RE: Only oil will save 88E.....17 Aug 2018 21:29
Its a shame some people cant do some easy thinking..
2 drills at up to 18mill each.. so 36mill usd total needed..
Current 75/25 88e/bex split..
To have 88e at 30% post farmout means 88e/bex can go down to 30/10, so can give away total of 60%...
Using a premium of 33% on the drill part..
Thatd be 60% x 1.33 = 80% of the 36mill total or about 29mill usd..
On top of that, cash payment for backcosts, which i think could be gross 15mill usd or so.. (ie; licence costs, 2d and 3d etc)..
60% (without any premium) of the 15mill is about 9mill usd cash to 88e/bex..
Which easily covers the 36-29=7mill usd remaining from the above drills calculation..
Hence.. 2 drills -stellar etal and bravo et al.. fully freecarried :-)
Maybe stellar in this winter season but bravo in the next..
Going further, if the premium on the drills is 50% and not 33%.. ( i have seen both sets used here and there in recent times).. then the farminee would be up for 60% x 1.5 = 90% of 36mill = 32.5mill plus the 60% of circa 15mill backcosts = +9mill equating to total of 41.5mill usd...
So about 5.5mill usd cash to 88e/bex over the fully freecarried 2 drills.. albiet leaving them with 30/10 split...
Considering the magnitude of prospective resources.. am hopefull they could even go better and get some free carry on couple appraisal wells or more 3d after that...
But would be ok with first scenario i described...
quite pleased with second possibility..
Yet very very happy with the third :-)