VANCOUVER, Sept. 10 /CNW/ - TAG Oil Ltd. (TSX-V: TAO) reports that the Company has granted a total of 650,000 stock options to certain directors, officers, employee's and consultants pursuant to its incentive stock option plan. These new options are exercisable at a price of $2.60 per share until September 9, 2015 and will vest over a period of eighteen months.
TAG Oil Ltd.
TAG Oil Ltd. is a Canadian-based company with international operations in New Zealand. The Company holds a drill-ready prospect inventory that covers more than 3,500 sections of land in the Taranaki and East Coast basins, including a 100% interest in the producing Cheal oil and gas discoveries now under appraisal and development.
In the East Coast Basin, TAG is planning a drilling campaign to further investigate the major unconventional resource potential that has been demonstrated in the Waipawa and Whangai fractured shale source-rock formations that are widespread across the Company's acreage. The geological characteristics of these formations compare favorably to oil-rich shale formations such as the Bakken Shale in the Williston Basin and Liassic Shale in the Paris Basin.
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For further information: Dan Brown or Garth Johnson, TAG Oil Ltd., 1-604-682-6496, Website: http://www.tagoil.com
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