RE: Hurricane Energy9 Jun 2018 09:43
Wellwell
Hence the importance of an IFD strategy as a Plan B. However, the prospect of multiple billion barrels in a relatively legal friendly jurisdiction compared to Saudi, Russia and parts of South America (just look at Venezuela) is a real attraction.
The geology will out, if the field behaves/performs and proves up the nature of the ridge then multiple partners acting as consortia on each of GLA and GWA is not out of the question.
The outlay across 4 partners for 50% of each field isn't enormous. The FFD will come from free cash/debt secured to a JV it is the upfront payment that the model mainly has to support.
So let's presume $5 a barrel for P2 and each field is 3bn barrels and HUR retains a one third interest in each with carry. That would be $2.5bn per partner which they would get back as a nominal cash sum within 7 years and the rest is return on equity.
Exploration can cost more than $5 a barrel and.not necessarily find fields with the economy of scale potential these have.