28 May 2015

Acreage Award Documents Submitted

Award Documents Submitted

88 Energy is pleased to announce that its Joint Venture Partner, Burgundy Xploration LLC, has received, signed and returned to the State of Alaska, the award documentation for 63 tracts of land totalling approximately 89,542 acres. Burgundy bid on these tracts on behalf of the Joint Venture and was announced high bidder in November 2014. Once these documents have been processed and the leases issued, Burgundy will assign to Accumulate Energy Alaska, Inc (100% owned subsidiary of 88 Energy Ltd) an 87.5% working interest in these 63 new tracts as well as 6 tracts that Burgundy had previously been awarded in 2013 and 2014. Burgundy will retain a 4% Overriding Royalty Interest over all 69 tracts. 88 Energy has remitted US$2.98m in acreage costs and first year rentals to the State of Alaska.

The difference between the 90,720 acres originally bid on and the 89,542 acres awarded is the result of survey work completed by the State. Consequently, the gross acreage position leased by the Joint Venture will now total 98,182 acres vs the previous estimate of 99,360 acres.

To facilitate timely permitting, transfer of operatorship and other regulatory requirements associated with the drilling of the Icewine #1 exploration well, Burgundy has agreed to assign the 87.5% working interest and operatorship over ADL392301, which contains the site for the well, prior to formal issuance of the other leases. The documentation for this assignment has been submitted to the State of Alaska for approval.

88 Energy anticipates that its subsidiary, Accumulate Energy Alaska, Inc, will be officially “on title” within weeks (rather than contractually entitled to the acres as it currently is). Additional updates in relation to the process will be made as they occur.

Managing Director of 88 Energy Ltd, Dave Wall commented: “Whilst the award and assignment process is largely administrative in nature, it is a crucial piece of the puzzle and another meaningful step forward for the Company and its shareholders. 88 Energy would like to thank its JV Partner, Burgundy, for its timely and flexible approach to the process as well as the State of Alaska for the opportunity to operate on the North Slope. We look forward with great anticipation to the upcoming drilling of the Icewine #1 well prior to year end.”

Yours faithfully

Dave Wall

Managing Director

88 Energy Ltd

Project Icewine Highlights

In November 2014, the Company entered into a binding agreement with Burgundy Xploration (BEX) to acquire a significant working interest (87.5%, reducing to 78% on spud of the first well on the project) in a large acreage position on a multiple objective, liquids rich exploration opportunity onshore Alaska, North America, referred to as Project Icewine.

88 Energy, (through BEX their co-venture partner), was announced highest bidder on 90,720 acres (revised to 89,542 post survey) in the November State lease sale for the North Slope of Alaska on 20 November 2014. Post award of the acreage in Q2 2015 88 Energy will secure a 98,182 gross contiguous acre position with 85,900 acres net to the Company (76,582 net acres post spud). The primary term for the State leases is 10 years with no mandatory relinquishment and a low 16.5% royalty.

Figure 1: Project Icewine Location (please refer to the pdf version of this announcement available from the Company’s website)

Generous exploration incentives are provided by the State of Alaska with up to 85% of exploration expenditure in 2015 cash refundable, dropping to 75% mid 2016 and thereafter 35%.

The  primary objective is an untested, unconventional liquids-rich shale play in a prolific source rock, the HRZ shale,(Brookian Sequence), that co-sourced the largest oil field in North America; the giant Prudhoe Bay Oil Field Complex. Internal modelling and analysis indicates that Project Icewine is located in a high liquids vapour phase sweetspot analogous to those encountered in other Tier 1 shale plays e.g. the Eagle Ford, Texas.

Conventional play potential can be found at Project Icewine within the same Brookian petroleum system and shallow to the HRZ shale and includes high porosity channel and deep water turbiditic sands. The Brookian conventional play is proven on the North Slope; the USGS (2013) estimate the remaining oil potential to be 2.1 billion barrels just within the Brookian sequence. Additional conventional potential exists in the deeper Kuparuk sands and the Ivashuk Formation.

Drilling, (2012), in the adjacent acreage to the north confirmed that the HRZ shales, along with the underlying Kingak & Shublik shales, were all within the oil window which is extremely encouraging for the unconventional potential at Project Icewine. In addition a conventional oil discovery was reported in the Kuparuk sandstones.

A Prospective Resources Report by DeGolyer and MacNaughton, was commissioned by 88 Energy to evaluate the unconventional resource potential of Project Icewine in early December 2014 and was released to the market on 19 January 2015.

About 88 Energy: 88 Energy recently acquired an initial 87.5% working interest and operatorship in 98,182 acres onshore the prolific North Slope of Alaska (“Project Icewine”). The North Slope is the host for the 15 billion barrel Prudhoe Bay oilfield complex, the largest in North America. The Company, with its Joint Venture partner Burgundy Xploration, has identified two highly prospective play types that are likely to exist on the Project Icewine acreage – one conventional and one unconventional. The large resource potential of the Icewine Project was recently independently verified by leading international petroleum resource consultant DeGolyer and MacNaughton. In addition to the interpreted high prospectivity, the project is strategically located on a year-round operational access road and only 35 miles south of Pump Station 1 where Prudhoe Bay feeds into the TransAlaska Pipeline System. The Company plans to progress drilling and seismic in the near term to take advantage of the globally unique fiscal system in Alaska, which allows for up to 85% of CY2015 exploration expenditure to be rebated in cash.

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