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If that’s the way you see it maybe you should not bother with this company
Very well put Longwait.
Listen HUR has got great prospects, ten years ago would have been swallowed up by now, but today fossil fuels are just NOT in favour .
To me reading this HUR to move forward need a partner farm-in or another of the dreaded share dilution . My money unfortunately is further share dilution or debt .
Yes we agree their is an issue with the size of the MCap...................too big
'At the current share price I see a lot of upside for anyone look to invest longer term, and for new investors, you will be buying at a level similar to that which those who got in early five years or more ago paid for their shares, but without many of the risks that they have had to take.'
My first purchase, 5 1/2 years ago, was at just above 40p, and my second purchase at 46p.
Someone here said he purchased at close to 50p soon afterwards.
... and we saw the mid- price subsequently slump to 8.85p.
Can you imagine what people were saying about how many things could go wrong, e.g. no-one would provide HUR with the capital needed to prove up resources, no-one would farm into any of them, no-one would want to buy the company?
Subsequently, the price slumped from 67.5p to 24p and we were hearing that the management had made a total mess of its funding, that it was incompetent, and then that it might never achieve first oil and even if it did, it would soon dry up because it had got it wrong about fractured basements.
Two posters stated that the price would 'fall rapidly' to 16p and 17p respectively.
Instead, it climbed slowly back to 60p, only to slump again and attract a new vulture yesterday, predicting 15p - implying a price earnings ratio of about one in about two years time.
He says he won't comment again until the price is in the teens.
We never heard from the two who predicted 16/17p again.
Watched the Malcy / Dr T int. from 9 mths ago Youtube. Useful reminder that always plan to only tie back one producing well to Aoka Mizu. Lincoln similar natural flow to Lancaster. so 9800 could become what, 16ks?
– I find it hard to see that not being developed in some form, despite the disappointments at Warwick, as Lincoln still looks good. On top of that it will also be generating significant amounts of revenue from GLA, even prior to the full field development, as daily output reaches the targeted initial capacity. At the current share price I see a lot of upside for anyone look to invest longer term, and for new investors, you will be buying at a level similar to that which those who got in early five years or more ago paid for their shares, but without many of the risks that they have had to take.
This horizontal well produced light 43API oil but only achieved a maximum stabilised rate of 1,300bopd, and although that was an improvement on the non-commercial result at the Warwick Deep well earlier in the year, the market seems to have been spooked by comments relating to the impact that this outcome could have on the development of the Greater Warwick Area as a whole. Hurricane and its 50% joint venture partner, Spirit Energy, which farmed into Lincoln and Warwick (combined these form the Greater Warwick Area) last year in return for a total carry of $387 million, will now have to assess what impact this has on its plans to begin development on GWA next year, as well as on the estimates of how much oil is present. This certainly doesn’t mean the end of GWA though and most likely just a change to its plans, as Lincoln has proven to be a big success, with the most recent well, completed back in September, producing a maximum stable rate of 9,800bopd, and with no formation water. Even on its own, Lincoln has 2C resources of 604mmbbls, and that is based upon the RPS Energy assessment back in 2017.
Given that Warwick was always far less certain, and that no resources had been booked – it did have large best estimate prospective resources though of 935mmbbls - I think that the drop of around £260 million in market cap was vastly overdone, even if it does mean going back to the drawing board on the GWA development. The market cap here may still sound high, but if you consider that Lancaster alone has 2P reserves of 37mmbbls, plus 486mmbbls of 2C contingent resources, plus the upside potential for the whole of the Greater Lancaster Area from the Halifax licence with 1,235mmbbls of 2C resources, then it isn’t hard to see it going higher than the current valuation.
The GLA area alone has plenty of further development planned over the next couple of years, with gas exports to solve the current production constraints on the FPSO, due to flaring rules, and a Final Investment Decision on the full development of the GLA is expected by the end of 2022, with first oil from that by 2025. As you would expect, the company has been making a loss, but now that production from the FPSO has started to ramp up, that should soon be producing substantial amounts of free cash flow, and once it reaches 17,000bopd that should yield in excess of $200 million in operating cash flow per annum, at a $60 Brent price. At the end of June the company had $81 million in the bank, with $230 million in convertible bonds which become due in 2022 and have a conversion price of $0.52/share.
Barring a collapse in the oil price, I can’t really see many reasons not to invest at these levels, especially given the sizeable free carry that it has for the potential development of GWA, via Spirit Energy – I find it hard to see that not being developed in some form, despite the disappointments at Warwick, as Lincoln still looks good. On top of that it will also be generating significant a
Hurricane Energy looks to offer a long-term investing opportunity, and without the risks that existing holders have had to take!
By Gary Newman | Friday 6 December 2019
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Hurricane Energy (HUR) is a company that I have been bullish on ever since first covering it as a buy back in June 2014, but things haven’t worked out particularly well for anyone who has been invested since that time. This is rather unfortunate, as from an operational point of view it has performed amazingly well, better than anyone could really have hoped for, and is an example of how an AIM oil explorer can sometimes succeed and take a large discovery all the way through to production. Unfortunately for longer term holders though, that has proved costly in terms of dilution to enable to company to retain 100% of its Lancaster field...
This is now producing oil at a significant rate, as it ramps up to a targeted rate of 17,000bopd from its Early Production System, via the Aoka Mizu FPSO. Back when I first covered it, the company was in the middle of its Lancaster horizontal appraisal drill and the shares were trading at 28p, and given that they are now trading at around 33p that doesn’t exactly constitute a great return for anyone who took the risk on back then and has continued to hold. What is very different though is the market cap, which was around £175 million in 2014 compared to circa £650 million today, and it just goes to show that with natural resources companies, even if you pick a winner in terms of operations, there is no guarantee that the share price will also perform well, especially if large amounts of dilution are required to reach the production stage, whilst retaining all, or a large percentage of, the asset.
With the benefit of hindsight you would of course have avoided investing in this one, but I believe that it is now at a stage where the risks are significantly reduced, given the amounts of oil it is producing - 11,000bopd as at the last update at the start of the month, and in line with guidance. But there is also still enough potential upside to make it attractive, and if all goes to plan I can still see this growing into a much larger outfit, despite the level the market cap has already reached. The share price has plummeted from around the 40-45p area, where it had been trading fairly steadily for a few months, following news at the start of the week on the testing of its 204/30b-4 well at Warwick West.
This horizontal well produced light 43API oil but only achieved a maximum stabilised rate of 1,300bopd, and although that was an improvement on the non-commercial result at the Warwick Deep well ear