RE: No placings here in 4 years 3rd drill this year10 Nov 2023 11:08
Why would we sell it? AS is profitable even at low production.
EG, at 770 bopd and $80 oil, revenue is c $9.4 (including taking off the 57%) , direct costs (including depreciation, so this more or less includes reinvestment) c $7.4M. SO makes about $2M gross profit before admin costs (which we would have anyway). Our forex losses are nowhere near $2M.
If the new well is successful and we have another 10 million barrels, our share would be worth something like $44M:
22% would be 2.2M barrels. times $80 x 43% = $76M revenue.
Costs are c $5M capex drilling costs for various wells and c $12 per barrel = $32M
Gives a value of c $44M just for our share.
Easily a net present value of $16M by itself.