RE: Deal or No Deal- opinions please20 Jun 2020 13:36
Canary - Uganda aside, it takes time to transform a company of this size. They've already got rid of a few bad apples, reshuffled the board and have the new CEO starting on the 1st.
A new CEO that has both African oil experience and good financial nouse. He will want to keep the momentum going in the company's progress, and make an impact as soon as possible by hitting the ground running.
Once we balance the books somewhat, and when the oil price allows, I'm sure exploration will be back on the cards.
The main focus right now is to reduce debt, capex, streamline and improve returns on every barrel of oil we produce. All of which the company appears to be doing, with the milestone getting out of Uganda (we'll agree to disagree on the price).
We also had the RBL agreed with the current debt, so don't envisage any problems on the next review if our debt has been significantly reduced this year.
Also as has already been pointed out, our hedges are worth their weight in gold right now.