RE: Presentation and Opinion11 Apr 2026 18:34
About SOU ,KeithOz 28/Mar/2026 ==>
Fact or Fiction?28 Mar 2026 04:03
Following the concerted troll attack on Thursday after Paul's interview, I was delighted to see a total absence of green boxes on this board yesterday. Until late evening. Out of curiosity, I opened them up to reveal misinformation that I will address.
1. How does Europa get their license extended within weeks while we are waiting years?
* Ireland offers a staged system: Licensing Options (LO) are preliminary/non-exclusive authorisations (typically up to 2 years) that give the holder the first right to apply for a full exploration licence. Frontier Exploration Licences (FEL) are a category of exploration licence for frontier/deepwater areas. FELs have a standard 15-year term, divided into phases, with work commitments.
* Europa: Holds a full Frontier Exploration Licence FEL 4/19. This is an active 15-year exploration licence. Their approval yesterday was just for the next phase, and is essentially automatic.
* Predator: Holds Licensing Option LO 16/26, awaiting conversion to a FEL. Ministerial agreement is needed for such conversion, based on stringent financial, operational and environmental criteria. This is discretionary, not automatic.
Then accusations that PG isn't telling the truth about reasons for the delays.
* Do you really think that attorneys specialising in Energy Charter Treaty cases would take on PRD's case on a no win / no fee basis without doing due diligence?
2. Our failed financial journalist friend, who has to use emojis to express what he is unable to put into words, is accusing others of fanciful valuations per TCF of natural gas. I think those valuations are too low. My assumptions:
* A conservative $8 per MCF / $8M per BCF operating profit for PRD selling for CNG/LNG
- SDX are selling their gas at $11-12 per MCF to industry.
- The SLR study used a range of undiscounted net-back values from $7.37 for industry, up to $12.19 per MCF post-tax for CNG.
- SOU price to Afriquia Gaz is lower at $8.35, since AG need to truck it an extra 120km.
* Standard Net Present Value calculation with 10% compound discount (NPV10) based on $8 per MCF post-tax net-back; gives $2M per BCF for gas to industry.
* Gas for CNG/LNG could be worth almost twice that amount, but for now I will use the conservative number.
* Once outstanding warrants & options are exercised, there will be 980.6M shares in issue.
* GBP:USD is 1.34
That gives a value of Β£1.49p per share per TCF once Reserves status is achieved β once the gas is proven recoverable, and that a fully-financed route to commerciality is in place. We await the agreement that PG has referred to, and the successful drilling and testing of MOU-6. If all in the bag, this valuation should be achieved by August 2026.
If you think this valuation is fanciful, CHAR were claiming $4M per BCF ($4 Billion per TCF) NPV10 on Loukos, and TheBold was putting $10M per BCF for Anchois