Sinner,
I'm in much the same position as you are in holding AOE MEL & a few other CSG companies. If you look at PES anything can happen. Like all these threads on CSG everyone's just guessing the out come. If AOE were to take over MEL at a premium price it probably would drop but say they picked it up at a reasonable price like AOEs 1st offer for PES then i think it would have only strengthen the company & it's SP. Long term if this is the way energy is going CGS will only continue to go up.
has anyone considered ramp up gas going to NSW and ESG prospects being a considerable threat to sending ramp up down south?
If ESG were to produce domestic gas, the LNG players access to NSW would be blocked.
Whilst there are no planned pipes/tie ins from QLD fields into the NSW, it would be a good way to deal with ramp up gas.
dukey, ramp up is explained in my comments on the KAR thread.
MEL are massively undervalued considering their mkt cap one-tenth of ESG yet they have the same reserves.
I guess it all comes down to pipelines though.
The pipe to Newcastle you mention. Is that the Hunter valley one that BG axed after TO of QGC?
-E(Me! - post no. 46 this thread) Have been looking a bit closer today at these pipelines to sort out my own lack of knowledge/confusion regarding diff proposals - it seems there are 2 main proposals:
1. The big one in the announcement below is the $850M 'Qld - hunter pipeline' - which is supposed to carry gas from Western Qld to Hunter region (Newcastle) in NSW for a gas fired power plant. This would be a 800 odd-klm pipeline!!
As such - I'm not sure how this one will impact MEL - maybe not much at all, it's too far west. But it will attract attention to CSG in NSW
2. The other MEL proposal is called the ' lions way pipeline' - to transport gas from Casino about 150klm to SE Qld (Ipswich - Brisbane - gold coast). Much shorter than the western one. Costs could be around $200Mill (just going relative to the other pipe).
At first glance the MEL pipe makes more sense to me - it seems strange to bring gas from QLD to NSW (western pipeline), when there are already plenty of largely undeveloped reserves in sub-coastal and central NSW - ESG, AGK and MEL having most of them as far as I know. I mean the gloucester basin which AGK just bought is right there!!!.... next to where they want to build a power plant.
... I don't get it??
On the other hand - if MEL can build a short pipeline to feed into SEQ - the fastest growing residential area in Oz - with the potential of also supplying the LNG plants, or swapping gas with those companies - then they will be laughing IMO.
It's all very interesting.... the main message is that CSG is not going away and still the place to be in these dodgy markets.
Think I'm gonna use my PES $$ to buy more of all the NSW coal seamers... sooner or later they will charge just like the QLDers.... probably sooner.
The CBM/CSM sector continues to fire, I read articles about BG going after VPE (which would explain the price rise) and Santos going after ESG, not sure why BOW is running so hard
Anyway MEL seems to be one of the cheapest on an EV per Reservers status (will put up a pic of the table that compares all the Aussie CSM/CBM players when I get a chance)
Just announced a placement at 40c + a rights issue at 40c so I would think perhaps 40c becomes a base
Anyway looked good for a punt
DYOR
Hey Strat, go for it mate,
Those articles are public (not mine) they are available to all via simple web search
Was just looking at MPO and how it sold its NSW Gloucester PEL 285 for $370m to AGL (MPO only had 30% interest)
PEL 285 had 2P of 180 PJ and 3P of 360 PJ
MEL has 2P of 247 PJ and 3P of 1400 PJ
Based on recent take overs and even MPO's sale I would think MEL stands a fair chance of having an offer made given its current mkt cap is $75m with $15m cash leaving an EV of $60m for those large 2P and 3P reserves
Somethings gotta give sooner or later
Well we got that follow through today. Massive volume and a very good close.
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