RE: Future18 Dec 2023 13:25
Key to success for every oil producer, is the simple need to produce oil.
This is after all a simple fracking play, in the middle of a safe jurisdiction (Wyoming) where oil is found in abundance.
COPL did not find this oil, we took over the company ATOMIC when poo was at a minus figure. They were on their bottom, further deeper pain was being endured by their smaller partner CUDA... (Note;- the oil was originally discovered decades ago by Mobil Oil) a small WI was and still is held by CNOOC
In Jan 2021, 1000mcf per day was being injected, giving oil production of 40k for the month.
Over the next 4 to 5 months, injection increased steeply to 8mcf. August 2021 produced 62.5k bls of oil.
Since July 2021, rates of injections have reduced constantly, until the low point of July 2023, where they were at 2.5mcf.
Overlay the dates COPL acquired both Atomic and Cuda (and the confidential well) and you get an interesting picture.
Scroll forward to now;- New GGS now capable of coping with sustained higher pressures. More NGL's going in, no flaring of produced gasses, enough OPEX to sustain this level and increase beyond 8mcf per day.
All sales are now unhedged.
Now unless all that oil has just drained away somewhere, we should see increases in oil on a par with the rate of NGLs going in.
The new GGS involves some new top side infrastructure, together with miles of sub surface steel pipe, that replaced the inadequate HDPE pipe work.
This is what I am interested in, JV was always Icing on the cake.