RE: Swap 28 Jun 2023 08:52
We can cherry pick possible reasons for a depressed SP/MC all we want, but the now producible reserves still have a bookable value of anything between 300 & 500m depending on what you use as an average to establish that producible value.
Before Angus went in to SLBY the reserves were deemed "stranded", so at best they only had an "in the ground" value, which normally is a tiny fraction of producing reserves, generally "in the ground" being anything from 3 up to 10% of their true production value, and that is more or less exactly what it has cost Angus "in total" to this point to both acquire and get it in to production.
It is about as good as it gets for Angus, a bargain on UK land, piped directly to the grid.
When the big guns behind the market decide to make this move, then it will do just that, at which point we will all change our questioning format to suit what is driving that.
I expect Angus is carefully managing the production, especially from B7T, and the reason for that condensate production that is virtually all coming from SU4 well is being naturally formed "as the reservoir pressure/temp lowers further into the "dew point", and by managing the flow of gas, the condensates are likely to continue to drop out from A2 & B7T (not produce condensate to surface) and SU4 will likely remain as the main drain of the condensate due to the trajectory of the producing wellbore, and the condensate production is likely to increase over the years, it could be that Angus even try to work over SU4 in the future to focus on condensate drainage from the reservoir to allow for strong gas production from the other wells.
I really don't deem the debt as some kind of significant issue for Angus with the good production rates seen and direct to grid sales based on a reasonable annual average pricing, it "may" be having a small weighting on current sp/mc, but if they are doing things the right way, and that is seen on paper once figures are released then happy days.