Jericho Power Ventures Inc. reported Monday $27 million in proved developed reserves earlier than tax as of yearend 2022, up about 32 p.c towards December 2021.
Its proved reserves have risen roughly 26 p.c in worth earlier than tax to $43.7 million yr on yr, the Canadian firm mentioned in a press launch.
Proved and possible reserves in the meantime stood at $48.3 million earlier than tax as of December 31, 2022, up round 37 p.c from December 31, 2021.
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Jericho mentioned it would disclose extra about its reserves place, which it mentioned had been independently evaluated by Cawley, Gillespie & Associates Inc., in its annual earnings report later this month. It additionally has but to launch 2022 fourth-quarter outcomes.
The Vancouver city-headquartered firm had posted a 1.2 p.c lower in barrels of oil equal manufacturing within the first 9 months of 2022 in comparison with the identical interval a yr in the past, although not specifying output volumes for each reporting durations.
Jericho mentioned it had collected $8.86 million in product revenues within the third quarter of final yr, up 51 p.c yr on yr pushed by increased oil and gasoline costs.
“Our regular oil and gasoline manufacturing base gives sturdy money flows that feed each strategic initiatives of hydrocarbons at the moment and decrease carbon types of vitality tomorrow”, chief government Brian Williamson mentioned within the firm’s newest efficiency report, printed December 8.
Jericho by way of its 50 percent-owned three way partnership Eagle Street Oil LLC began manufacturing December 7 on the first nicely the enterprise drilled since 2018. The nicely, Lazarus #1 within the USA state of Oklahoma, produced 75 barrels per day on common in its first 45 days of operation, Jericho mentioned in a launch January 26.
Jericho mentioned Monday in its reserves replace it “appears ahead to constructing on this success [in Lazarus] and goals to extend the Firm’s money circulation with the beginning of its 2023 drilling program, starting on the finish of the second quarter”.
However the firm in late 2022 introduced an oil acreage sale citing “power underinvestment” within the business. The transaction concerned undeveloped acreage in Oklahoma of STACK JV, the place Jericho had a 26.5 p.c curiosity.
“Regardless of a protracted low oil value atmosphere since our preliminary entrance into the STACK JV, we are actually starting to see the cascading results of power underinvestment in our business with sustained increased oil and gasoline costs”, Williamson mentioned within the divestment announcement November 15.
Nonetheless, he added: “This has reinvigorated offset operator exercise round our STACK place, offering potential elevated worth to our remaining acreage place. With this divestiture to a top-tier operator, we improve the probability that new offset drilling exercise will develop into almost contiguous to JEV’s [Jericho Energy Ventures] complete STACK place”.
Jericho’s main operation entails oil and pure gasoline growth and manufacturing within the USA. Nevertheless it famous in a Canadian securities submitting November 23: “In 2021, the Firm started increasing its vitality portfolio to advance the worldwide low-carbon vitality transition with investments in hydrogen applied sciences and new vitality programs”.
In certainly one of its newest hydrogen initiatives, it mentioned final month its subsidiary H2U Applied sciences has entered into an settlement with Tokyo Gasoline Co. Ltd. to discover new catalysts for electrolyzers used for making “inexperienced” hydrogen.
“Tokyo Gasoline plans to make the most of hydrogen produced from electrolysis both straight or to fabricate e-methane”, the companions collectively introduced March 10.
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