Courtesy of Sherlock advfn31 Jan 2018 17:47
Sherl0ck[​IMG]
30 Jan '18 - 20:03 - 74314 of 7
Some notes on things I learnt and liked from Mark�s presentation (direct quotes as indicated):
- appeared to allude that BP were engaged very early in our strategic partnership discussions in last 2 years, �we have some very, very good contacts in BP� and �from a very early stage BP has been incredibly constructive and incredibly helpful�.
- BP have lost out to some major traders in the last 10-15 yrs and they now have �a strategic intent internally to secure more off-take, particularly in West Africa�. Even though Ororo is relatively small it�s the �opportunity and the platform that gives them to build more off-take in the future�
- Add Energy drilled some of the Tanzania wells for Ophir & BG (so would be well known to Stein & Taylor)
- �Each of the companies is effectively taking some financial risk in this first well. They�ve accepted that because we�re replicating the original discovered O-1 well, it�s quite a low risk proposition...we�re simply seeking to target the reservoir that flowed to surface in the first place�
- financial partnership with REYL is �one of the most interesting aspects of the partnerships that we�ve put together.� They�re offering a new product around the concept of securitisation. Due to their high degree of confidence in our oil production and visibility of our cash flows over the next 12 months they can use securitisation to bring forward a lot of those cash flows so we can pay for the work we want to do
- via REYL we can fully fund the entire Ororo development �without having to come back and raise more equity� (highlighted this point twice)
- �we�ve got all of the permits and we�re pretty much ready to go�
- after spudding the well it�ll take about 6 weeks to get the well into production..... we want to replicate that well (O-1) as much as possible so it�s a very very low risk proposition. We will complete in the G sands and test D sands to confirm hydrocarbons are there
- 800k barrels of estimated recoverable resource in G. 5.5m in D
- �we insist that when we farm into an asset we operate.....we deliver the entire project plan. Also we require full offtake rights for the hydrocarbons...so no problems with liftings/payments...we sell to BP and BP pay us. There�s no delay between lifting and payment�
- �partnerships with world leading service providers and we�re quite comfortable that execution will be good�
- we�re very diligent on the work we do on potential farm-in partners
- Ororo is a relatively small asset.... �but it�s the opportunity to take this model, to take this platform, to take these partnerships...forward to effectively acquire more assets and