RE: They need to get cracking, flow tests.22 Jul 2023 18:06
Hi dissipline, If you're talking about Borders & Southern, they don't need $1.6-$3.2 billion. They have costed a Phase 1 development to first production at their Darwin gas condensate discovery which has been verified by an independent engineering study, that their Darwin gas condensate liquid discovery of 463MMb has a development capex/opex of $630m for two production wells and one gas injection well, which will produce 25-30k bpd into an FPSO. Payback on the investment is two years at $60 a barrel and one year at $90 per barrel. The field will be self funding thereafter and can produce for 35 years with free cashflow funding further development and field production of 100k bpd with just 6 wells and two gas injectors. Call me old fashioned... but that's one hell of a field and investment.