Proactive16 Jul 2020 10:24
i3 has now entered into a binding purchase and sale agreement all the petroleum and infrastructure assets of Gain Energy, a private Canadian company with operations in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
Last year, Gain produced at 11,020boepd and generated ~US$34m in field EBITDA (revenues minus royalties, opex and transportation) from 365 net wells across multiple low-decline, long-life, light oil and gas fields
On completion, the assets would add 26.4MMboe PDP and 69.4MMboe 2P reserves to i3's portfolio.
The consideration to be paid is C$80m (~US$58.8m), subject to adjustments representing acquisition metrics of approximately 1.7x 2019 field EBITDA, US$5,526/boepd, and US$0.85/boe of 2P reserves.
There are currently 242 Gain-operated wells at an average working interest of 78% and 1,633 non-operated wells at an average working interest of 11% and include 174k net developed acres and 186k net undeveloped acres of land.
As part of i3's readmission process, the Company has commissioned GLJ to update the reserves associated with the assets.
Our take: Given the recent sector correction and subsequent strengthening in commodity pricing, we are coming into a strong period of Energy M&A in our view. The acquisition of Gain represents a significant shift in strategy of i3 from a sole focus on North Sea development to include Canadian Sedimentary production. This considerably reduces the Company’s risk profile and adds material cash flows to the business.