RE: Quiet times8 Jul 2019 14:43
Can only be great news for PMG
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On 4 June 2019, the Oil and Gas Authority offered for award 37 licence areas over 141 blocks or part-blocks to 30 companies in the 31st Offshore Licensing Round.
These successful awards act as a strong platform for future exploration and production in frontier areas of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) in the Faroe-Shetland Basin, Moray Firth, East Irish Sea, East Shetland Platform, Mid North Sea High and English Channel.
A number of proposed new work programmes have been secured in this round, including new shoot seismic acquisition, with two licences progressing straight to field development planning (second term licences).
Overall, the awards have been offered to a broad spectrum of companies; with super-majors expanding their footprint and new entrant companies investing for the first time.
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In effect, these three assets back up £33m of Parkmead’s £52m market
capitalisation, meaning that the company’s exploration activities across 30
licences in the North Sea, any one of which has potential to create substantial
investment upside for shareholders, are in the price for just £19m. The most
valuable are three licences in the Moray Firth that contain the Perth and Dolphin
fields.
Bearing this in mind, I can reveal that a detailed engineering study carried out by
Nexen Petroleum, a subsidiary of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation
(CNOOC), has confirmed the technical feasibility of a potential subsea tie-back of
Parkmead’s Greater Perth Area (GPA) project to the Nexen-operated Scott
platform and associated facilities in the UK Central North Sea. Parkmead has now
entered into commercial discussions with the Scott field partners to explore terms
for a tie-back of GPA to Scott. A tie-back has the potential to transform the GPA
project both commercially and economically, by dramatically reducing the capital
expenditure required to bring the GPA project onstream and by lowering the
operating costs thereafter.