WG7 Jul 2023 09:27
WG,
As you like to repeat your numbers lets consider the asset value, which you always omit.
So if we round the total cost of SLBY to date at around £30 million, which includes:
The purchase of 100% of the asset,
The running of a field to grid pipe line,
The building of a complete field production and processing plant for grid grade gas and condensate storage,
The drilling of the Side track B7T, not just to increase the cry gas production but also to enable fuller drainage of the remaining reserves.
All the associated legal , design & development framework and all associated planning permissions etc.
The asset before Angus was a stranded asset with limited value unless a solution to the loss of Theddlethorpe could be developed, they did that, and are now entitled to show the reserves as un-stranded with that representitive value of well over £300 million of recoverables.
The total cost was around 10% of the recoverable reserves, not shabby at all, with anything from £2 to 3 million a month revenue, again not shabby numbers.
Now if you were to put a for sale sign up with the above noted then it is reasonable to expect anything from 1/3 to 1/2 of the recoverables value, so in reality a saleable producing, significant revenue generating asset of at least £100m and that is just to flog it today.
So imagine if you could get all that for just £30 million as it is today and you needed to raise funds from various avenues, some not that great, but it gets your hands on it, it would be a total no brainer, something you would have queues building to try and get it at that price, why ?? you can buy an asset like that for the original £30 million and generate enough revenue to pay that off in say 12-18 months and enjoy a further potential 5 possibly up to 10 years of varied levels of production....
Angus has done exceptionally well to do this and get it to where it is today, though it looks like their history is still haunting them to some degree, and much clearer financial transparency would help appease the markets Iam sure.