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Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income

Period ended 30 June 2021

The notes included below form an integral part of these financial statements.

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position

Period ended 30 June 2021

The notes included below form an integral part of these financial statements.

Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity

Period ended 30 June 2021

The notes included below form an integral part of these financial statements.

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows

Period ended 30 June 2021

The notes included below form an integral part of these financial statements.

Notes to the Financial Statements

Period ended 30 June 2021

1. Accounting Policies 

General Information 

These financial statements are for Echo Energy plc (“the Company”) and subsidiary undertakings (“the Group”). The Company is registered, and domiciled, in England and Wales and incorporated under the Companies Act 2006.

Basis of Preparation

The condensed and consolidated interim financial statements for the period from 1 January 2021 to 30 June 2021 have been prepared in accordance with International Accounting Standards (“IAS”) 34 Interim Financial Reporting, and on the going concern basis. They are in accordance with the accounting policies set out in the statutory accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020 and are expected to be applied for the year ended 31 December 2021.

The comparatives shown are for the period 1 January 2020 to 30 June 2021, and 31 December 2020 and do not constitute statutory accounts, as defined in section 435 of the Companies Act 2006, but are based on the statutory financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020.

A copy of the Company’s statutory accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020 has been delivered to the Registrar of Companies; the accounts are available to download from the Company website at www.echoenergyplc.com.

Going Concern

The Group’s business activities, together with the factors likely to affect its future development, performance and position are set out in the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer’s Statement  above. The financial position of the Group, its cash flows and liquidity position are set out in these Condensed Interim Financial Statements.

The directors have performed a robust assessment, including consideration of the principal risks faced by the Group and taking into account the ongoing impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic on the macroeconomic situation and any potential impact to operations.

The financial information has been prepared assuming the Group will continue as a going concern. Under the going concern assumption, an entity is ordinarily viewed as continuing in business for the foreseeable future with neither the intention nor the necessity of liquidation, ceasing trading or seeking protection from creditors pursuant to laws or regulations. Whilst rigorously pursuing cost control and value maximising strategies, the Group recognises that in order to pursue organic and inorganic growth opportunities and fund on-going operations it will require additional funding. This funding may be sourced through debt finance, joint venture equity or share issues.

The directors have formed a judgement based on Echo’s proven success in raising capital and a review of the strategic options available to the Group, that the going concern basis should be adopted in preparing the Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements.

Estimates

The preparation of the interim financial information requires management to make judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect the application of accounting policies and the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, income and expense. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

In preparing this condensed interim financial information, the significant judgements made by management in applying the Group’s accounting policies and the key sources of estimation uncertainty were the same as those applied to consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020. The key sources of uncertainty in estimates that have a significant risk of causing material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities, within the next financial year, are the Group’s going concern assessment.

Revenue Recognition

Revenue comprises the invoice value of goods and services supplied by the Group, net of value added taxes and trade discounts. Revenue is recognised in the case of oil and gas sales when goods are delivered and title has passed to the customer. This generally occurs when the product is physically transferred into a pipeline or vessel. Echo recognised revenue in accordance with IFRS 15. We have a contractual arrangement with our joint venture partner who markets gas and crude oil on our behalf. Gas is transferred via a metred pipeline into the regional gas transportation system, which is part of the national transportation system, control of the gas is transferred at the point at which the gas enters this network, this is the point at which gas revenue is recognised. Gas prices vary from month to month based on seasonal demand from customer segments and production in the market as a whole. Our partner agrees pricing with their portfolio of gas clients based on agreed pricing mechanisms in multiple contracts. Some pricing is regulated by government such as domestic supply. Echo receive a monthly average of gas prices attained. Oil shipments are priced in advance of a cargo and revenue is recognised at the point at which cargoes are loaded onto a shipping vessel at termina

2. Business Segments 

The Group has adopted IFRS 8 Operating Segments. Per IFRS 8, operating segments are regularly reviewed and used by the board of directors being the chief operating decision maker for strategic decision-making and resources allocation, in order to allocate resources to the segment and assess its performance.

The Group’s reportable operating segments are as follows:

  a.  Parent Company

                b.  Eastern Austral Basin

                c.           Tapi Aike

                d.            Bolivia

Performance is based on assessing progress made on projects and the management of resources used. Segment assets and liabilities are presented inclusive of inter-segment balances. Reportable segments are based around licence activity, although the reportable segments are reflected in legal entities, certain corporate costs collate data across legal entities and the segmental analysis reflects this.

Information regarding each of the operations of each reportable segment within continuing operations is included in the following table.

All revenue, which represents turnover, arises within Argentina and relates to external parties:

Consolidation adjustments in respect of assets relate to the impairment of intercompany assets .

~Depreciation is included in administration expenses

The geographical split of non-current assets arises as follows:

3. Revenue

4. Cost of Sales

5. Finance Income

The Interest income principally relates to interest gained on Argentine VAT balances owed and paid to the Group in May 2021.

 6. Financial Expense

7.Derivative Financial Gain/Loss

Represents fair value gain on valuation of derivatives instruments at period end.

8.Taxation

The Group has tax losses available to be carried forward in certain subsidiaries and the parent company. Due to uncertainty around timing of the Group’s projects, management have not considered it appropriate to anticipate an asset value for them. No tax charge has arisen during the six month period to 30 June 2021, or in the six months period to June 2020, or the year to 31 December 2020. 

9. Loss Per Share

The calculation of basic and diluted loss per share at 30 June 2021 was based on the loss attributable to ordinary shareholders. The weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the period ending 30 June 2021 and the effect of the potentially dilutive ordinary shares to be issued are shown below.

In accordance with IAS 33 and as the entity is loss making, including potentially dilutive share options in the calculation would be anti-dilutive. Deferred shares have been excluded from the calculation of loss per share due to their nature.

10. Property, Plant and Equipment

11. Other Intangible Assets 

Exploration and Evaluation

On 22 December 2020 the Company announced that it had allowed the lapse of the option to re enter the Tapi aike asset. This resulted in Echo withdrawing its interest and liabilities under the Tapi Aike concessions prior to the drilling of the next exploration well in the Tapi Aike Western Cube.

12.Cash and Cash Equivalents

Echo has advanced cash to its joint venture partner. The equity share of the balance held is recognised

13. Share Capital

The holders of 0.32c (0.25p) ordinary shares are entitled to receive dividends from time to time and are entitled to one vote per share at meetings of the Company.

During the six month period to 30 June 2021, 258,762,165 share were issued.

14. Share Premium Account

15. Loans

US $ 138,065 of the total loan balance is shown in current liabilities and US $28,162,903 is shown non-current liabilities.

Bond restructure

On 22 February 2021, Echo announced further to the Company’s announcement of 1 December 2020, its proposals in respect of a restructuring of the Company’s Bonds, it proposed to:

• Extend the maturity of the Bonds by three years to 15 May 2025 (the “Maturity Date”); and

• Remove all cash interest payments on the Notes prior to the Maturity Date.

On approval, all interest on the Bonds accruing from 31 December 2019 shall be paid in cash on the Maturity Date save that Noteholders will be provided with the ability, from 30 September 2021, to elect to receive Bond interest payments in respect of the immediately preceding quarter in new ordinary Shares in the Company (“Elections”), subject inter alia to the Company having the required share issuance authorities in place from time to time to satisfy elections and to Noteholders holding at least 50 per cent of the Bonds having made Elections in respect of the relevant quarter. Any new ordinary shares issued as a result of elections would be issued at an effective issue price equal to the volume weighted average price of an Echo ordinary share for the 10 Business Days before the relevant interest conversion date.

As part of the Proposals, the Company agreed that it will not, without the prior consent of Noteholders, drill an exploration well with a budgeted cost to the Company of in excess of EUR 5.0 million for so long as the Bonds are outstanding and that it will not, in the last 18 months prior to the Maturity Date, make an acquisition of an interest in an oil and gas property, lease or licence if the cash consideration for such acquisition exceeds EUR 10.0 million.

A payment of EUR 100,000, payable to Bondholders, was satisfied by the issue of new ordinary shares in the Company at an issue price equal to the average mid-market closing price per Echo ordinary share for the five days ending, and including, 18 February 2021.

Subsequently on 30 March 2021, a requisite majority of Bondholders approved the Debt restructuring proposals. Echo issued a total of 11,473,929 new ordinary shares in the Company (representing c.0.9% of the Company’s current issued ordinary share capital) to Bondholders.

16. Subsequent Events

Operational Update

On 26 August 2021, following installation of the pipeline required to bring back online the liquids production which was shut in April 2020, the infrastructure was successfully commissioned for operation and shut-in wells are being brought online.  This follows an upgrade of the electrical infrastructure, which was designed to support the first tranche of production from the Campo Molino and Chorillos oil fields to provide sufficient power to support sustained production from the associated ten wells.

To date, the Campo Molino oil field has been brought back online with four of the shut-in wells now back in operation and producing from the Springhill reservoir. This first tranche of restored production will increase the number of active producing oil wells at Santa Cruz Sur to 18.

As of 23 August 2021, the recently reactivated wells have contributed to an almost 50% increase in total liquids production at Santa Cruz Sur compared to the period immediately prior to this (281 bopd gross, 197 bopd net to Echo – during the period 1 -17 August 2021). This represents an increase of 137 bopd gross, 95 bopd net to Echo and work continues to bring the remainder of the first tranche of shut-in production back online. The production levels from the initial reactivated wells indicate that the shut-in period has not had a detrimental impact on reservoir behaviour in the Campo Molino oil field. Prior to shut-in, the combined gross production from the ten oil wells was approximately 138 bopd gross, 96 bopd net to Echo, approximately the same level now being achieved from the initial four wells, with the associated upgraded infrastructure.