Exhibit 99.1
News Release
Erin Energy Announces Second Quarter 2016 Results
Provides Operational Update on its West and East Africa Operations
HOUSTON, August 8, 2016 - Erin Energy Corporation (“Erin Energy” or the “Company”) (NYSE MKT:ERN) (JSE:ERN) announced today financial and operational results for the quarter ended June 30, 2016. The Company also provided an update on its upstream operations in Africa.
Second Quarter 2016 and Current Highlights:
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• | Successfully re-established production from the Oyo-8 well; |
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• | Achieved net average daily production of 5,400 barrels of oil per day (bbls/d); |
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• | Lifted and sold 508,000 barrels of oil; |
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• | Realized revenues of $23.2 million; |
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• | Successfully restructured Zenith term loan facility. |
Segun Omidele, Chief Executive Officer commented: “We continue to make progress with our balance sheet restructuring and debt reduction initiatives, with our debt-to-equity conversion strategy receiving positive responses from some of our vendors. Various cost reduction measures that were initiated in the first-quarter 2016 are now becoming deeply embedded into our operations, even as new ways of managing costs are continually being assessed for implementation. In addition to these initiatives, management has made the tactical decision to explore acquisition opportunities created by the current upstream environment and to look for accretive, inorganic ways to grow our business.
Nigeria
During the quarter the Company successfully brought back on0line the Oyo-8 well using a deepwater light intervention vessel and achieved net average daily oil production of 5,400 barrels per day compared to 1,800 barrels per day in Q1, 2016. Currently, Oyo-8 is producing more than 7,000 barrels of oil per day. The Oyo-7 well could not come back on production naturally, after an emergency shut down that occurred on July 1, 2016. This is due to high water production from the well and this has resulted in a temporary production loss of about 1,400 barrels of oil per day.
Plans are currently being made to attempt to bring the Oyo-7 well back by introducing nitrogen from the production facilities via subsea infrastructure to the well. The Company intends to carry out this nitrogen lift after its next crude lifting scheduled for the week of August 15, 2016.
The Company continues to make progress in preparations for the next drilling campaign, which is planned to commence in the fourth-quarter of this year. Both the identification of a drilling rig and the procurement of long-lead well and subsea equipment are progressing well.
The following information was filed by Erin Energy Corp. (ERN) on Friday, August 12, 2016 as an 8K 2.02 statement, which is an earnings press release pertaining to results of operations and financial condition. It may be helpful to assess the quality of management by comparing the information in the press release to the information in the accompanying 10-Q Quarterly Report statement of earnings and operation as management may choose to highlight particular information in the press release.