Sorry, only first line of my LSE post uplifted. It should read: Wishing all posters a enjoyable holiday. I guess like Jimmy, I’m seen as a bit of a party-pooper, but like Jimmy I call it as I see it, without angles. What does 2016 hold? I think PVR management has been crass and greedy to the extent that the Barryroe boat has been missed. If it couldn’t be farmed out at over $100/bbl it’s extremely unlikely to happen at $37. Spanish Point looks promising and the operator, who bought in, is a real oil company, with a track record of success. Unfortunately, unless Cairn accelerate a well drill, 2017 or later will be too late for PVR. What’s left? I reckon a fire-sale of the company in the Spring/Summer. I think the Board know this and therefore have no incentive to cut salaries. If that was part of the so-called cost saving measures, I think they would have trumpeted it in the year end RNS. I wonder if there will enough in the kitty next year to see them all off to Brazil for the sailing, expenses paid. One or two posters are getting encouragement from the statement re a roll-over of the Melody facility. When reading anything on an AIM company, and particularly PVR, I pay close attention to the wording, and in TOR’s year end missive, it’s curious. “Melody Loan Facility • Providence has reached agreement with Melody Business Finance LLC, the controlling managing entity of Melody, on the basis for an extension, if required, of the repayment date of the Company's debt facility with Melody for a period of two years from May 22, 2016 with no material changes to the other commercial terms and conditions of the Facility • Such an extension, if sought by Providence, would be subject to internal approvals of both Melody and Providence (including fees, if any, related thereto) and the completion of facility documentation mutually acceptable to the Company and Melody†PVR hasn’t agreed a rollover, but the “basis†for a rollover. I suspect that basis is proof that a farm-in of substance has been achieved, or a placing. Otherwise no rollover. The financing is to be subject to Melody’sâ€internal approvalâ€. Extraordinary. Has he got a roll-over or not. Blue smoke and mirrors, like the Sequa deal? Folks, I hope I’m wrong in all this. If crude prices took off then things could be very different. It could be a break up of OPEC or a terror incident in Saudi Arabia, but I wouldn’t be betting on it.
Sequa: Spuddy, as I flagged up on 2 Dec.
More to the point, dangers of weblinks! Half my LSE post disappeared. Making point that Google showed links to 3 separate websites that all missreport Europa insider, Mackay, purchasing £1m shares, when in fact it was £10,000.
Sobeit, Sequa share issue (should it be successful) is specifically intended to fund Wintershall, Total and OMV contract obligations. Read the EGM notice
Spuddy, why on earth would Sequa pay E1.63 for shares that they can buy in the market £0.16? Its unlikely to do even that given that its Asian investment of over $100m rolled up looks like a dud and they have issued caveats on their ability to close out their Norwegian contracts? u
Thanks Sobeit for plagiarising my LSE post. However you failed to copy the most important bit, that Sequa gives no mention whatsoever of the PVR deal, proving that it has no legal standing.
Sequa's 2014 Accounts out today. Barryroe deal gets zero mention in the 67 pages. Have now expressed reservations on closing its Norwegian deals. Consistent if nothing else.
oops....reinstatement costs. Where real Govt negotiation will take place.
Whitegate process units will close and probably be mothballed but jetty, pipelines, storage and roadloading very valuable. Storage needed to fulfill IEA obligations. Elephant in the room is acquirer taking on humungus costs of environmental reinstatementesstate
In the Examiner article the magic words from Dept are "operation......on a commercial basis". There will be no state aid in any form given the scale of loss exposure. Crude freight savings ex Barryroe, if achievable, will not offset the inbuilt uncompetitive refining margins. Never seen a refinery statement on the suitability of the crude, which is first question in such an economic analysis.