–The below is a company-sponsored announcement– 88 Energy ((88E)) : (AIM:88E) has provided an update relating to its operations on the North Slope of Alaska. Today’s update discusses 88E’s mobilisation of snow road construction equipment to its Merlin-1 drill site. Merlin-1 is located at 88E’s Peregrine Project in the NPR-A region of the North Slope. 34 miles of a total ~90 miles of the snow road to Merlin-1 have been constructed so far. The spud of Merlin-1 remains on schedule for mid-late February 2021, which will target an independently assessed gross prospective resource of 645 million barrels. Project Peregrine has a Merlin-1 is the first to drill test