RE: Read all I can, but?2 Dec 2020 12:08
Hi Optimist, I've provided some answers below. Obviously my opinion but I'm also a large PI shareholder here. I've been burned here, but now hold a very large amount of shares so consider myself optimistic, but realistic about past happenings.
- Large Director skin in the game - Yes and No. They received most of their shares with f'all money being invested. So although they benefit from getting things right, they also don't lose much from f'ing things up.
- A producer with excellent assets and 10,000 boepd - Producer yes. Excellent assets, well that's yet to be seen. If they're as good as mgt say they are then we'll re-rate. But that depends on strong financials that we're yet to see for Gain, which makes up 90% of production.
- Huge and potentially massively valuable assets - Potential is the operative word for all assets. Until proven we need to rely on mgt. These guys are notoriously unreliable in their claims. Looking back on promises that haven't been delivered it's not hard to see why our sp isn't much higher. Trust is the issue here.
- All assets in politically stable countries (Canada and UK) - Correct. This is a real +ve except we sell in Canada at a discount to WTI, which isn't as good as selling at Brent prices.
- North Sea assets have been de-risked to an extent by oil finds - No. If you look back at what mgt said about Liberator they got it quite wrong in their assessment of the assets, and then missed their drill targets twice. Serenity appears to be a good asset but it does require at least two more drills to support mgt assertions. See above point on what mgt have said and what has turned out to be reality.
- Canada assets are already producing. Yes. This is very good, but only if POO stays above $45.
- All assets are either at the beginning of life or able to be optimised - Most are long life or large exploration potential so yes a strong +ve here.
- Dividend's promised - Again a promise from mgt they're yet to deliver.
- US$94mm tax losses to utilise - Very strong +ve, but again only if you're making a profit.
- Broker notes at 10.7p and 17.7p current share price 5p !!! - Brokers can take their notes and shove them up their @ass. They're a bunch of investment charlatans.
So why am I invested here? Because the upside is 100-200% if mgt can deliver a f/o on decent terms and even a modest profit from their producing assets at $45 WTI. With POO moving to $50 and the drilling of Serenity then I can see us in the mid to high teens. Serenity hitting 100m+ recoverable and we'll be 20p+. This would be less than 6 months from now if they can sort the f/o this month (as promised).
As for adding Canadian assets, I don't want to see this happen anytime soon. It would mean more dilution, and these f@ckers have certainly diluted their PIs enough in recent times. They have more than enough production and upside in current assets and North Sea. Higher sp means easier to raise cash in future so they should focus on sp accretive