hey besbs,
I sat down and went over the numbers a few weeks back...
At some point the market will have to factor in future earnings...
we are still at the beginning of the ramp up stage, we still have some water to get under the bridge as we are cashflow negative, and some debt...
reserves upgrade from HZN no surprise...
this field is twice the size of Tui...
read this when you have 10mins spare...
Cash balance prediction for quarter ended 31st March 2009...
A forward snapshot in time dated 31st March 2009 off information dated at 31st 12th 2008...
info provided, estimated costs (unless I state otherwise), and figures come from the last quarterly report...
cash balance at 31st of Dec- $12.97 million
Loan Available less used amount leaves $8.485m (28.985m-20.5m)
add them up gives a balance of $21.455m available funds...
add in revenues expected for this current quarter... estimate of $7m (not including Maari)...
Revenue for 4th quarter 2008 was $7.65m and im assuming further decline of Oyong oil production...
makes attributable cash plus existing production of $28.455m dollars...
Maari,
Two wells coming onto production (should be next week)...im assuming initial production off two wells at 5000 BOPD each... so 10,000 BOPD total, 5% gives us 500 BOPD...
Maari oil fetches around Brent benchmark... less than Tapis...
a few weeks ago we were looking at Maari oil priced around $50US per barrel... so what $45 US now...
$45/.64 (exchange rate)....gives us $70 AUS barrels * 30 days left in the quarter (assuming first production 1st March) * 500 BOPD= $1.05 M
(with oil at $50 US, and 40days of production for this quarter makes that $1.56m)...
previous availble cash balance of $28.455m + $1.05m= $29.505m...
insignificant others (interest recieved 80k)...
Expenses...
estimated expenses from the quarterly ending 31st March 2009.
anticipated development costs for the current quarter of $13.058M
Exploration costs of 979k
Admin expenses (estimated) 700k
Production costs (a wild guess I wouldnt have a clue) $5m...
(last quarterly was $4.2m)...
add them up gives... $19,737,000 M expenses...
total cash on hand, available, and expected revenues less expected expenses ($29.505m-$19.737m) leaves us with $9.76million available at 31st March 2009...
what do I think...?
CUE probably wont need to raise cash but we dont know, a further delay of production (not very likely)...
The quarterly after this one will have 3 months of Maari production (not one month),
and a third well tied in during March adding 250 BOPD...
one well tie in per month adding 250 per month...(give or take)....
Also Oyong Gas production in 3rd quarter, which will add long term yearly income of 15million (and upwards (hoping)) from 3rd quarter....
Then Manaia Tie in...
Then Wortel Gas with similar revenue targets to Oyong Gas...
30-40m all up from the two gas developments per year for the long term...
Then maybe Matariki tie in...
This company is a future cash cow...
Money always gets reinvested back into the business, so we can get further projects off the ground as we chip away at the mammoth 57 Million Barrels BOE... These initial production targets are required to get to real riches...
Through Cash Maple, PNG, further exploration coming ... further appraisal...
big time PNG 5 years away...
This company will do well in a low oil priced market...
.^sc