Nostra Terra Oil &

Gas Company
May 2008

VALUE 2

UKRAINE 2

THE OKTYABRSKOE LICENCE 3

The Joint Activity Agreement 3
Reserves 4
Oktyabrskoe 4
West Oktyabrskoe 5

CASH FLOW ESTIMATES 5

Assumptions 5
Estimates 8
Net present value 8

MANAGEMENT 9
Non-executive director 10

Index: Aim

Sector: Mining

Key points

• First two reopened Ukranian

wells confirm historic records

• Initially will develop 7 wells

with 29 in the pipeline

• Recent placing should fund

Well 1, and company looks
cash positive now
Equity Development
• Fair value for first phase of Limited is authorised
investment is 1.665p / share and regulated by The
vs current 1.2p Financial Services
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Company
Nostra Terra Oil & Gas
Company Description: Nostra Terra was formed to develop former Soviet Company
Union oil and gas wells in the Oktyabrskoe licence area in Crimea, an
NTOG
autonomous republic in Ukraine
Date: 20.05.08
Share price p 1.2
12 month Hi/Lo 2.75p / 0.875p
Nostra Terra has re-opened its first two oil wells in the Oktyabrskoe Ord 25p (m) issued 421.8

licence area, in Ukraine, with results which confirm historic records. Market cap £m 5
Initial Price target
The recent placing funds development of these wells, and we believe the company 1.665p

is now cash positive in its day-to-day operations.

Nostra Terra’s initial plan is to re-open and develop seven wells, the first four for
the production of oil from Oktyabrskoe and the other three for the production of Exchange rate used
£ : US$ 1.9488
liquid gas from West Oktyabrskoe. Development should be funded by cash flows
At 15 May 2008
from wells as and when they come on stream.

The licence area contains another 29 wells, 15 in Oktyabrskoe and 14 in West

Oktyabrskoe. These may be the subject of further exploitation by the company
once it has completed the first phase of its investment programme. We have little
or no information available on them, however, and are unable to assign any
value.

Our estimate of NPV based on the first phase of investment comes to 1.665p per
share, which we choose as an initial price target. This will be subject to revision
as results come through and also on receipt of information on the additional
unexploited assets.

Figure 1: Price performance

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Equity Development contact

Andy Edmond

020 7405 7777

andy@equitydevelopment.co.uk
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VALUE
Nostra Terra came to aim in July 2007 by way of a reversal into the cash shell
LHP Investments, with a placing at 0.5p per share to raise £350,000 for the
business before expenses (fees satisfied by an issue of an additional 20m shares).

The company was formed to re-activate the Oktyabrskoe and West Oktyabrskoe
oil and gas field in Crimea, Ukraine. Under former Soviet control the field had
been fully explored, but had not been moved to the production stage. Nostra
Terra has to date re-opened two of the seven wells it intends to develop

We believe the company is now cash flow positive on a day-to-day basis, and
should soon generate substantial amounts of cash.

Nostra Terra has only recently begun operations, and has yet to prove itself. Our
numbers are, however, relatively conservative in that they relate only to seven
wells, while there is a total of 36 possibly to be exploited.

Our central estimate of NPV for the seven wells is 1.665p per share, which we
think is a reasonable figure to choose as an initial price target.

UKRAINE
Figure 2: Map of Ukraine

CIA

Ukraine borders Russia to the east, Belarus to the north, Poland, Slovakia and
Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova (including the disputed territory of
Transnistria) to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south.

Ukraine is well developed culturally and economically. In the days of the former
Soviet Union it was second only to Russia in its economic importance, producing
about four times the output of the next-ranking republic.

Shortly after independence in December 1991, the Government liberalised most

prices and erected a legal framework for privatisation, but reform became stalled,
and output by 1999 had fallen to less than 40% of the 1991 level.

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Since then the economy has improved, and reform in 2005 has helped to produce
a strongly growing economy, with real GDP growing by about 7% in 2007.

The country is heavily dependent on imports for its oil and gas needs, which are
sourced mostly from Russia. Gas is particularly important, and sensitive politically
– price rises and supply interruptions have caused problems.

Ukraine has 24 provinces and one autonomous republic: Crimea. Crimea was part
of Russia until the Ukrainian Nikita Khrushchev transferred it to Ukraine in 1954.
Its population of about 1.8m people is for the most part ethnically and culturally
Russian.

THE OKTYABRSKOE LICENCE

Nostra Terra is not in the business of exploration or development of new
prospects. The licence it has taken over was a confirmed production asset, under
previous Soviet (‘FSU’) control.

The nature of the acreage to be exploited is well known, and the

existence of hydrocarbons an established fact.

The licence area contains 36 wells drilled by the exploration arm of the USSR
between 1960 and 1991 which were capped prior to the break-up of the USSR.
The field was never advanced to production due to competing alternative higher
priorities within the Soviet production department, and has lain dormant ever
since.

Only seven of these wells are the subject of the initial re-opening plan being
carried out by Nostra Terra.

The Joint Activity Agreement

Nostra Terra’s partner in Ukraine is NAK Nadra Krymgeologia (‘Krymgeologia’), a
subsidiary of NAK Nadra Ukrainiy, which is wholly owned by the State of Ukraine.
Krymgeologia holds exploration and pilot production licences renewed last year for
five years, automatically convertible into production licences for a term of 15
years.

The relationship between Nostra Terra and Krymgeologia is governed by a Joint

Activity Agreement (‘JAA’) whose principal objective is the exploitation of the
Oktyabrskoe area in Tarkhankut peninsula of northern Crimea (itself a peninsula
off the south of Ukraine). Nostra Terra, through its local ‘Representation’ is the
operator of the JAA.

As operator, Nostra Terra is responsible for all operational matters, including

capital expenditure, subject to the approval of a committee formed of three
representatives from each side. JAA revenues, determined after all operating
costs, royalties and tax, are distributed as follows:

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Table 1: Distribution of net revenues

Net revenues 100%
Capex recovery to Nostra Terra 60%
Remaining 40%
Of which:
Nostra Terra 70%
Krymgeologia 30%

Company

The net result of this is that Nostra Terra receives 88% of net revenues until
capex is recovered, and thereafter 70%.

Reserves
The licence area contains two reservoir horizons, the Necomian and the
Cenomanian, at depths of 1,700m and 2,800m respectively. These have been
confirmed from the results of wells re-opened so far.

The AIM Admission document contained a Competent Person’s Report (‘Trimble

CPR’)1 compiled after a site visit and review of previous documentation. This
contained an estimate of possible developed reserves as follows:

Table 2: Summary of reserves (seven wells)

Possible developed Gross
Oil - Mbbl 372.6
Sales gas - MMcf 8,030.7
Condensate - Mbbl 46.1

Trimble CPR

The Trimble CPR based its estimates on very conservative assumptions, the
principal ones being that only 15% of initial oil in place would be recovered and,
in addition, that recovery rates would deplete at a rate of 22% per annum. The
price of oil was taken at $65.35/bbl and of gas at $3.66/Mcf. On this basis, NPV to
Nostra Terra after royalties, tax and partner share was calculated at $19m, using
a discount rate of 10%.

The field is in two parts, Oktyabrskoe and West Oktyabrskoe, with West
Oktyabrskoe producing gas rather than oil.

Oktyabrskoe
This contains 19 wells, four of which are being re-opened at this stage. Three of
these had previously been completed and tested with commercial hydrocarbon
production rates. The fourth (Well 10) is assumed to be analogous to the others.

The quality of oil is very high at 500API2, Russians anecdotally piping it straight
from the well into their cars.

Well 1 within the Neocomian reservoir was operated by Krymgeologia for about
two years before Nostra Terra became the operator, producing oil at the rate of

1
‘Competent Person’s Report Anglo Crimean Oil Company Reserves and Present Worth
Oktyabrskoe License, Crimea, Ukraine’ by Trimble Engineering Associates Ltd., dated
28 February 2007
2
Source: Nostra Terra

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about 20bbl/day for twelve hours per day, equal to 10bbl/day. The production
zone is between 2,671m and 2,733m.

Significantly, this production rate was confirmed by Nostra Terra for the month of
March 2008, when oil production was 391 bbls (above the average for the
previous operations). The well was opened every 36 hours, producing free flowing
light oil of 0.78 specific gravity (500API).

Well 24 in the Cenomanian was re-opened in April 2008 to a total depth of

1,784m, with all cement bridge plugs removed. The results of wire logging tests
were consistent with historic records, with a pay zone between 1,750m and
1,755m: they also identified a previously unknown layer between 1,743m and
1,748m.

A subsequent test locked in the packer at 1,650m. In addition to a flow of oil from
the primary zone, the zone above the packer produced oil which flowed into the
space between the tubing and the casing and rose to the surface, indicating
another pay zone.

Well 10 in the Cenomanian should be re-opened in August 2008 and Well 50 in

the Cenomanian in October. They are expected to be similar in profile to the first
two.

West Oktyabrskoe
Gas in liquid form will be the principal product from West Oktyabrskoe.

The wells were suspended in 1982 due to hydrocarbon liquid loading: at the time,
Krymgeologia did not have the financial resources or the mandate to install lifting
equipment. Re-opening by Nostra Terra will involve the installation of such
equipment.

Trimble recommended that Well 9 in the Neocomian be re-opened as a gas

injection well until gas gathering and compression facilities are constructed
independently by third parties, at which point the JAA would be subject to fees of
about $0.50/Mcf.

We expect Well 31 in the Neocomian to be re-opened in December 2008, with

Wells 9 and 28 in the Neocomian to follow at two-monthly intervals.

CASH FLOW ESTIMATES

Assumptions

Production rates
When under FSU control the management did not have access to the capital to
invest in methods of recovery assisted by lifting equipment – also, in part, there
were fears that pumps might damage the wells.

From conversations with the Nostra Terra management we gather that

substantially higher rates of recovery can be attained by the addition of pumps, at
rates of up to 150bbls/day, and that more hydrocarbons can be recovered than at
the 50bbls/day assumed in the Trimble report. We have assumed 100bbls/day
peak production of oil per well in the case of Oktyabrskoe, implying greater

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production than stated recoverable reserves – which are only 15% of initial oil in
place. This may be optimistic.

In the case of West Oktyabrskoe we have followed the Trimble numbers.

Taken to 2018, this results in the production profile shown in the following chart:

Figure 3: Production - Mboe

Mboe
120

100
Well 28
80 Well 9
Well 31
60 Well 50
Well 10
40 Well 24
Well 1
20

0
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This emphasises the importance of gas production from the later development of
West Oktyabrskoe. It is, of course, less important than this in money terms
because of the price differential:

Figure 4: Gross revenue ($000)

$000
5,000
4,500
4,000 Well 28

3,500 Well 9
Well 31
3,000
Well 50
2,500
Well 10
2,000 Well 24
1,500 Well 1
1,000
500
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Oil Price
Prices realised for product will be related to world market prices – there are no
price controls for oil and gas prices within Ukraine, although gas prices are very
sensitive politically – but the market, given that Nostra Terra will be a small
producer, will be local.

Wellhead price will apply for oil, with Nostra Terra not responsible for transport
charges other than for storage on site. Transportation will be via 8m3 capacity
trucks (about 50bbls), and will be the responsibility of the buyer.

In our calculations we have used the Equity Development price assumptions for
oil, which are $90-110/bbl current and $80/bbl from late 2008 on, against the
present price for Brent crude of about $125/bbl. We have not applied any
inflationary increases to this, nor have we done so far as costs are concerned.

Water content
Oil from Oktyabrskoe contains about 5% water. Nostra Terra will not undertake
any cleaning process, but will sell the oil in the form in which it comes out from
the ground. We have assumed a discount of 5% to the ruling price of oil.

Gas price
Gas prices are difficult to determine – typically, they are related to the equivalent
energy rate for oil, but are less volatile. For our purposes, we have assumed 50%
of the price of oil, on a boe basis.

This will imply the construction of a pipeline to the gas plant being constructed by
Indusmin about 1.5km away. We have factored in a capex cost of $500,000 for
this, and assumed it will take place in Q4 2008.

Royalties
Royalties are set as a percentage of gross receipts, calculated on a formula
determined and payable monthly in arrears. They vary each month at about 50%
of gross JAA receipts: we have assumed 55% throughout.

Rental
Rental is payable as and when wells come into operation. We have assumed
$2,000 per well per month.

Capex
Development of the Oktyabrskoe field is not capital-intensive. We have assumed a
starting cost of about $300,000 per well, to include the installation of pumps. In
addition to this, we have assumed expenditure of $500,000 for the construction of
a gas pipeline link to the Indusmin plant.

Overheads
Site overheads are very low: we have assumed $2,200 per month per well.

Cash requirements
The recent placing at 0.75p / share brought in £370,000, which should be
sufficient to cover the development cost of Well 1. We have also assumed a final
drawdown of the loan from Power Elite with conversion into equity.

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We estimate that the JAA is currently cash positive on a month by month basis
and, with cash flow from wells as they come on stream, should be capable of
funding the development of all seven wells without recourse to further external
finance.

We assume rapid development of all seven wells over a period of twelve months
from now. This may prove to be an optimistic timescale: if unforeseen problems
occur there could be delays impacting on our estimates.

Estimates
We have modelled the field on a monthly basis to begin with, because of the
importance of short term cash flow, and thereafter quarterly. Discounting is also
on a quarterly basis.

Parent company cash flows include the money received from the recent placing,
and also from the presumed further drawdown from Power Elite.

Also of importance is the recovery from revenue by Nostra Terra of General Sales
Tax (Ukraine equivalent of Value Added Tax) already paid: this amounts to about
$500,000.

In the following estimates we have included all capital movements in the figures
for Oktyabrskoe:

Table 3: Nostra Terra summary cash flows for first five years
Year to end December 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
$000 $000 $000 $000 $000
Gross revenue 2,071 15,859 14,383 12,953 10,105
Royalties (1,139) (8,723) (7,911) (7,124) (5,558)
Net revenue 932 7,137 6,472 5,829 4,547

Cash flow to JAA 117 5,795 4,710 3,477 2,516

Cash flow to Nostra Terra ($000) 1,738 5,323 3,582 2,596 1,761
Cash flow to Nostra Terra (£000) 892 2,731 1,838 1,332 904

ED estimates

Net present value

Our NPV estimates are calculated on a quarterly basis. At varying discount rates,
they are as follows:

Table 4: NPV of cash flows

8.00% 10.00% 12.00%
Oktyabrskoe $000 7,801 7,509 7,206
West Oktyabrskoe $000 6,787 6,429 6,062
14,588 13,938 13,268

NPV in £000 7,486 7,152 6,808

Exercise of options etc 728 728 728
8,214 7,880 7,537
Fully diluted per share p 1.735 1.665 1.592

ED

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MANAGEMENT
The following information is taken from the company’s web site:

Non-executive chairman
Sir Adrian Blennerhassett holds a Masters of Geology from Imperial College,
London and an MBA from Cranfield School of Business Management. Sir Adrian
has previously held positions as general manager for Claremount Oil & Gas Ltd
and has acted as technical director at Peninsula Petroleum Ltd. He has experience
of corporate finance and securities activities and more recently had eleven years
experience in corporate finance including mergers and acquisitions.

Chief executive
Brian Courtney has been actively investing in the oil and gas business for over
thirty years, first working with Desmond Smith on the Ingoldsby 10-12 horizontal
well, and most recently by serving as the Chairman and CEO of Ucoco Energy,
Inc. In addition Mr. Courtney has held many senior executive positions and public
company directorships including being founding president and former VP of
America’s Oracle Corporation Canada and director of EFT Canada Inc. Most
recently Mr. Courtney served as CEO of Global Election Systems Inc. - an
American Stock Exchange listed company, and was chairman and CEO of Patent
Enforcement and Royalties, a TSX Venture Exchange listed company. Mr.
Courtney has been investing in Ukraine for three years. Mr. Courtney is a
graduate of the University of Manitoba (B. Comm.).

Chief operating officer

Neville Desmond Smith is a geologist who has worked in the oil and gas
business for over thirty years and is an honours graduate in geology from the
University of British Columbia. Mr. Smith has held several senior executive
positions with upstream oil and gas international companies including companies
in Canada, the USA, Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Amongst his most recent
endeavours were his role as president and CEO of Tai Energy Corporation,
formerly a public Canadian oil and gas company and recent senior international
assignments as COO of A&B Geoscience Corporation (Arawak Energy Corp.) and
Nostra Terra (Overseas) Ltd. Mr. Smith has been working in the FSU since 1995
and in Ukraine for the last six years.

Chief financial officer

Glenn MacNeil has been actively investing in the oil and gas business for over
fifteen years and recently served as a director for Hegco Canada, Inc. - a Toronto
Stock Exchange junior oil and gas company. Mr MacNeil holds a Bachelor of
Business Administration degree (B.B.A.) and is also a Chartered Accountant
(Canada), a Certified Management Accountant (Canada) and a Certified Public
Accountant (USA). Mr MacNeil has also held a number of international senior
executive positions with various publicly traded insurance companies over the
past twenty years. In addition, he worked in public accounting with Deloitte and
Touche. He is also a director of three FSA regulated companies and has been a
director of a financial services company - Lancaster Sierra Capital Corporation,
which trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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Non-executive director
Stephen Vaughan Oakes has over 30 years experience in financial markets and
is a Fellow of the Securities Institute. He began his career with stockbrokers
Vickers da Costa Ltd, becoming a Member of the Stock Exchange in 1984. In 1985
he joined the then James Capel & Co (now HSBC Investment Bank plc) as a
portfolio manager. Increasing management responsibility culminated in the
position of Chief Executive Officer, HSBC Investment Management, firstly in
respect of the international business and subsequently as acting CEO of the
combined UK and international operations. He left HSBC in December 2002 and in
October 2003 he joined Alfred Henry Corporate Finance Limited. He is currently a
director of Alltrue Investments Plc and Chief Executive Officer of Falcon Securities
(UK) Ltd. He is Chairman of Timestrip plc and is also a director of a number of
companies whose shares are traded on AIM.

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Conor Fahy, Consultant
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