RE: Morning all4 Apr 2019 12:57
Commencement of first 2 work-overs
Mayan's new contract operator, Attis Operating I Inc. ("Attis"), has begun preparations over the past week with the rig scheduled on site on Friday, 1 March 2019 to commence work-overs on the Morris #1 and Montsanko wells. The work-over program, fluid testing, and new pump installation at Montsanko is expected to take approximately 21 days
Taken from the RNS. "Approximately" ie some doubt about exactly how long it would take. No promise of an update after 21 days and it is silent on how long the work at Morris 1 would take. Note that although the RNS states, the first two workovers it says nothing about putting other wells on line to see if they flow. The issue at Morris 1 might be that mud from the previous work on the well got into the pump or it could be that it is complete pump failure. Hopefully it is only a pump issue and it is now happily pumping away.
I have not checked but it might be worth someone looking to see if any production figures on the seven wells has been logged at RRC.
It is worth rereading the bit about the Morris 1 lease."allowing Mayan ample time to workover the Morris #1 well without shut-in production worries and evaluate the best means to extract the most value out of the lease." So if the only consideration was working over Morris 1 then the rest of the sentence is superflous. It indicates that they think that there is more value at that lease than just putting Morris 1 back online.
The potential upside at the Morris 1 could one or more of several things: sidetrack(s), new drills, new intervals, exploiting the gas that EG reckoned was there, farming it out, promoting it into the private investor market in the US.
Another consideration on the above, is that if Mayn were after more acreage in the area, they wouldn't want to release any information that might affect the value of any potential transaction. We have seen the same thing with PQE; they have said that they wanted to pick up more acreage before the success of their technology affected the cost of any transaction.
In my view the carried forward losses and the promotes into the private investor market in the US is a big upside for Mayan and they can use those methods and tools both at ZR and at Austion. In each case they have a decent amount of acreage and so they could promote a few wells in each field.
DYOR