RE: why the drop10 Dec 2019 09:34
Starresnstoff,
I didn’t post over the weekend, knowing that last weeks news was irrelevant to any upside in the stock.
Let me explain what has happened this stock.
1st well drill: The company messed up on the first Liberator drill by drilling in the wrong place and completely missing the upper Captain sands in Liberator East.
This was meant to be a near certain oil strike as it was near previous well that Dana had drilled. Caused share to drop to 17p at the time.
2nd well drilled: They moved on to SERENITY. They hit oil here, it was a decent result but not w way to near term production and cash flow. It was a bonus shall we say, but not the crucial result needed which was in Liberator East to get to production.
3rd and last well: They went back to Liberator East, used 3D seismic to pin point drill better. They HAD to hit this well and find decent amounts of oil to move forward with the game plan.
The game plan was all about Liberator East. They had to find oil here. They raised £22m to find oil here at severe dilution at 37p and warrants to do this. The dilution was acceptable (40m shares to 185m fully diluted) IF THEY HAD FOUND OIL.
The reason being, that an oil find in Liberator East would have triggered Senior Debt Funding which would have allowed the company to borrow £100m on low interest rate with no more dilution and get to production in 2020 with probably three wells drilled in Liberator East.
That would have enabled them to produce cash to fund drilling in Liberator West and Serenity.
They had been working three years with Senior Debt Funders on this. Before 3rd well was completed and results known, they raised £5m cash. Because they were raising more cash, previous loan holders who took part in fund raising back in May were compensated with more warrants.
The beauty on the warrants was that, had we found oil in Liberator East, the share price would have risen to 60p to 80p and the warrants been triggered. The cash from the warrants would have paid off the £22m loan that the company completed to do the three drills. Effectively, the warrants paid the loan, result being 185m shares.
It didn’t work out like that. The 3rd well was a big miss. Instead of finding 60-100 feet of sands above the OWC level, they found 20, later downgraded to 15. The last well result was a disaster.
It meant there was far less oil in Liberator East than we needed. It wasn’t commercial.
To further complicate things, the geology was much more complex than I or others were led to believe. It is too difficult to be certain of where the oil is in the peaks above OWC.
Effectively, the Captain sands were much lower below OWC than expected.
The Liberator East prospect was and is I believe a complete write off imho.
It means this - the company *may* have oil in Liberator West, but it is an unknown, they have to drill appraisal wells here to know if there is oil and in the quantities expected. It may be there, it will take a lot of mone