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Charlie-1 looms as potential company maker for 88 Energy Written by Trevor Hoey ALASKAN focused oil and gas group, 88 Energy Ltd (ASX:88E) provided a further update on Monday regarding the progress of the group’s Charlie-1 appraisal well on the North Slope of Alaska. With the rig mobilised and drilling to start this weekend there is the potential for near-term market moving news. 88 Energy has the support of Premier Oil Plc which sees the company fully carried up to US$23 million while still maintaining a 30% working interest. Charlie-1 will test multiple stacked targets in the March quarter assessed at 480 million barrels net to 88E. This will see the group step-out to Malguk-1, an historic discovery well drilled...

88 Energy just weeks out from drilling 1.6B barrel Alaskan oil target By Meagan Evans DUAL listed junior oil explorer 88 Energy Limited (AIM: 88E | ASX: 88E) is just weeks away from spudding its Charlie-1 appraisal well at Project Icewine on the North Slope of Alaska. The drilling event at Charlie-1, which is on track for a late February spud, will see 88 Energy — along with its farm-in partner Premier Oil (LON:PMO), target 1.6 billion barrels of gross mean prospective oil resource, of which 480MMBO is net to 88E. The drilling event will intersect seven stacked prospects and could see Charlie-1 emerge as one of the world’s biggest oil wells of the year. While it has a long...