Blocks IV and V - BG18 Aug 2018 03:28
A good day.
Yes, Snow Leopard-1 (SL-1) and Wild Horse-1 (WH-1) are on different blocks (IV and V) and success or failure at one is not relevant to the other.
What I say is remember, BG (prior to be purchased by Shell) were very hot on blocks IV and V. They saw this area of Mongolia to potentially be the last remaining big onshore oil field to be found by drilling. The BG technical team reviewed all the data (and the BG team were good) and they farmed into Blocks IV and V.
It ended when Shell purchased BG and rationalized the portfolio, eliminating Mongolia among many other countries that saw the prior BG work ended.
But that does not take away from the work BG did and how excited they were to drill into Blocks IV and V.
What is amazing with MATD is most people have forgotten that, and now you have MATD drilling with 100% ownership.
Yes, with Wildcat drilling its more likely to be a duster than an oil discovery, but the upside on any oil discovery is massive. Its high risk high reward.
SL-1 oil discovery of around 90 MMBP recoverable is worth around 60p a share. They intend to farm out, so take off 50% and you should see 30p a share.
WH-1, well, if that one strikes its worth about 300p a share..........so again halve that and target 150p a share.
Early production is planned for any oil find............they will truck across the border to China. In the event that very large discoveries are made they will then plan for investment in a pipeline, but for very quick and early production they will simply truck it over the border.
So everything is in place..............just need to get lucky and strike some oil with either SL-1 or WH-1.
And even if both of them fail, there are another 4 fully funded drills to go - the great advantage of starting a 6 well fully funded drilling campaign.........lots of back up in the event of failures.........