RE: What just happened5 Mar 2025 16:40
Why the rise, easy, MATADs Heron field (half of TAMSAG Basin) is sitting on a sea of oil and that oil is needed to feed Mongolias new refinery which is expected to be completed by March 2026, at present Mongolias oil production meets only 30-35% of the oil required by the refinery.
PetroChina own the other half of the TAMSAG Basin, they have been drilling there since 2005 and as of 2021 had 311 producing wells, all the best well prospects on the PC side of the basin have been drilled, many of their earlier wells are coming to end of life.
Thoughts are that PC and MATAD will enter a JV, simply put MATAD cannot fund the amount of drilling required to ensure the refinerys required 30,000 bopd requirements, some think that rather than a JV there may be a complete buy out of the Heron field, either way MATAD is sitting on a field thatβs worth several billion dollars.