EnergyPathways to progress ‘ready to go’ gas development in support of UK’s objectives for energy security and net zero ambitions

Dial Square Investments (to be renamed EnergyPathways plc), a UK focused integrated energy transition company, today announced that, in conjunction and simultaneously with completion of the acquisition of the entire issued share capital and other securities of EnergyPathways Ltd by the Company, at 8:00 a.m. today, its ordinary shares will commence trading on AIM under the ticker EPP. As part of the process of admission to trading on AIM, the Company has raised gross proceeds of £2m through the issue of 50,000,000 new ordinary shares of £0.01 each at an issue price of 4 pence per share, equating to a market capitalisation of approximately £6.32million on Admission.

Immediately following Admission, in accordance with the Company’s Articles, the Directors intend to pass a resolution to change the name of the Company from Dial Square Investments plc to EnergyPathways plc.

The Directors consider EnergyPathways’ key strengths to include:

‘Ready to go’ gas development with near-term supply 
The Company’s Marram Gas Project is a fully appraised gas field in the UK Irish Sea containing up to 35.3 Bcf of undeveloped gas 2P Reserves and 11 Bcf of 2C Contingent Resources in highquality reservoirs. The Marram Gas Project has potential to be developed as a short cycle project with first production potentially as early as 2025. 

Low-cost development and access to infrastructure 
The Marram Gas Project is a shallow water, subsea tieback development opportunity in close proximity to existing gas and electricity infrastructure (circa 15-25km) that has available capacity. The development is expected to comprise two shallow short lateral production wells;

Low emission energy solution 
The Marram Gas Project will produce low emission intensity gas. New UK domestically produced gas will be able to displace higher emission intensity LNG imports thereby reducing the UK’s carbon footprint. The Marram Gas Project has the potential to be integrated with regional low emission energy projects, including offshore wind generation, hydrogen hub developments and nearby CCUS projects. The UK’s leading hydrogen hub, HyNet, centred on the LiverpoolManchester corridor, will use the nearby depleted Liverpool Bay gas fields to store carbon emissions from industry and blue hydrogen production. Spirit Energy and Centrica also hope to develop a CCUS and blue hydrogen project centred on Barrow; 

Potential for reserves growth 
EnergyPathways’ internal estimates suggest that there may be up to 2 Tcf unrisked gas resource in the UK Irish Sea region, which has the potential to be developed in relatively short time frames and provide the UK with increased energy security. EnergyPathways is actively exploring opportunities to expand its resource base and has a number of licence requests under consideration with the Government regulator; 

Low technical risk 
The UK Irish Sea is a proven hydrocarbon basin. The Marram Gas Project has been fully appraised with two prior well penetrations into it and is also covered by reprocessed 2D seismic data. This data set provides good subsurface definition and a relatively narrow recoverable resource range estimate; 

Gas price outlook 
Gas accounts for 43 per cent. of UK primary energy needs. By 2030 imports are expected to account for 80% per cent. of the UK’s gas demand. The UK’s dependency on gas imports is expected to increase and will influence future UK gas prices; 

Possibility of extension of production life 
There is available capacity in nearby gas infrastructure to transport gas produced from the Marram Gas Project. Capacity is estimated to be available until the end of the decade and this could potentially be extended further, depending on the production from existing and new fields in the region, as well as a number of factors including gas price, and operating cost considerations; and 

Potential for energy transition opportunity 
The UK Irish Sea offers potential for energy transition developments including long duration energy storage, hydrogen production and flexible power generation. Realisation of this potential would help reduce the UK’s carbon footprint and support the UK’s pathway to Net Zero. EnergyPathways aims to benefit from its early mover advantage in the UK Irish Sea region. EnergyPathways has submitted licence requests for blocks containing the Knox, Lowry and Castletown undeveloped gas fields, all of which all have short cycle development potential.

Ben Clube, CEO of EnergyPathways, commented: 
“We are delighted to have completed this reverse takeover process and begin EnergyPathways’ journey as an AIM quoted company. We believe our company has a compelling investment proposition based on the fundamental market drivers for domestic gas supply to support the UK’s objectives around energy security and energy transition to net zero. Our operated Marram Gas Project is a lowrisk development with very attractive economics, and our focus through next year will be to progress that project to FID. In parallel we will seek to leverage our early mover advantage in our region of focus to build a balanced portfolio of discovered gas resources in the UK Irish Sea, an area in which we see significant opportunities for low emission gas development as well as gas storage.

“I’d like to thank our shareholders, both new and existing, for their support in the fundraising process and we look forward to repaying their faith as we deliver our strategic objectives and generate long- term value in the process. EnergyPathways has an exciting year ahead and we look forward to communicating our progress to our stakeholders and the wider market.”

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