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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000894627-18-000051
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20180925
ITEM INFORMATION:		Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
ITEM INFORMATION:		Regulation FD Disclosure
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20180925
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20180925

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			VAALCO ENERGY INC /DE/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000894627
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311]
		IRS NUMBER:				760274813
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-32167
		FILM NUMBER:		181086017

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		9800 RICHMOND AVE.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 700
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77042
		BUSINESS PHONE:		713-623-0801

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		9800 RICHMOND AVE.
		STREET 2:		SUITE 700
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77042
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<TYPE>8-K
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			Form 8-K
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Date of Report (Da</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">te of </font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">earliest event reported): Sept</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">ember</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">25</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">, &nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">2018</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&nbsp;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;">Item 1</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;">.0</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;">1 &nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 36pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;">Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt;">.</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">On September </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">25</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">, 2018, VAALCO Energy, Inc. (&#x201C;VAALCO,&#x201D; the &#x201C;Company,&#x201D; &#x201C;we&#x201D; or &#x201C;us&#x201D;), through its wholly-owned subsidiary, VAALCO Gabon S.A. (&#x201C;VAALCO Gabon&#x201D;), received an implementing Presidential Decree from the Republic of Gabon authorizing a Sixth Amendment (the &#x201C;Sixth Amendment&#x201D;) to the Exploration and Production Sharing Contract entitled Etame Marin No. G4-160, dated as of July 7, 1995, between VAALCO Gabon, Addax Petroleum Oil &amp; Gas Gabon, Sasol Gabon S.A. and PetroEnergy Resources Corporation (collectively, the &#x201C;Contractor&#x201D;) and the Republic of Gabon, as amended on July 7, 2001, July 7, 2006, November 26, 2009, January 5, 2012 and April 25, 2016 (the &#x201C;Production Sharing Contract&#x201D;).&nbsp;&nbsp;VAALCO Gabon has a 33.575% &#x201C;Participating Interest&#x201D; (working interest attributable to the non-carried interest owner) in the Etame Marin block.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">The Sixth Amendment extends the exploitation period for the Exclusive Exploitation Authorizations &#x201C;Etame Marin n</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-size:5pt;vertical-align:super;line-height:100%">o &nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">G5-88&#x201D;, &#x201C;Ebouri n</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-size:5pt;vertical-align:super;line-height:100%">o &nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">G5-98&#x201D; and &#x201C;Avouma n</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-size:5pt;vertical-align:super;line-height:100%">o &nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">G5-95&#x201D; under the Production Sharing Contract for a period of ten years from the date of entry into force, (&#x201C;September </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">17</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">, 2018&#x201D;), of the Sixth Amendment.&nbsp;&nbsp;The extension further allows the Contractor to continue to develop the Etame field and the Etame Marin block offshore the Republic of Gabon and explore the potential for resources in the surrounding area.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Sixth Amendment also requires that, within a period of two years from September </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">17</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">, 2018, the Contractor drill two development wells and two appraisal wells and that the Contractor commits an estimated sum of $59,960,000 for the drilling of these wells.&nbsp;&nbsp;The parties further agreed in the Sixth Amendment that, for the ten year period from September </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">17</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">, 2018 through September </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">1</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">6</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">, 2028, the Contractor is entitled to take up to 80% of production remaining after deduction of the 13% royalty rate paid to the Republic of Gabon, to recover the balance of the Contractor&#x2019;s costs in the Cost Account (&#x201C;Cost Recovery&#x201D;),&nbsp;&nbsp;after which ten-year period the Cost Recovery percentage shall be 70% (which was the Cost Recovery percentage under the Production Sharing Contract prior to the Sixth Amendment).&nbsp; </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">The Sixth Amendment provides for a signing bonus payment of $65 million by the Contractor to the Republic of Gabon (the &#x201C;signing bonus&#x201D;).&nbsp;&nbsp;The signing bonus is comprised of (i) $35 million gross ($11.8 million net to VAALCO Gabon) to be paid in cash by the Contractor to the Public Treasury of the Republic of Gabon by </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">October 2</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">, 2018, (ii) $25 million gross ($8.4 million net to VAALCO Gabon) towards the reduction of the Value-Added Tax (&#x201C;VAT&#x201D;) owed by the Republic of Gabon to the Contractor by </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">October 2</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">, 2018 and (iii) $5 million gross ($1</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">.</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">7 million net to VAALCO Gabon) to be paid in cash by the Contractor to the Public Treasury of the Republic of Gabon following the end of the drilling activities for the two development wells.&nbsp; </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">Pursuant to the Sixth Amendment, the State will acquire from the Contractor with effect from June 20, 2026 an additional percentage interest in the Production Sharing Contract of two point five percent (2.5%), carried by the Contractor.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each of the companies forming part of the Contractor will transfer to the State a pro rata share of each such company&#x2019;s respective participating interest, which in the case of VAALCO Gabon will be approximately 0.8%.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">VAALCO Gabon has committed to an annual investment of approximately $175,000 over and above what the Contractor has committed to under the Production Sharing Contract as part of its corporate responsibility strategy in the Republic of Gabon.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">The foregoing description of the Sixth Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Sixth Amendment, a copy of which the Company plans to file as an exhibit to its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2018.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">On September </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">25</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">, 2018, the Company issued a press release announcing the extension of the exploitation period for the Exclusive Exploitation Authorizations &#x201C;Etame Marin n</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-size:5pt;vertical-align:super;line-height:100%">o &nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">G5-88&#x201D;, &#x201C;Ebouri n</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-size:5pt;vertical-align:super;line-height:100%">o &nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">G5-98&#x201D; and &#x201C;Avouma n</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-size:5pt;vertical-align:super;line-height:100%">o &nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">G5-95&#x201D; under the Production Sharing Contract, as well as the planned drilling in 2019 of the two development wells and the two appraisal wells.&nbsp;&nbsp;A copy of the Company&#x2019;s press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.&nbsp; </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">The information set forth in the attached Exhibit 99.1 shall not be deemed &#x201C;filed&#x201D; for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#x201C;Exchange Act&#x201D;), or incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.</font>
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			Exhibit 99.1
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			<font style="display: inline;font-family:Times;font-weight:bold;font-size:13pt;">VAALCO ENERGY, INC. ANNOUNCES 10-YEAR EXTENSION OF ETAME EXCLUSIVE EXPLOITATION AREAS THROUGH 2028</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-family:Times;font-weight:bold;font-size:13pt;">HOUSTON &#x2013; September 25, 2018</font><font style="display: inline;font-family:Times;font-size:13pt;"> &#x2013; VAALCO Energy, Inc. (NYSE: EGY) through its wholly owned subsidiary, VAALCO Gabon S.A. (&#x201C;VAALCO&#x201D; or &#x201C;the Company&#x201D;) and the other Etame Participating Interest owners today announced the receipt of the Presidential Decree approving the successful execution of an Amendment to the Etame Marin Production Sharing Contract (&#x201C;PSC&#x201D;) in Gabon between the Government of Gabon and the Etame Participating Interest owners.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Amendment provides for a 10-year extension of the three Exclusive Exploitation Areas under the PSC (&#x201C;the Extension&#x201D;).&nbsp; </font><font style="display: inline;font-family:Times;font-size:13pt;">VAALCO is the Operator with a 33.575% Participating Interest under the terms of the applicable Joint Operating Agreement.&nbsp;&nbsp;The remaining owners of Participating Interests under the Joint Operating Agreement are Addax Petroleum Etame, Inc. (33.900%), Sasol Gabon S.A. (30.000%), and PetroEnergy Resources Corp. (2.525%).&nbsp;&nbsp;VAALCO and the other Participating Interest Owners are referred to as the &#x201C;Contractor Parties&#x201D;. </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-family:Times;font-weight:bold;font-size:13pt;color:#000000;">Extends each of the existing three Exclusive Exploitation Authorizations under the Etame PSC for 10 years from the date of the signing of the Amendment, with two additional five-year option periods;</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-family:Times;font-weight:bold;font-size:13pt;color:#000000;">Provides the opportunity to make future investments that will yield benefit to both the Contractor Parties and the government of Gabon through further development of the resource potential within the Exploitation Areas;</font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-family:Times;font-weight:bold;font-size:13pt;color:#000000;">Commits the Contractor Parties to complete, within two years of the Amendment coming into force, a drilling program to drill two development wells and two appraisal wells, as well as undertake technical studies; </font></p></td></tr></table></div>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-family:Times;font-size:13pt;color:#000000;">Cary Bounds, Chief Executive Officer, commented, &#x201C;VAALCO, together with the other Contractor Parties, are very excited to announce this extension of our Exclusive Exploitation Authorizations in the Etame Marin Permit.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Extension will further strengthen our strategic partnership with the Government of Gabon and ensures the long-term viability of our premier Etame asset, which has produced more than 100 million barrels of oil since inception. This extension stabilizes VAALCO&#x2019;s outlook for the future, </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-family:Times;font-size:13pt;">Representatives of Sasol Gabon, Addax and PetroEnergy have also executed the Amendment.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Contractor Parties have also agreed to their respective Participating Interest share of the work commitment and other obligations, including the drilling commitments, under the terms of the Extension. The Contractor Parties are optimistic that these wells will be part of a broader, long-term program to develop the economically recoverable portion of the hydrocarbon resources remaining in the field which will jointly benefit VAALCO, the other Contractor Parties and the Republic of Gabon.&nbsp; </font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-family:Times;font-size:13pt;">This document includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.&nbsp;&nbsp;All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this document that address activities, events, plans, expectations, objectives or developments that VAALCO expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements.&nbsp;&nbsp;These statements may include amounts due in connection with the Company&#x2019;s withdrawal from Angola, expected sources of future capital funding and future liquidity, future operating losses, future changes in oil and natural gas prices, future strategic alternatives, capital expenditures, future drilling plans, prospect evaluations, negotiations with governments and third parties including with the government of the Republic of Gabon in connection with a revised production sharing contract, expectations regarding processing facilities, production and sales projections, reserve growth, and other issues related to our exit from Angola.&nbsp;&nbsp;These statements are based on assumptions made by VAALCO based on its experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors it believes are appropriate in the circumstances.&nbsp;&nbsp;Such statements are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond VAALCO's control.&nbsp;&nbsp;These risks include, but are not limited to, oil and gas price volatility, inflation, general economic conditions, the Company's success in discovering, developing and producing reserves, production and sales differences due to timing of liftings, decisions by future lenders, the risks associated with liquidity, the risk that our negotiations with the governments of the Republic of Gabon and the Republic of Angola will be unsuccessful, lack of availability of goods, services and capital, environmental risks, drilling risks, foreign regulatory and operational risks, and regulatory changes.&nbsp; </font>
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		<p style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:100%;font-family:Times New Roman;;font-size: 13pt"><font style="display: inline;font-family:Times;font-size:13pt;">These and other risks are further described in VAALCO's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 and quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2018, which will be filed shortly, and other reports filed with the SEC which can be reviewed at http://www.sec.gov, or which can be received by contacting VAALCO at 9800 Richmond Avenue, Suite 700, Houston, Texas 77042, (713) 623-0801.&nbsp;&nbsp;Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and that actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements.&nbsp;&nbsp;VAALCO disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-family:Times;font-size:13pt;">VAALCO Energy, Inc. is a Houston, Texas based independent energy company principally engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of crude oil. VAALCO&#x2019;s strategy is to increase reserves and production through the development and exploitation of international oil and natural gas properties. The Company's properties and exploration acreage are located primarily in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea in West Africa.</font>
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