RE: 19.22p Committee4 Jan 2022 12:59
HNY L3T
1. I must admit if Magnus does 15k in a good month, that's fine with me.. Even extra 2022 drilling might only keep us at this level. As of today.. I believe it's running within spec, but Enquest doesn't release monthly numbers.
2. Do I think the Malaysian court issue is linked to the delay in attaching the new riser.. perhaps yes.. IE: you not pay me, my brother in law who owns the only diving company in Malaysia won't attach it..
3. I just about recall the 2018 AGM.. I stressed the need to pay off debt and AB wasn't concerned about $2b in debt . Maybe he had a lot of confidence in the assets.. Perhaps he now feels he has better assets.. we just don't know.. but I believe if we roll forward a year and arrange a new $500m bond, our firepower for another large acquisition of say 20k/boped is on the cards. As we know, we can commit earlier and complete a year down the line. Hopefully just a straight purchase using cash reserves and overdraft facility which we know had already been arranged, so long a bond of as yet an unspecified amount is arranged.
Add in deferred tax adjustments, recent equity infusion, 2H 2021 profit and debt reduction and 30p could be here by July 2022.