RE: Nice Rise31 Aug 2023 18:19
Angus’ long term solvency is presently unquestioned but liquidity is tight this year principally because of the temporarily increased opex, lower spot gas prices, historic hedge payments, the accelerated repayment schedule on the senior debt as well as the overruns on the drilling operations. Many of these factors have gone away or will go away as we enter into autumn. We have been open about our liquidity need, sensitive to shareholders concerns about dilution and clear about our plans to refinance all of the debt into a term loan of greater duration, and we consider this a reasonable target. The lending community were prepared to advance £12m in May 2021 when the site had no connection, no process plant and no third well and gas prices were muted. Now we have all three and steady production at or near our target and forward gas prices which are historically high