RE: BPC’s huge short/medium term potential29 Mar 2021 18:36
Jono all cash info in previous RNS, well just watched the video and yes still all potential. So we shall see in time. Yes all upside if all goes well with Saffron, brucie bonus if anything comes from Bahamas, shocking to learn after all this time in prep for Per1 , even an extra year delay from COVID and they didn’t have the drill funding all sorted out. Such a disorganised shambles. Trying to play the games on the big money tables and it went very wrong. Still a hold for me, but if any further dilution before maybe any great news from Bahamas then I am selling as IMO release the brucie bonus before any raise! I guess a few weeks left to play out! IMO We will get our money back at some point, will it be a month, a year, or a decade!
Those Perseverance #1 costs remaining to be paid (noting that some items are being disputed or negotiated by the Company), along with the Company's anticipated but discretionary 2021 work programs in Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname (as announced by the Company on 18 March 2021), renewal of the Company's Bahamas licences, and the Company's 2021 overheads, will require a total estimated spend over the balance of 2021 and into 2022 of between $25 million and $40 million. However, the eventual actual spend will ultimately be dependent on a number of factors, many of which are at the Company's discretion - for example, the extent and timing of future development drilling at the Saffron project, which in turn is dependent on the outcome of the drilling of Saffron #2, expected to commence in mid-May 2021.
As at the beginning of March 2021, the Company had current cash and unconditionally committed cash resources of approximately $13 million, and a potential additional $14 million available under the Company's conditional convertible note facility (the drawn down of which remains subject to satisfaction of various conditions). The Company also expects, dependent on oil price and production volumes, to generate a level of surplus cash from increasing production through the course of 2021. The potential prepay facility (as announced by the Company on 18 March 2021), and any proceeds from a successful farm-out process would be in addition to these amounts.