RE: Financials21 Nov 2017 14:48
i have undertaken a quick and dirty NPV10 calc, but assumed much (hedge costs / spot prices / production declines etc etc). i like the answer but too many unknowns to be sure.
with all oilers you have to look at the enterprise value (Mcap plus debt) before doing any comparisons.
a good "rule of thumb" for north sea is c. $50K per flow bl. the extra 19Kbpd from the deal needs to be discounted down to reflect the payments to BP...in round figures call it say 11K bpd ..add in erskine and you get to 13K bpd, so on that simple metric you get to say $650M EV. given no debt that translates to about �500M EV or �500M Mcap..
big assumptions in the above, but even allowing for missed costs / cap ex etc, i make that way north of �1 a share.....
another way of looking at it is the current erskine production throws off shedloads of cash, but the single asset risk has (in my view) held back the Mcap to a very low multiple of free cash flow..that risk is now much reduced...so on that basis by itself this is a good deal...
the lack of placing is great...i am sure a few II's will want to buy into what will be a significant NS player..so they have to buy in the market..