RE: 400 Million Barrels !8 Mar 2019 08:57
Very difficult to make these kinds of guesstimates, many factors and permutations involved, not least that there are 4 partners on this project and we don't know what the recoverable figure will be. At this stage, it could be anywhere between 0 and 400m+.
A potential buyer may want the whole discovery (assuming it ends up as that) and buy the stakes from all 4 partners. Anyone of those partners may be willing to take a lowball offer which then dictates the ceiling price for the others. Or at the other end of the scale, anyone of the partners could dig their heals in and hold out for an unrealistically high offer, which could scupper the deal for everyone.
Or a potential buyer may just want part of it, in which case they have got 4 options on who to approach for a stake. Having the largest stake, we may be in the best position in that scenario.