RE: Stong day ahead6 Mar 2025 12:45
Affc - perhaps but if the additional shares in issue are in sticky hands as AK has said strategic investors have bought them than one would imagine, it needs to get liquidity zones on the chart for liquidity.
There are plenty of price catalyst due and I imagine AK would looking to get as some good news out ahead of this years AGM so I think we may end up using the Blacksea facility quite quickly and strike another smaller deal which probably adds circa 10,000 bopd or so of production. Probably after SIPEC closes in a the weeks.
With us giving strategic investors mates rates entry and coupled with already having secured the Blacksea facility tells me that it's if not when they announce it to the market.
All the brokers are currently valuing Savannah between 50-60p if we add another acquisition which closes like SIPEC which has received all regulatory approvals. than I see them revising there targets to 80p plus, depending on the size of deal.
Therefore the current price is attractive also this doesnt factor the progress due in H2 with Nigeria and Niger.
Another reason why i believe an acquisition will be done in short order is because the repayments start from Feb 2028, so Savannah would want to acquire as early as possible in the 3 year window to have the benefit of cashflows before having to start repaying the debt on the asset. For this reason I also believe they will want to execute quite quickly.
Savannah Energy Oil & Gas Limited (the "Borrower"), a subsidiary of the Company established to acquire interests in upstream oil and gas assets, has signed a US$200 million debt facility with energy-focused investment company Blacksea (the "Facility")5.
The Facility is available to the Borrower to support potential future acquisitions of oil and gas assets and has a tenor of up to five years with quarterly repayments commencing in February 2028. The Facility is secured on the assets of the Borrower together with any new assets acquired using funds drawn under the Facility. It is a condition of utilisation of the Facility that Savannah and the lender and/or an affiliate of the lender enter into an offtake contract in respect of the production associated with the assets being acquired. The loan bears interest at SOFR11 + 7%.