RE: RNS16 Jun 2022 17:09
There doesn’t seem to be enough of a market view on HUR on any of the usual websites so I thought I would write my own, forgive me, merely my view and no investment advice intended
(With respect to all HUR historians, I would also be interested in current views on the bigger picture). So..
Who says the HUR BOD have no plan? If they had one, they’re probably now reappraising, like many oilies, as a result of recent changes in Government Policy, not for the first time, not to mention shifting goalpost, market volatility amidst global uncertainty.
Yes, we are now cash-rich, a producer and with potential!!. The BOD may have choices. The tyranny.
But underlying all of our local speculation there is currently a bet on the future of the global market, supply/demand as China is still struggling to revitalise in the face of persistent covid19, + Western economy slowdown, maybe a recession, affecting demand and possibly an increased supply of energy on the horizon from the Americas. That has to be reflected in future POO and therefore the SP when nothing local is occurring. All the while, global EV ownership gradually increasing.
Given that we are now (or teetering) on a bear market , PI risk appetite is somewhat diminished.
Which is why, on a local level, we are all a little nervy with consequent carping and impatience (notwithstanding the bowl of history on the HUR 5year chart) that reflects, in the minds of many, upon a BOD seeking to indulge in a profitable closure that went horribly wrong.. However it could be argued that the oil market two years ago was literally negative, with portents of a huge transition away from fossil fuel. In that light, management probably came to a view that the future for HUR was bleak and further exploration/development futile.
With the massive ructions of the last couple of years, pestilence and war ongoing - a weaponised commodity war(!), we now have a completely different, if uncertain, outlook. Security foremost, local oil assets have acquired a brand new valuation and, coupled with the new levy, again attractive to larger players (also devising new plans, mind).
However, There still remains massive pressure to move away from fossil fuel to meet international agreements and respond to growing elements of the (young) electorate. (I feel obliged to think about Uranium longer term once again for, ironically(!)).
But the BOD have hedged somewhat against a possible drop in oil price (against all predictions, but still), by continuing with a $90/bbl price tag.
This would be precisely the time (while everyone is running down the BOD, the oil price, to buy. Lol.
We can see that further exploration of assets may well be in the pipe judging by today’s RNS (I mean why would you stop at P7?)
One word: ‘Opportunities’.
Risk factor is reducing daily at this price.
Very attractive buy it would seem to me and I have held and simultaneously traded HUR since
Sept 2021.