RE: Asset Value (in ground) $150M-$300M. Mkt Cap $25M + NO DEBT4 Feb 2026 11:06
Hamm ; I'm pretty sure that a farm out will happen, because the figures really stack up for the farmee, based on an assumption that they can drill and finish wells at something like the kind of cost that the likes of say PC can do. We must be paying a huge premium for using DQE, who anyway are an arm of PC.
Even if a farm out didn't happen, it's not a cert that another raise would be necessary - they seem to be generating free cash currently, even with only 70% of the invoices being paid. And then you have the 200 MW project, which could well be cashed in this year. That's worth about $5m to $10m even after a 50% split with Sunsteppe.
I wrote this on Saturday ;
" So based on abzzba's figures ( an AI take on typical onshore drilling and completion costs ) all we need really is the partner to drill say 30 wells at between $400k to $950k each - so $12m to $28.5m for the drilling, and then complete let's say 60% of them ( 18 wells ) for $3.96m to $9.9m, in order to produce 2,700 to 3,600 bpd ( 150 - 200 bpd) So a total cost to them of around $15.96 m to $38.4m for 18 completed wells. Those figures include the cash spent on non productive drills.
Maybe the actual total cost for drilling 30 wells and putting into 18 into production would be somewhere between those two figures @ around $27m ?
@ 150 bpd x 18 wells = 2,700 bpd @ say 360 days comes to 972k barrels per annum, and 19.44m barrels over 20 years. Then @ say $50 per barrel ( post refinery pricing ) and after deductions, that leaves $972m to be shared between the two parties over 20 years.
Or @ 200 bod x 18 wells = 3,600 bpd, which based on 360 days per year comes to 1.296m barrels per annum, and 25.92m barrels over 20 years, so based on $50 per barrel post refinery, it comes to $1.296 billion to be shared between the two parties over 20 years. "