RE: Price diversion4 Jul 2024 20:09
OilCountry99
Well there are very good reasons.
1. Falcon has never operated in Australia, not for one second. There is no longer a prospect of operatorship due primarily to the company's track record. Others here will talk about the checkerboard...Falcon already took the bait on that once.
2. Falcon has ceaselessly farmed down and shows no sign of stopping. In the most recent instance the CEO said they didn't need to raise money, diluted themselves down to a 5% GOR on the 50,000 acres that most likely are the location of up to 250 wells and the build well beyond 100 mmcf/d and to 1 bcf/d. This is five years or more Falcon cannot materially participate in the development of the basin.
3. The CEO has an exemplary reputation for sitting on his ass and taking a huge paycheck. He has consistently farmed down interest and has not raised money with the intent of operating in 10 years or more.
4. The beneficiaries of this stupendous piece of management are in the driver's seat, have experienced oil and gas management, investment and the intention to make a business out of this basin. Meanwhile Falcon has only demonstrated an interest on squatting until someone makes them rich.
5. Bryan Sheffield is the fox in the henhouse who is privy to all of falcon's internal workings and is slowly chipping further value out of falcon beyond that mentioned above. He is an experienced builder and is expected to gut Falcon at the lowest possible price. At this point, and given the last fundraise, the CEO is complicit in this and not meeting any form of fiduciary duty.
For further context, Empire holds a laughably tiny area of legitimately prospective acreage and is vastly outrunning Falcon's position in portions of the truly prospective statement. A damning statement on the affairs of Falcon.
Finally, the investor base, at least in part has bought the story and isn't holding the CEO to the task at hand. And he loves that