50p Q3 spud target3 May 2024 07:29
Excellent written article incase anyone missed it;
https://spongeshare.com/2024/04/29/helium-an-increasingly-rare-commodity-with-limited-investment-options-heres-three-uk-plays/
Helix Exploration (LSE:HEX) – Market Cap £12M
Helix is a particularly exciting Helium play for a number of reasons.
The company are a relatively new entrant to the market having IPO’d this year. The company initially sought £7.5m but this was well over-subscribed to the tune of a potential £22 Million on offer, however the company stuck with the initial amount sought to minimise dilution and keep a ‘tight’ book, especially give the current market back-drop. The company has a post IPO Market Cap of around £12M.
Helix are arguably a more advanced play than Helium 1 in that their projects are in development stage (with plenty of further exploration opportunity also I must add). The Helium projects are located in Montana, USA along the ‘Montana Helium Fairway’. This is a fantastic location in terms of risk profile and locality to end consumers with a substantial un-risked prospective P50 helium resource base of 2.3bcf.
Historic drilling/testing has identified gas in all target reservoirs and the company are planning an appraisal drilling campaign for Q3/2024 on stacked reservoir targets.
Should the appraisal drilling campaign be a success, the company have plans to take the project to production building a local processing plant delivering -55,000Mcf per annum. As I mentioned earlier, Helium can sell for up to $800Mcf, although bulk supply pricing can exceed this. Helix will target sales to Tier2 distributors by-passing industrial majors to ensure best pricing for Helix.
The company estimate a timeline of just 12 months from appraisal success to first gas production. As investors that’s a huge re-rate potential in a very short timeframe!
Lastly, it’s worth mentioning the Management Team, the team is very strong with a wealth of experience within the Helium space from Chairman David Minchin to CEO, Bo Sears who lead the Mankota Project, Canada’s first Grade A helium Operation.