doinit
1 week ago
PTHRF,,Company issuing interesting news last week
Pantheon Resources (PANR.L PTHRF P3K.F) announced that Megrez-1 is on track for drilling next quarter from a gravel pad adjacent to the Dalton highway, some three months earlier than an ice pad location and with the advantage of year-round operational activities. Per the company, it is a low cost, high impact exploration well with management estimating a high chance of success of 69% and targeting a P50 best estimate of 609 million barrels of recoverable liquids and 3.3 trillion cubic feet of gas. The well is targeting high quality conventional reservoirs analogous to the current discoveries and developments on the Alaska North slope and will be designed to maximise the data to be gathered. Depending on results, Pantheon will undertake an extended production testing operation. Success at Megrez-1 would represent a substantial increase to the independently certified gas resource of 6.7 trillion cubic feet within the Aphun project area which will improve the overall merits of Phase 1 of the proposed Alaska LNG project with the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation
doinit
2 months ago
Pantheon Resources (PANR.L PTHRF P3K.F), 88Eโs next door neighbour in Alaska, announced the results of its fundraise and retail offer, which raised gross proceeds of approximately $29 million before costs at a price of 17p per share. Funds will be applied towards data acquisition, tests of multiple horizons and, in a success case, a possible long term production test at Megrez-1, as well as further development of the company's asset portfolio and general corporate purposes. 22,380,254 new shares also will be issued to the holder of the convertible bond at the issue price pursuant to the bond prepayment of $4.9 million, which reduces the outstanding balance of the convertible bond from $24.5 million to $19.6 million. Additionally, the holder of the convertible bond supported the fundraising through participation in the placing at the issue price. The company now will be able to spud the Megrez-1 well in Q4 this year and to be able to conduct extended testing on that well in a sussess case. Megrez-1 is said to be targeting a 609 million barrel resource, adjacent to pipeline and road infrastructure and analogous to other fields on the Alaska North Slope currently under development
doinit
3 months ago
PTHRF,,PANR,,this from Oilman Jim
Pantheon Resources (PANR.L PTHRF P3K.F) announced results of the recent independent expert report by Cawley Gillespie & Associates. This completes the independent estimates for the company's aggregate resources from the Kodiak field, Ahpun western topsets and Alkaid horizon resulting in totals exceeding 1.5 billion barrels of ANS Crude and 6.5 trillion cubic feet of associated gas. As with Lee Keeling & Associates which recently updated its IER on the Alkaid horizon of the Ahpun field, CGA has evaluated the economics of the best estimate or 2C case. Based on an ANS Crude price of $80 per barrel delivered to the US West Coast, CGA estimates the net present value of the total contingent resources in the western topsets in the Ahpun field using a discount rate of 10% at $1.74 billion. Pantheon states it is targeting final investment decision at the earliest possible date subject to regulatory consents, but in any case to allow first production no later than 2028. Subsequent news was of a $3.36 million private placement to two existing long term shareholders at $0.364 per share.[color=red] The funding strategy was also addressed and the Gas Sales Precedent Agreement is said to open a potential path to funding to long term funding of post Ahpun first investment decision expenditures without further equity dilution.[/b] [/color]In the interim, the company estimates the funding up until the point of Ahpun FID is in the range $60 - $85 million. This includes US IPO preparation costs, hot-tap into the TAPS pipeline and the cost of drilling and testing the planned Megrez-1 well to assess the Ahpun East project area which the company estimates to contain a prospective resource of c. 609 million barrels of marketable liquids. The upper end of the cost range also includes the cost of drilling and testing an additional Ahpun appraisal well if required. Funding options presently under consideration include farm-out, equity, debt, hybrid and a US listing targeted for 2025. Pantheon believes a US listing is an important step into providing greater access to the US institutional investment community, and to enhance market depth and liquidity in the company's shares. I spoke with David Hobbs, Executive Chairman, last week and it sounds like he can pull this off
doinit
3 months ago
Pantheon Resources announced yesterday (11 June 2024) that Cawley Gillespie & Associatesโ Initial 2C Resource Estimate for the Ahpun Topsets amounts to 282 million barrels of recoverable liquids (gross), consisting of 54% oil and 46% natural gas liquids (โNGLsโ). Inclusive of 803.5 bcf of natural gas, the total 2C resource estimate for the Ahpun Topsets as estimated by Cawley Gillespie & Associates amounts to 416 million barrels of oil equivalent. We believe that the estimate is of interest in its own right and also because it completes the quantification of the resource estimates for Pantheon Resourcesโs core assets (Table 1). Therefore, we believe, yesterdayโs announcement sets the scene for Pantheon Resources to elaborate a comprehensive developments strategy. Likewise, with this final piece of the puzzle quantified, we are now positioned to assess and provide, in due course, a view on the comprehensive value of Pantheon Resources.