RE: Sidetrack/spudding set for mid-Oct20 Sep 2022 20:16
Herbert, I don’t take offence, my calcs below are 100% correct :)
You see, what people forget is the fact that Angus gets a cut out of the hedged flow. For example, the October hedge is set at 52.05p. So, in simple terms, if it is 300p per therm, the hedge gets 247.95 and Angus gets 52.05p per therm.
Ofcourse, there is the hedged volume, to explain this, let’s keep it simple and make the hedged volume 100 MMSCFD per month, 1.08 mil therms, using 10,800 therms per MMSCFD as used by Angus in their calculation. Let’s also say the hedge is set at 50p, as a hypothetical case to explain what is happening here in simple terms.
In this example, for Angus to meet hedge requirement for the month (i.e. 100 MMSCFD) only needs to produce 0.9 mil therms or 83.333 MMSCFD in a month to break even.
If Angus meets the hedged volume in a month, then Angus pays the hedge and takes a cut. In this example, if Angus produced exactly 100 MMSCFD (1.08 mil therms) then
The Hedge gets 1.08 x (£3-£0.5) mil = £2.7 mil
Angus gets 1.08 x £0.5 mil = £0.54 mil
The essence of it is we can produce less than the hedge (up to a certain amount, in the above hypothetical example down to 83.333 MMSCFD and make a profit (at 83.333 is break even, below is a loss) - Not many realise this.
When Angus produces exactly the same amount as the hedge amount, Angus definitely (100%) makes a profit.
When the hedge amount is exceeded the profits multiply … Happy Days.