Key Assets
Atrush Block
ShaMaran is a Canadian oil and gas company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and the NASDAQ First North Growth Market (Sweden) under the symbol “SNM.” The Company has a 27.6% ownership interest in Atrush Block, a high‐quality oil field in Kurdistan that has a large production base with significant growth potential. As a Lundin Group Company, ShaMaran can leverage the expertise and strength of a group that has been building resource companies around the world for more than 40 years.
2020 was a challenging year, due to the global coronavirus pandemic (“COVID‐19”) and the collapse of crude oil prices. Despite the turmoil Atrush has continued to meet production targets while reducing lifting costs and has also been able to sustain replaced produced volumes in the Atrush block despite the significantly reduced 2020 development program. The Company also during the year successfully completed measures that resolved the liquidity shortfall and strengthened the Company’s financial position enabling it to meet its bond interest obligations.
2020 Operational Highlights
- 2020 oil production increase of 39% (2020 vs 2019);
- Cumulative production of 40 million barrels achieved on January 4, 2021 despite a significantly reduced 2020 development program due to the global pandemic and the first quarter 2020 collapse of crude oil prices;
- Average production of approximately 40,800 barrels of oil per day (“bopd”) for the fourth quarter of 2020; lower than the year’s average due deferral of capital development wells, and operational interventions aggregated in this quarter;