OREANDA-NEWS. African Petroleum Corporation has signed a non-binding term sheet agreeing terms with a private London based independent oil and gas company to farm-in to the Company's 100% owned Liberian LB-08 licence ("Term Sheet").

Pursuant to the Term Sheet the third party has agreed, subject inter alia to completion of due diligence and the entering into of mutually agreed contracts, to acquire a 50% net participating interest in the LB-08 licence in return for the payment of 50% of all future costs and expenditures relating to the LB-08 licence and a contribution to past costs and expenditures.

The LB-08 Licence is situated in a highly prospective region offshore Liberia. In an independent review of African Petroleum Corporation's acreage conducted by ERC Equipoise Ltd in April 2014, the estimated net unrisked mean prospective oil resources of LB-08 exceeds two billion barrels. With an oil discovery in the adjacent licence and proof of a working hydrocarbon system in the central Liberian basin, the Company believes that LB-08 has substantial potential.

Completion of the farm-in transaction as contemplated by the Term Sheet is subject to contract and a number of conditions precedent, which, apart from one pertaining to approval from the 'Liberian Government, must be satisfied or waived no later than 29 January 2015.