President increases Salta acreage by eight-fold

Argentinean expansion: President Petroleum gains acreage surrounding oil-producing Puesto Guardian

London-listed President Petroleum has been awarded two additional exploration blocks in Argentina.

The licence areas, Matorras and Ocultar, cover 2203 square kilometres and surround the company’s existing 633-square kilometre Puesto Guardian concession.

President chairman Peter Levine said in a statement that the award of the new blocks “marks an eight-fold increase in the company’s net acreage position in Salta Province and protects the company’s potential major deep gas exploration play, which has the possibility of significant value generation should the first Palaeozoic well on Puesto Guardian, currently scheduled for 2013, be successful”.

President added that its bid for the nearby Pizzaro licence area was unsuccessful…

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