The situation12 Mar 2020 13:04
There seems to be a lot of confusion about hedging and where we are/aren't profitable.
We are profitable at $27 brent. However we have decommissioning liabilities throughout the next 10+ years that are due for payment in phases. On that basis, across the next 10+ years we need $45 (on aggregate across that whole time) to pay off all opex, capex and abex (decom liabilities). Meaning that yes we are still profitable barrel for barrel now at $30s, but aren't profitable if it stayed there for over ten years. If you think brent stays sub $45 for 10+ years, that's when you've got the problem (though i'd say you're a lunatic if that's what you think)
That's before you consider that the $45 BE is also that high to pay for all the capex planned. $200m capex next year alone and as Andrew said in interview yesterday 'we don't need to spend that capex if we don't want to'. So there's so much baked into that $45 brent figure that we could just leave out if things got tough for long enough
And alllll of that is before you consider the huge wedge of cash there is to buffer any issues should we somehow stay sub $45 for ten years and keep all the current capex plans lol.
If you can't see value here, it might be time to take your head for a sh1 t