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FAR Limited (ASX: FAR) has taken the Final Investment Decision (“FID”) and received final credit
approvals for an underwritten US$300 million senior secured reserve-based lending (“RBL”) facility for
the Sangomar Field Development offshore Senegal.
Final Investment Decision
Following approval of the Exploitation Authorisation by the Government of Senegal and signing of the
Host Government Agreement, the Rufisque Offshore, Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Deep
Offshore (RSSD) joint venture (JV) has now moved into the execute phase for Phase 1 of the Sangomar
Field Development. FAR, along with its JV partners, last week signed the FID statement at a formal
ceremony with His Excellency Macky Sall, the President of the Republic of Senegal and Senegal’s
Minister of Petroleum and Energies, Mouhamadou Makhtar Cisse.
Woodside, as Operator of the JV, has now issued a Full Notice to Proceed (FNTP) for the drilling and
subsea construction and installation contracts.
Agreement for a US$300 million underwritten senior loan facility
FAR is pleased to announce a binding and committed underwritten US$300 million senior secured
reserve-based lending (“RBL”) facility has been approved by Macquarie Bank Limited, BNP Paribas and
Glencore, each to the amount of US$100 million. The facility is a key part of the funding package to
develop FAR’s interest in the Sangomar oil field in Senegal.
The facility has a 7-year term (with 4-year repayment holiday) and is priced at a margin of 7.75% over
LIBOR. Undrawn facility amounts will attract a Commitment Fee of 40% of the margin. The banks’
underwriting is subject to the successful conclusion of pre-placement market soundings.
Over the coming months, FAR will conclude the documentation process for the RBL facility, select its
preferred provider of junior debt and conclude the necessary funding for the Sangomar project.
FAR will have raised over US$400 million in new capital to fund its share of phase 1 CAPEX for the
Sangomar oil development, including a A$146 million equity placement (ca. US$100 million) and Share
Purchase Plan with receipts of A$11.18 million.
The General Meeting of shareholders, held Thursday, 16 January, voted overwhelmingly in favour of
approving the share placement. The placement is due to conclude with settlement of funds scheduled
for Thursday 23 January 2020 and allotment of shares for Friday 24 January 2020.
Conversion of contingent resources to reserves
Having taken FID, FAR announces that reserves of 28MMbbls (2P net economic interest) associated
with this development, are now attributed to the Company.
The Sangomar Phase 1 development is anticipated to produce 231MMbbls of oil (2P gross) and is
planned to consist of 23 subsea wells including water injectors to provide waterflood as a mechanism
to improve recovery efficiency. The wells will be tied back to a floating production storage and
offloading facility (FPSO) for processing prior to export to market via tankers. First oil is expected early
in 2023. The FPSO is designed to allow the integration of future development phases, including
potential for gas export to shore.
The Sangomar Field was discovered in 2014 with the drilling of SNE-1. This was followed by two phases
of appraisal drilling, which included conducting several flow tests, full cores of the main reservoirs,
electrical logging and an interference test to confirm reservoir continuity across the field. This data
has been analysed and used for reservoir modelling and facilities design to confirm the commercial
producibility of the field and plan the development. A range of economic scenarios, including a variety
of oil price forecasts, have been applied to confirm the project is economically robust.
The reserves for the Sangomar Phase 1 development are 231MMbbls of oil (2P gross) of which
28MMbbls are net to FAR (refer Table 1). A further 253MMbbls of contingent resources of oil (2C
gross), of which 32MMbbls are net to FAR, are currently planned to be developed in future phases of
the Sangomar Field development. These future phases will be refined with results from the Phase 1
development.
Table 1
Sangomar Field Reserves and Resources
MMbbls, Gross (100%) MMbbls, FAR’s net
entitlement
1P 2P 3P 2P
Oil Reserves 162 231 312 28
1C 2C 3C 2C
Contingent Oil Resources 107 253 307 32
Notes on the basis for the resource estimates
• Reserves attributable to FAR are net entitlement, which takes into account the Government
share of production, so is less than the equity share.
• A range of static and dynamic reservoir models have been constructed using the information
gained from the appraisal drilling including DSTs, electrical logs, core and other data.
• These models have been used to calculate the range of possible reserves and contingent
resources, which have been estimated using probabilistic and deterministic methods.
• The contingent resources are contingent on further development drilling and installation of
additional sub-sea infrastructure, which are planned for future phases.
• FAR net working interest of 13.67% is on the assumption that Petrosen will exercise its right to
take an 18% working interest in the Production Sharing Contract.
* Refer to Cautionary Statement in this report (Page 4) relating to estimates of prospective and contingent
resources and reserves
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FAR’s Managing Director Cath Norman said, “Reaching agreement for a US$300m underwritten senior
debt facility with three international firms, Macquarie, BNP Paribas and Glencore, is further
endorsement and support for Sangomar being a tier one oil development asset.
Alongside Petrosen, the Senegalese State Oil Company, FAR is the longest standing member of the RSSD
Joint Venture and is proud to have been a part of this project from early exploration, through discovery,
appraisal and now, the exploitation of the resources in Senegal.
FAR looksforward to working with the Government and the partners to support delivery of first oil from
this world class project in early 2023 and transforming FAR from an explorer to a material producer on
the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) with peak net production of 13,670 bopd. Furthermore, FAR
remains excited by the opportunities to substantially increase field recoveries, monetise the gas
resource and grow the field’s overall resource size.
2020 is shaping up to be a busy year for FAR, with a junior underwritten debt facility due to be put in
place early in the year and the drilling of one of its highly prospective exploration opportunities in the
neighbouring Gambia to follow in the second half of 2020. In addition, the Senegal JV is preparing for
drilling in 2021, commencing with an appraisal well on the FAR or SNE North discoveries before
embarking on the development drilling for the Sangomar Field development.
Securing the debt facility combined with the overwhelming support at the General Meeting to approve
the equity placement and good uptake in the SPP concludes this chapter in closing out the US$400M in
capital to support FAR’s FID decision.
We fully appreciate the support of ourshareholders who have helped us reach this important milestone
and continue to believe that de-risking the financing component for the Sangomar project and
commencing the execute phase for development is likely to generate significant shareholder value.”
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