RE: partner interest27 May 2019 12:39
Yanis,
Any of the following risks could stop the gas field project, and make the board focus on Weald Oil:
1 "Completion of the acquisition of 51% of the licence is conditional on the prior acquisition
of the field and licence by a third party abandonment operator". Gazprom and Wintershall
will only sell to an abandonment operator (AO).
The AO, or Gazprom and Wintershall may decide not to continue with the project for their own reasons.
2 The AO is also doing due diligence. - If Angus does not come out of due diligence well enough,
then the project might fold.
Drilling from the wrong well at Brockham, no contingency at critical times, boardroom instability,
financial health - you know the rest, - may all be factors that in the end the AO, or
Gazprom and Wintershall might fail Angus on.
3 Agreement of the national transmission system to feed into the grid. -
The grid may not be willing to proceed unless sufficient gas is going to be made
available to the grid in future years, - to make it worth their while so to speak.
Can ANGS make that amount available, - or will it cost ANGS more to keep drilling new wells
to meet the cut-off requirement.
As a condition of the gas field agreement, I expect ANGS has already been
required to pledge they will appoint a gas professional to the board to oversee
the project if it becomes reality. It would not be logical otherwise.
Tidswell has alluded to possibly >1 future project in his March 15th interview.
“The company is set to become a technical partner on several big and exciting ventures,
we will unveil those details shortly."
Remember we only know about gas because a journalist broke the story, forcing the board
to confirm next day, and possibly bringing forward the timing of raising funds.
But it is spookily evident that when the story broke, the pieces of the jigsaw had been slotted into place and the fund raising picture was complete,
There may be other projects Clanwilliam has yet to reveal if this one fails.
We can only hope a journalist flushes those stories out as well.
Saltfleetby is NOT a done deal, - as long as they are still talking, one of the parties is not ready to sign.
Buck up Angus board, - The contribution to profits in Q1 2020 from the gas field is pure *ollox and you know it.