RE: Petro Matad presentation6 Jul 2024 13:23
Aeschylus, I also have concerns with DQE. However, this statement in the full year results RNS on 19/6 has somewhat calmed me.
The Company was in discussion with DQE Drilling (DQE), the main provider of drilling services in Mongolia for a multi-well development drilling and completion programme and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in 2023. The terms included some deferral of costs to allow a portion of the drilling expenditure to be settled from future production revenue. However, MRPAM insisted that current regulations do not cater for multi-year contracting and accordingly the Company has concluded a Tender inviting all potential contractors to bid on drilling on Block XX. DQE was the lowest bidder and has been chosen to do the work. Final contract negotiations are underway and the Company will seek to incorporate the terms of the previous MOU within the framework of the current regulations.”
As they were forced into looking at (and must therefore have) alternatives, I am hoping that DQE crack on and don’t mess us around. And I’m also assuming if they couldn’t absolutely commit to getting this done very soon and certainly this year, that MB would have chosen one of the alternatives even if it was a bit more costly. All that being said, that is assuming there are no politics and brown envelopes at play, which I’m not absolutely confident of!
But you’d like to think that in the short term at least we have a floor under the SP now, or support as the chartists would say. Even if Heron is delayed, should the SP go below 2p? And there’s a few potential positive curveballs now in Gobi and renewables, with the renewables filling plenty of column inches in the recent RNS’s and which just might pleasantly surprise us, despite my scepticism.