RE: AGM Q&A3 Jul 2023 00:02
@yeast-is-rising
Thank you for the report, it’s good to read some news rather than the endless churn of chat about the Italian payment/non-payment.
As regards the meeting, we are so used to being basically told, in various means of coded language, that this project was being kicked into the long grass that it’s hard to grasp that this is actually moving forward, as in we may see some actual, tangible, progress this year.
The idea that Navitas can get this across the FID line by self funding is huge as this means farm in efforts and the project can now run in parallel rather than in series.
The specification of the FPSO will be crucial now, presumably the ideal scenario is finding a second hand one in decent order that can process a volume near to what SL can produce at peak whilst having storage to keep a decent volume aboard to bridge periods of weather were loading isn’t possible. Once the volume and number of wells it can handle are known then the final well planning, drilling schedule and equipment costing can come from there and therefore FID.
Basically, broadly speaking, like what every other oil company does but RKH, or their previous partners, took ten years not to do…!
This time next year the AGM could be all about FPSO arrival timing, drilling schedule or even progress and, to temper things, some disappointing news about the unexpected cost of steel tubulars (there will have to be something “disappointing”).
Who is going to care about Italy and it’s weeny couple of hundred million euros then…