SP and movements28 Apr 2023 12:50
Now the date is coming ever nearer hopefully to both LP and also news of Velociraptor and with that my mind has been wondering to what will happen to SP. There is no science to this so if anyone can give me a better idea then please do so.
The SP with no LP ( but LP on its way) seems to have found its level at the moment at 5p plus. It is generally estimated that this SP will double up on news of the LP in fairly rapid order. My reckoning is possibly within the same day others think i believe by the end of that first week. That would SP to somewhere between 10 -12p.
Now the $64k question is what will the SP do next and on what news. So are my estimates and rough (very rough rule of thumb)
1) DQE news of JV agreement and number of wells to be started this year. Every well will produce differently some a lot more easily than others. Some will have problems others will find it all a breeze. We will not know these for several months possibly not till Winter sets in. Therefore im;possible to put an accurate projection for SP but a rough idea i think can be used i think. Put very simply my estimate each well announced to drilled to exploit Herron will put a 1p on the SP. The sP is not going to jump on JV news from 10-12p to 36p just because of agreement with DQE so if we announce a 10 well deal the SP could well go to around 22p ie 12p on LP plus 1p for each well announced. That means that every penny or fraction of penny that goes on SP after that but during the spud of Velociraptor is part of the hype, expectation gamble on Velociraptor coming off. The question for all of us at which point is that SP becoming silly and top slice an amount off because when the news drops of Raptor results The SP will either tank or re rate significantly. So there will be a lot of us slicing an amount off before Raptor announcements. If Raptor succeeds the SP could well go straight to 30p plus if it fails then it will drop right back before coming back up to about 22p in the example above. After this all by this time next year the SP could well be looking down on 40p.