RE: Hitman. Future CAPEX17 Mar 2019 18:24
Work on these figures as it's from the horses mouth !!
Opex and capex spend of c$600m and c$275m, respectively in 2019!!
Brent pricing, but Kraken gets a c$5/bbl discount (due to being heavy oil). We have given Kraken gross production volume guidance of 30-35kboed (so net is 70.5% of this)
- Sales volumes will be slightly less than production due to entitlement in Malaysia being some 70% of our working interest production. You would have to make an assumption in Malaysia production volumes to make this adjustment.
In terms of uses of the FCF post capex, we have the following:
Bond interest is 7% on total bonds of c$1bn. At current prices, we expect to only pay cash in Feb/April (and not Aug/Oct). On this basis, cash will be half the total annual interest with the rest PIK. If prices average $65/bbl or above then all is cash, which increases the company’s “breakeven” price slightly.
Bank interest is 4.75% plus LIBOR, so around 7% and our base credit facility of $785m is fully drawn.
The Kraken Finance Lease is $115
You would need to make a calculation for the cash payments to BP under both the 25% vendor loan and the 75% vendor loan (these are not part of net debt as they are payments contingent on the field’s cash flow). We have said that the 75% loan gets paid in roughly equal instalments over 5 years covering both interest and principal. The principal is c$100m and interest is 7.5%, so you need to apply this interest to the principal in a compound basis for 5 years and then divide by 5 to get the rough annual payment. For the 25% interest vendor loan (which was c$85m originally, c$60m at HY18 per our financial statements), this should be paid off this year.
These are the main draws on free cash in 2019 prior to making any repayments of debt (which are mainly the bank amortisation of $205m, Mercuria prepay that will finish in April and Kraken financing from Oz Management being the main ones). Of course, these repayments don’t change net debt as we either have the cash and higher gross debt, or gross debt is lowered through repayments.