RE: The advantage to UJO3 May 2022 17:48
Before you further betray your lack of knowledge about oil and gas production and company accounts.
“A wasting asset is a type of asset whose useful life is limited, and its value decreases over time, examples of which include fixed assets like vehicles, plant, property, and equipment or financial instruments like options.”
It matters not how long the licence is, the field will decline as reserves are produced and so the asset has to be written off in line with this. Aka DD&A.
Providing and Maintaining a dividend requires a pipeline of projects to offset the natural decline of any oil or gas field. This requires continuing capital investment to add to the reserve base to maintain the dividend. One producing asset is not the basis for a reliable or even growing dividend other than one off special dividends. Any serious investor will see that, and the expected rush of institutions rushing to buy it for the dividend is, at best, unlikely. This is Business 101 stuff, this is a trader and punters share and will remain so fit a while yet. Typing VERY confident in commerciality at WN makes no difference as clearly you neither understand the subsurface nor the technical aspects of oil and gas… it’s just hot air.