VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - May 2, 2014) - Mr. Ian Rozier, President of Newport Exploration Ltd. ("Newport" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:NWX), wishes to provide further information on oil and gas permits in Australia that are subject to the Company's oil and gas royalty interests. As disclosed in financial statements and various news releases since September 2002, the Company holds a 2.5% overriding royalty on several oil and gas permits in the Cooper Basin in Australia.
Interested shareholders and potential investors have been encouraged to access information released independently by the operators of the oil and gas permits, further details of which were provided in the Company's news release dated April 29th, 2014.
Both Drillsearch Energy Limited ("Drillsearch") and Beach Energy Limited ("Beach") just released information that made several references to their activities on PEL 91 (Beach 40% and Operator Drillsearch 60%). Drillsearch's Q3 update provides information on recent discoveries on PEL 91 along with production details, their estimated "preliminary gross undeveloped reserves" information with respect to wells that will become future producers, and on work "on the upgrade of fluid handling facilities at Bauer (on PEL 91) which will increase total capacity to 50,000 barrels of oil and water a day."
"We are very pleased to see the outstanding exploration success continuing on PEL 91 and the progress made with the upgrade of infrastructure to support additional production," said Mr. Ian Rozier, President of the Company. "This should lead to significant ongoing growth in our royalty proceeds."
The Company has no advanced access to such information and furthermore, cannot be responsible for statements made by the Operators. Notwithstanding the above, the Company encourages shareholders and potential investors to access information released independently by the Operators on a regular basis in order to keep current.
The Company wishes to make a correction to the news release dated April 29, 2014; the royalty payment received for the first quarter of 2014 was AUD $3.834 million (CDN $3.781 million).
All royalty payments received by the Company will continue to be reported in our financial statements.
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