KLL SUSPENDED FROM 21/2/20 TO 1/6/20 to raise 61 million
The Company (KLL), with the assistance of variousthirdparty specialists, identified that theforecast capital
cost overruns at the time were driven by arange of
factors, including:
► design changes on the Project processing plant
made to accommodate performance guarantees
required by the Company’s Senior Lenders;
► design changes due to additional final product
storage and treatment to meet productintegrity
specifications;
► the Company underestimating the complexity in
applying a German based design to thedesert like
conditions prevalent in the locality of theBSOPP;
► the consequential flow on impacts of design
changes to supply and construction costs of
processing plant and site manning costs;
the actual operating bore performanceinitially
demonstrating brine extraction rates thatwere
lower than expected resulting in therequirement for
additional bores, pumps, pipelines andtrenches;
► an increase in the gas pipeline cost between the
front-end engineering design (FEED)estimate and
entering into the actual contract, due togeotechnical
risk allocation and underestimation; and
► adverse foreign exchange movements, weather
impacts (including two cyclone events) and
underestimated insurance costs.
Following identification of the forecastcapital cost
overrun and in light of the COVID-19pandemic, the
Company’s senior management team undertooka
process of reassessing the developmentstrategy and
the development budget for the Project. Theresult of
this review concluded that an additional$61 million
was required to complete the Project.
funds use total 248.5
capital cost 194.2 operating and finance: 31.4 additional and contingencies 18.2 the others: 4.7
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