TRP3 Mar 2022 12:25
my take on recent conversations
Our short term goal is get into production in Cameroon, and then build a larger substantial production business, i expect our market capital to be considerably higher at this point.
NJOM-3 is an appraisal well, the reservoirs have already been penetrated by Total’s discovery wells, Total’s main discovery well was close to the edge of the structure so NJOM-3 is intended to be better placed to penetrate the reservoir to be able to more accurately measure reserves and then test reservoir performance.
Assuming we are happy with NJOM-3, debt finance should be no problem on successful flow test, then the next well, in addition to being a production well, will also test some reservoir layers that are to connected to the original discovery wells, possibly containing a further 3-30 million bbls.
There are also other structures identified on the license which have not yet been drilled, so they are exploration opportunities, but could be quite substantial (over 100 million bbls) and provided we can get Njonji into production then we will have a window when we can drill exploration wells in those other structures and recover costs from our Njonji production.
Once we have a substantial production business in Cameroon, will then look at gas-to-power which would allow us to develop the substantial gas resources in both our own license and other blocks in the shallow offshore.
Long term – well, that depends a bit on how things go on our various licenses in the short term.