RE: Co-incidence?16 Feb 2021 08:28
QC,
I beg to differ, I think its an excellent comparison, don't forget SQZ are operators, Enquest are not. As operators SQZ will benefit from our significant development potential of fields around Bruce, eg Eigg (recoverable ~130 mmboe) and licence area P2506 too, plus other future throughput. This will drive down our Opex, much, much further imo in addition to SQZ already outlined plans. As non-operator the unit cost is not within Enquests control either, so may well increase. Yes $5boe unit is ultra low, so not much room for improvement ... not been able to drill down on this cost as yet to quantify it fully and am unable to find another player with unit costs so low either..... hummm !!
That aside, you have not taken our much higher ( x3 ), 2P's and production into account.
On the flip-side, any acquisition worth its salt on your reckoning would be out of SQZ reach using Enquest's benchmark.
All that aside, Enquest paid $18/barrel for this NS acquisition, so within the historic benchmark of past NS assets sales, circa $15/barrel. On Enquest price paid/barrel, SQZ would be worth and estimated $900m
So, yes, Paul, I think it's just as comparable.
aimo