RE: (TRP)26 Jun 2023 21:00
Yes we have lost a number of small oil and gas companies to take overs or mergers in the last few years due to low share price and of course funding constraints . Same thing happened 2007 t0 2009 however 2010 things improved and by 2012 funds were back in the market . This time however we have most medium and large oil and gas companies with windfall profits due the the high oil and gas price during the last 12months, They now have a limited time to invest these profits or pay some large tax bills. It is always important for the industry as a whole to have number of smaller firms within the industry and this is recognized hence most larger companies have or are in the process of setting up funds to invest in small oil and gas companies Shell are a good example. However TRP and Namibia may well find it easy due to these windfall profit to get funding in one form or another from a large multinational the basin modelling should hopefully give a lot of answers.