IN BRIEF: Sunda Energy shares down as delays drilling campaign to 2026

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Southeast Asia-focused gas asset exploration and appraisal firm - Announces that the planned Chuditch-2 appraisal well is now expected to be drilled in the first half of 2026. The well, on the Chuditch field in the TL-SO-19-16 production sharing contract, had been planned for drilling by Sunda’s wholly-owned Timor-Leste subsidiary, SundaGas, in the second half of 2025. Sunda says the delay is due to the absence of certain essential logistical services, leaving it unable to execute a definitive, agreed form rig contract. Says the joint venture partners have already applied for a 12-month extension of the PSC’s current phase. Both SundaGas and its state-owned JV partner have agreed to terminate the farm-in agreement signed in April, but have agreed to discuss other partnering arrangements, ‘including a potential revised farm-in on substantially the same terms’. ‘While this temporary delay is frustrating, the significant value to Sunda and its shareholders remains,’ Chief Executive Officer Andy Butler says. ‘We are...already working to establish a plan for timely drilling in 2026...building on the extensive preparations that have been carried out to date.’ For the Chuditch-2 well, the final environmental permit is expected to be issued during the third quarter of 2025.

Current stock price: 0.023 pence, down 38% on Monday

12-month change: down 77%

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