RE: Is this now expensive with oil sliding?3 Aug 2024 16:55
when you look at the 5 year share performance, the production figures, failed merger, failed securing a farm in partner, exited licences for nowt or peanuts, and compare the company against the competition rd has done a pretty **** job. what's worse is he's taken the year off. jubilee is not producing over 100k (the interims will confirm this).
i re-read the cmd and we are ahead on debt but behind on ability to pay that debt down (production). remember there was promise of $700m paid to shareholders by 2027, that looks like an impossiblity now, unless oil goes over $100. rd has been buoyed by high oil prices throughout his tenure barring covid shock. there needs to be fresh blood as there is no apparent strategy other than throw more money at jubilee well it isn't working and new seismics are too little too late. is he up for re-election in 2025 or 2026? and nobody surely is happy with him, even bondholders should be itchy due to his lack of addressing production in 4 years. stop pumping all the money into ghana they are litigating against the company ffs. he will spout creating prosperity for our host nations at the interims, how? kenya and ghana are basket cases according to the imf. how about focusing on growing the company you've had 4 years and it's gone backwards albeit with a smaller debt pile.