RE: Upgrades and Upsides...........rehash.25 Oct 2019 04:24
I dont think Gazelle was bad news only, but it could be construed as such. I would class it more as "surprising". Surprise downside in that the main target was not there, surprise upside as it confirmed that the secondary target was good, that the upper area is very much mature for oil generation (proven by NGL wet gas and a 3M net oil pay zone) and that this proves the stratigraphic trap play type of which there are a number of very big ones in Block XX.
So short term down, long term big upside - so Gazelle is not over, and its why its been cased and suspended. Proven mature NGL and oil being generated in the shale. Proven good reservoir sands in the strat pinch out. Yes Gazelle was sub-optimal location for the secondary target as its aim was the primary, but what if now...for an optimal located well on Gazelle ?
What I would say is that Mongolia is not a simple geologic area and with very limited number of wells drilled, its in its infancy. The more wells drilled, the more well data, the more geologic data the more it will progress and the easier it will be to find more oil.
How many dusters have been drilled in the North Sea - many many. Its now mature with good understanding but still you will see duster after duster drilled by the big players.
Geologically you have to test theories against data, refine the data, do it again, refine the data, do it again and over and over and success will follow.
MATD in April were still guessing - Three wells later MATD's knowledge is vastly improved - they know that Gazelle secondary strat trap play is proven. They know Heron is proven. They know primary targets at Red Deer and Gazelle are not proven. They have 3 wells of data now to reinterpret into the complete Block. This will lead to upgrades, new prospects, bigger prospects and all which will have a much higher CoS now.
I think Block XX will be the focus of 2020 now - there is potentially another 600 MMBO of recoverable oil to be discovered there - so given the impressive data they now have - you exploit that.