Dona Ferentes
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The interesting aspect of this deal is that Santos gets access to gas quickly, and thus can meet it's WA domestic gas reservation obligations ...STX announcement today (14/12/22) re: Walyering Gas secured sales.
- The EP447 JV has entered into a binding supply agreement for 36.5 PJ of gas to Santos-WA with target commencement from Q1/23, for a period of 5 years from the Walyering gas field in the Perth Basin; and
- The Walyering gas field development procurement program is 95% complete and construction is on schedule to allow first gas sales in Q1/23
The Walyering deal came as a surprise and Santos obviously needs the gas to maintain its share of the domestic WA market and to keep the WA government happy that its 15% reservation share was not going to leak away.
If Santos had not needed the gas ASAP it would not have struck a contract with Strike and Talon who are spending around $15 million on bringing Walyering into production.
The Santos contract makes the project bankable and the two companies will generate enough cash flow to repay interest and debt and even do more work in the area.
.... And STO can deliberate further on whether to kick on with Dorado,