Although decommissioning activity is increasing (esp. in UK) multi-operator campaigns remain scarce. This despite the fact that campaigning P&A is widely seen as the key driver of cost-savings... DecomPartners has developed a new innovative financing solution that address the problems that Operators face, when contemplating to join decom-campaigns with their competition!
2. • Lower-cost, late-life operators pursuing MER
enabled by NOC / IOC decom funding (which is a
good thing…)
• Current decom programs mostly:
‒ By larger, well-funded operators
‒ Addressing specific concerns
• Multi-operator programs to achieve scale
(where there isn’t) are scarce
• Beating “Reverse drilling” culture requires
repeated practice and perhaps a divorce…
Starting the learning curve… …but with enough scale to achieve targets?
SOURCE: DecomPartners
3. • Financial products for
decom-funding
• Solutions for ARO*-
related write-offs
• Similar technical
compliance across Basin
• Effective tax regimes for
decom transfers (and
deferral does not count)
• Triggers for innovation
• New decom-specific
technologies
• Lean, right-specced
scope and execution
• Complete integration
into asset life-cycle
✓ ~
• Campaign-models for scale and better risk / reward allocation
• Transparent, deep and competitive supplier markets
• Confidentiality of proprietary financial data
* Asset Retirement Obligation
SOURCE: DecomPartners
4. • Operators secure funding with:
‒ Fixed price for ABEX
‒ Profiling of cash-flows
‒ Mitigation of write-offs**
* Asset Retirement Obligation
** Subject to Operators’ independent auditor approval
SOURCE: DecomPartners
• Investors access growth-market with:
‒ Learning curve and campaign benefits
‒ High-yield return profile
‒ New asset class characteristics
Operator
funding:
• ARO*
• Tailored
instruments
Investors’
risked capital
5. • Confidentiality
• Normalization of risk and
costs across projects
• Required disclosures (e.g.,ARO*)
• Differences in well-integrity, P&A
requirements and data availability
Innovative
financing:
• Tender
process
• Risked
capital
Delivery
partnership
• P&A capability
• Non-E&P capital project
practices
• Technical compliance and risk
management
• Fit-for-purpose setup without
“reverse engineering” approach
• Price certainty
underwritten by Equity
• “Put money where mouth is”
• Performance drive through equity-
return requirements
* Asset Retirement Obligation
SOURCE: DecomPartners
6. $
• Partnership to deliver
decom best-practices
• Campaign “prime
contractor” of choice
• Tax-optimized SPV’s for
transfer to duty-holders
• Alliance with global insurer
• Influencer of Regulator &
Treasury agendas
• Establishment of new
asset class
• Specialist “latest-life” operators, served by
dedicated suppliers
• Multi-operator campaigns as the norm
• Regulators drive MER and orchestrate Decom
through tax-optimization and cross-border
regulation
• Equity investing in decommissioning
supported by tailored Insurance products
• Decom as an “inversely-correlated” E&P
asset class – a high-growth export-product!
SOURCE: DecomPartners