Beetaloo mention13 Nov 2019 19:30
excerpt - note = UBS's new energy analyst Tom Allen
'Despite market perceptions of dwindling growth for APA in Australia, Mr Allen has identified a range of potential new pipeline opportunities in the next five years that could add more than $1.2 billion to APA's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation. The biggest of these is a potential pipeline from the emerging unconventional gas province in the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin to the Moomba gas processing site in South Australia's north.
Mr Allen is bullish about the prospects for the Beetaloo, a factor that also underpins his buy rating on Origin Energy, which leads an exploration venture that has recently resumed exploration drilling there.
The Beetaloo venture is a reason Origin is UBS's preferred pick in the utilities sector, despite AGL Energy benefiting more from high wholesale power prices. Mr Allen noted prices were remaining higher than expected and said UBS did not expect Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor's end-2021 target for wholesale power prices of $70 a megawatt-hour would be reached based on current policy settings and market dynamics. He said that while increased renewable energy was putting downward pressure on prices, grid constraints were likely to delay the push to $70/MWh until 2022.'
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https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/apa-seen-closing-in-on-us-deal-as-briefings-postponed-20191113-p53a75