Older18 Jul 2023 12:22
The risk of total failure has been mitigated, before purchasing our own rig, we had a one shot drill. we all know that if they failed there, it was unlikely they would have been able to secure another rig next year and we would have run out of money etc etc
NOW- we own the rig, saved $1m in rig transportation costs and therefore, the risk of pretty much total wipeout is mitigated as if we miss the first time, there will be a sell of but we have several more bites of the cherry as we have a rig onsite to use as we please
so id say for us investors we have mitigated risk here, the drill is the lowest risk prospect , which showed HE previously, you have been around for long enough to know that there is risk with all drilling but this is no longer a one and done drill and is no longer black or red either. we have optionality
notwithstanding that we can lease the rig out that could also pay for future drilling operations, plus we can now drill our other prospects, that we all ignore
company has risk associated but it certainly not as high risk as a) not drilling b) one drill and done c) total failure with no resource to return for 1-2 years
in addition to this we have an over spec rig that will drill our prospect in 10 days, so we are de-risked from having a crap rig like we had before