RE: Bookwatch.....28 Jul 2025 15:48
Reminder for the new investors in here:
This was AndyPaps' post from earlier, which is useful:
A summary of my detailed 14:36 post from Saturday 25th July which factored in all valuation drivers: gas price, resource size, PSC terms, capex/opex, taxation, risk discounting for 2C resources, and appropriate financial discounting. Read that post if you want the reasoning behind my figures.
1. Gross Resource and Revenue Estimates
• Total recoverable 2C resource (gross): 376 Bcf
• Empyrean’s 8.5% share: 31.96 Bcf
• Assumed gas price: US$11.95/MMBtu (based on June 25 ICP average)
• Gross field revenue: US$4.49 billion
• Empyrean's pre-PSC revenue share: US$382 million
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2. Production Sharing Contract (PSC) Adjustment
• Typical Indonesian PSC structure:
o Cost recovery cap: 70% of gross revenue
o Profit gas split: 65% to government, 35% to contractors
• Empyrean’s adjusted share post-PSC: 6.29% of gross = US$282 million
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3. Cost and Tax Assumptions
• Opex: US$1.00/Mcf → US$31.96 million
• CapEx (net): US$2.00/Mcf → US$63.9 million (may be conservative due to pipeline support from PLN)
• Total project costs: US$95.9 million
• Net revenue post-costs: US$282m – US$95.9m = US$186.1 million
• Indonesian tax (22%): US$40.9 million
• Net after-tax cashflow: US$145.2 million
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4. Risk Adjustment
• Contingent resource status (2C) with GSA signed, pre-FID
• Industry-standard risk factor for this stage: 85%
• Risk-adjusted value: US$123.4 million
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5. Discounting to Present Value
• Production window: 2027–2036 (10 years; GSA to Jan 2037)
• Annual average cash flow: US$12.34 million
• Discount rate (pre-FID SE Asia standard): 11%
• Net Present Value (NPV): US$80.67 million
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6. Valuation Per Share
• GBP conversion (rate: 1.343): £60.06 million
• Shares in issue (post-raise): 5,719,672,441
• Value per share: 1.05p
• Current share price (as of Friday): 0.125p
• Implied upside: 8.4x
In my view this is what a buyer will pay now based on a Jan 2027 production date.