May, Malka Oil produced oil and condensate from 9 wells,
compared to 9 wells in April.
"The production in May was significantly lower than in the preceding
month due to disturbances introduced by the intervention on May 8.
This intervention is still ongoing, and in practical terms it means
that some parts of the pipeline used to deliver oil to Tomskayaneft
are blocked," says Fredrik Svinhufvud, MD of Malka Oil, and
continues: "Today's oil deliveries are made by trucking until the
conflict is resolved and settled, which of course has a very high
priority".
On Monday June 8, a court in Tomsk rejected a bankruptcy petition
from EERB towards Malka Oil's Russian subsidiary STS-Service as
Malka's entire debt of 273 MRUR to EERB already had been settled.
For further information, please contact:
Fredrik Svinhufvud, MD, tel +46 8 5000 7811, mobile +46 708 708 708
Jan-Olov Olsson, CFO, tel +46 8 5000 7812, mobile +46 768 51 86 92
For further information on Malka Oil AB, see the website
www.malkaoil.se
Malka Oil AB (publ) is an independent oil and gas production company
operating in the Tomsk region in western Siberia. Their current
position consists of oil and gas assets for licence block number 87
in the said region. The block has a surface of 1,800 square
kilometres. There are currently three oil fields at the licence
block, namely Zapadno-Luginetskoye ("ZL"), Lower Luginetskoye ("LL")
and the Schinginskoye oil field, and a large quantity of other not
yet drilled oil structures.
The ZL and LL oil fields are in production and these two oil fields
have during 2007 went through reserve classification by the Russian
State Committee of Reserves (GKZ) and during spring 2008 a Western
reserve study made by DeGolyer and MacNaughton. The GKZ registered
extractable oil and condensate reserves in the categories C1 and C2
amounted to 97 million barrels at the end of 2007. The company's own
estimate of its extractable oil and condensate reserves, C1+ C2, in
the three existing oil fields on licence block number 87 is currently
140-190 million barrels. The Western reserve study estimation as of
April 30, 2008 amounted to 43.5 million barrels 2P and 90.6 million
barrels 3P oil reserves.
Malka Oil's licence block is surrounded by a large number of
producing oil and gas fields.
Reasonable caution notice: The statement and assumptions made in the
company's information regarding Malka Oil AB's ("Malka") current
plans, prognoses, strategies, concepts and other statements that are
not historical facts are estimations or "forward looking statements"
concerning Malka's future activities. Such future estimations
comprise but are not limited to statements that include words such as
"may occur", "concerning", "plans", "expects", "estimates",
"believes", "evaluates", "prognosticates" or similar expressions.
Such expressions reflect the management of Malka's expectations and
assumptions made on the basis of information available at that time.
These statements and assumptions are subject to a large number of
risks and uncertainties. These, in their turn, comprise but are not
limited to i) changes in the financial, legal and political
environment of the countries in which Malka conducts business, ii)
changes in the available geological information concerning the
company's projects in operation, iii) Malka's capacity to
continuously guarantee sufficient financing to perform their
activities as a "going concern", iv) the success of all participants
in the group, or of the various interested companies, joint ventures
or secondary alliances, v) changes in currency exchange rates, in
particular those relating to the RUR/USD rate. Due to the background
of the many risks and uncertainties that exist for any
oil-prospecting venture and oil production company in its initial
stage, Malka's actual future development may significantly deviate
from that indicated in the company's informative statements. Malka
assumes no implicit liability to immediately update any such future
evaluations.
MAY 2009 PRODUCTION: 1,456 BARRELS PER DAY - MALKA'S DEBT TO EERB SETTLED, COURT REJECTED BANKRUPTCY PETITION
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