Premier Oil plc - Explorer & Producer
I took the opportunity the other day to spend a bit of time with Tony Durrant as a catch up and also so he could correct any errors I might have made in my recent podcast. There is little doubt that whoever you talk to that Solan has been a huge disappointment and the company are lucky to have been able to carry the passenger as long as this. The company have spent ‘far too much money on it’ and whilst the P1 well is producing 10-11/- b/d the P2 well has significant water injection problems and is doing 1-3/- b/d and the company needs to find a solution. Unfortunately there isn’t an obvious one around the corner, a frac job might be possible when the weather improves and a sidetrack well is a possibility but unlikely before April 2018. Putting in a call to Dr Trice who is nearby is a possibility but a long shot in my view.
On a much more positive note it seems that Catcher is up with, if not ahead of events and is planned to leave Singapore in late June/early July and will take around 45 days to get to the North Sea and first oil still expected in the 4th quarter. With work going better than expected the company are already talking about de-bottlenecking and the current plan for 50/- b/d could be nearer 65/- b/d if the FPSO can handle it. Also continuing to impress is Tolmount which was definitely sold too cheaply and will actually take much more investment than first envisaged, indeed one can expect a farm-down of around 20% at some stage. There is added value to Prems due to their tax losses and here one might find a potential buyer amongst the growing army of infrastructure funds who could make it work for them.
The market has taken the view that Sea Lion is on the back burner, especially with the bank debt being renegotiated at the moment. TD said that they were ‘digging their heels in’ with the banks to ensure that they had the flexibility to go ahead with both this and Tolmount but it too needs a funding package. They need to find a partner, same old, same old, but with the relationship with Argentina being re-kindled more doors should be opening all the time. Indeed it in this day of flexible financing it could be that a service company might find it interesting, after all there are 20 wells in phase one and 30 in phase two and over ten years of work for somebody. Given the falling industry costs and that at $55, margins are higher than with oil at $110 one might have expected some action here, after all developments of such size are creating vibes around the industry elsewhere. Elsewhere there are exciting possibilities in Mexico and with the Tuna project both of which are considered by the technical department to be most interesting.
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LONDON (Alliance News) - Premier Oil PLC on Wednesday said it expects to publish the long-awaited commercial terms related to its refinancing efforts "within the next few days" after securing another monthly deferral concerning its financial covenant tests.
Premier Oil has been in talks with lenders about refinancing its debt since last year. Net debt remained broadly flat in the final part of 2016 to end the year at USD2.80 billion, with available cash and credit of USD600 million.
Premier Oil had said earlier this month that commercial terms had largely been agreed but not yet finalised.
Chief Executive Tony Durrant has previously said the imminent completion of the refinancing, together with the improving commodity price environment, will enable Premier Oil to accelerate debt reduction and to progress future growth projects.
Bin investiert in PMO und denke auch das es hier noch deutlich in 2017 nach oben geht.
Freu mich das du dich hier Einbringst.
Blöd ist hier das in Deutschland leider das nicht viel gehandelt wird .-(
VG
Screenshot der heutigen Umsätze - in Düsseldorf, Stuttgart und Frankfurt wurde überhaupt nix gehandelt, an den übrigen deutschen Handelsplätzen lächerliche Summen.
Das sagt Tony Durrant dazu:
Chief executive Tony Durrant said:
The agreement of the long form term sheet with representatives of our Private Lenders marks a significant milestone for Premier.
We are grateful for our lenders’ continued support, which reflects the high quality nature of our asset base, the strong recent operating performance and our plans to deliver value for all of our stakeholders.
Ich hoffe, dass dieser Link funzt:
geht er nicht mehr.
Ich stelle einfach den Artikel rein:
Debt refinancing deal for Premier Oil
Premier Oil has wrapped up the terms of a long-awaited refinancing deal that some had hoped for last month.
The company, one of the biggest independent producers in the North Sea, was in negotiations with its lenders for over nine months to refinance its debt, which stood at $2.8bn at the end of December.
The company has revised the terms on its convertible bonds and proposed new terms for its retail bonds. Crucially, it is also pushing out some debt maturities to 2021 and beyond.
In return, lenders will get “enhanced economics and certain governance controls”. A new set of terms will be circulated around lenders by the end of this month, with new documentation due by the end of May.
(.......) Hier steht Tony's Kommentar aus #237)
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/02/03/2183845/...al-for-premier-oil/
http://www.ariva.de/oelpreis-brent_crude-kurs
Sehe das jetzt erstmal als Positives Signal
Zum Thema Frankfurt, ja Kaufen ist da kein Problem aber große mengen
zu Verkaufen schon wenn man den Kurs aus London haben will,..
ist immer alles sehr zögerlich
Oil majors are striking the right deals for the North Sea, Premier Oil’s chief executive Tony Durrant said.
The company boss spoke exclusively to Energy Voice at GE’s Annual Conference in Florence, when he said while the future of basin will be borne the shoulders of the mid-cap market, the financial brunt of abandonment should not.
Mr Durrant said: “The majors have now recognised that they’re the ones that have to provide security and probably capital for abandonment.
“It was never a logical structure to try and transfer those abandonment liabilities to less capitalised small companies.
“We’ve seen that from BP in the last week. I think we’ll see a lot more from Shell going forward, which is a logical commercial structure.
“We can now talk to the majors about who runs the operations and who makes the incremental investments going forward without somehow this lead weight of abandonment liabilities hovering over the discussions.”
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und nicht um irgendeine "kleine Öil Firma". Mach' Dich mal schlau, ja?
An international oil and gas exploration and production company
The company’s strategy is to grow shareholder value through investment and executing the development of high quality oil and gas projects. We seek to maintain the highest standards of corporate responsibility.
Well-established international operator
- International oil and gas exploration and production company
- Experienced management team with deep industry knowledge
- Production spread across four regions, diversifying risk
- Reserves and resources of around 750 mmboe as at 31 December 2015
Financial discipline and balance sheet focus
- Cash and undrawn facilities of around US$600 million (31 October 2016)
- Operating cash flow of US $810 million in 2015
- Conservative hedging policy protects cashflow
- Low cost base and commitments, with intense focus on cost and capital discipline
- Focus on maintaining access to liquidity, lowering the cost base and taking action to reduce the balance sheet debt
Growing the underlying value of the business
- Seek to maximise value from our production base which is focused around floating production systems and our Asia gas position
- Cash flows are either reinvested in high return opportunities, used to repay debt or distributed to shareholders, if appropriate
- Competitive advantages in key producing areas, for example
- UK – Around US $3.5 bn of brought forward tax losses and capital allowances
- Indonesia - very long term (2029) gas contract delivering volumes into Singapore with highly favourable price
- Vietnam – oil sold at premium to Brent
- Develop high quality projects where we are best positioned to add value and can realise superior returns
- Future exploration focused on under-explored but proven hydrocarbon basins with the potential to provide future new areas of focus
bin hier schon länger dabei bei Premier Oil, lese immer mal mit, jetzt wieder hier angemeldet zum schreiben.
Danke Palaimon für deine Arbeit hier.
Zuletzt hatte ich in den Medien mitbekommen, das viele Bohrplattformen in der Nordsee in den nächsten Jahren erneuert werden müssten, was ja mit Sicherheit die Kosten treibt, wie hoch schätz Ihr das Risiko/ die Belastungen für Premier ein?. Man hat ja auch einige E.ON Felder übernommen bzw. Beteiligungen, gibt es irgendwo Berichte über den Zustand der von Premier "betriebenen" "Bohr-Inseln" bzw. zu den anfallenden Kosten bei Nutzung dieser?
Gruß
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