"We've drilled the 8 well (original discovery on LIB), we've drilled the 9 well, which is very close, we're drilling a few 100 metres North East of that, and we have the new seismic mapping, which tied into all those 2 well control points"
Cont'd
"and is a really good data set that's got really really clear mapping of this sand, so its very high."
Moving on to the reasoning for this #I3E A2 well. . .
"The intention always was to drill a well here that meets a qualification test for the borrowing base, and that is what the A2 well was designed to do, and so we need to drill this A2 location and prove the reservoir quality. . . and it proves up a well location"
So it was really always about quality over quantity. Hence why they are able to drill the A2 position for the RBL and don't need to drill A4 or indeed A3.
All of which is why #I3E throughout this time, cont'd to state that they had a "robust" phase 1 development.
Graham Heath on LIB Phase 1 ;
"We're still planning on delivering 2 wells concurrently, in phase 1, in year 1, and then that will be followed on by 1-2 wells the next year."
Cont'd
"So capex profile very similar, production profile (up to 20,000 bopd) and resulting cash flow profile, are all still in line with what we had expected before."
1/16
It's difficult to call this market but my view is that assuming no more operational glitches #TGR now steadily re-rates as the operations sign off the various stages to 30ktpa.
2/ Front-end valuations should depend on where graphite prices go but as Syrah demonstrated yesterday (graphite fines not large flake) orders are buoyant.
Forward orders there running at 90,000 tons which are 50% of their current yearly output. So substantial.
3/ Note also Syrah cannot produce for less than FOB C1 $543/t even at 15,000 tons per month output and that's fines.
It is clear after last night's presentation that TGR C1 costs have also risen but this is to be expected in this current market.
1/12
Here are Verde Agritech's expected sales targets for 2022 which were revised in May and offer a significant read across to #HMI and what it can achieve this year and also.
1/9 In a previous #HMI thread, I highlighted that the $600k write-down in the FY2021 accounts meant that trade debtors (so effectively trade receivables) almost doubled between YE 2020 and YE 2021.
1/18
I've been running an extensive exercise on Verde Agritech also a relatively new but expanding fertiliser producer based just c. 70km from #HMI in Minas Gervais in Brazil. The results to date are rather fascinating and certainly worthy of review.
2/ Verde is a TSX-listed producer with a current plant capacity nearly double the size of HMI (0.6Mtpy) but with a phase 2 expansion due to come online in 2023 which would take output to 2.4Mtpy.
So a much bigger operation to come and soon.
3/ Those that remember my 5th July numbers on #HMI sales prices will perhaps remember that they demonstrated a $53.20/t average sale price for 2021.
At the average achieved AUD/BRL for 2021 of 4.054, this equated to an average price of BRL216.
1/7 Based on what I have just talked about if #HMI had received all the monies from its sales in 2021 then this would have amounted to $4.52m and the business would have been profitable at the operating level in 2021.
2/ What's more, the $4.454m paid out in 2021 reflects more accurately the true costs to run the business over the course of one year.
One cannot conclude exactly how much HMI produced in 2021 because the cash receipts reflect payment dates and not when the goods were received.
3/ Inventory was fairly minimal which reflects an operation that leans towards producing to order.
However, the costs associated with administration clearly eat up the vast majority of this with the consolidated statement accounting for c. $3.85m in the period.