SeaEnergy - The Offshore Wind Development Company
The only listed pure play offshore wind energy company in the UK


SeaEnergy PLC (formerly Ramco Energy plc), a Scottish public limited company, and its subsidiaries and associates form an energy group, headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland.

In September 2009 the Board announced the intention to focus the Group entirely on renewable energy, specifically offshore wind. This decision was ratified by shareholders at a General Meeting to change the name of the Company to SeaEnergy PLC. The Group's legacy oil & gas assets will be disposed of over time in an orderly manner designed to maximise value for SeaEnergy PLC shareholders.

The renewable energy operating subsidiary SeaEnergy Renewables Limited has secured two offshore wind farm sites in the Scottish Round and is bidding for further sites in the UK Round 3. The Scottish sites are Beatrice (circa 920MWs), in joint venture with SSE subsidiary Airtricity and Inch Cape (circa 905MWs), in joint venture with RWE subsidiary npower. In each case, SeaEnergy has a 25% interest.

UK round three bids have been made in joint venture with EDP Renewables of Portugal.

The Greater Gabbard development recently achieved transaction valuation multiples when interests in that project were sold at the consented stage and immediately prior to construction , both during 2008. Those transactions achieved prices of approximately 157,000 and 567,000 per MW, respectively and provide a recent precedent which Ramco shareholders should be aware of. If these values are applied to the 456 MW's which SeaEnergy has secured in the Scottish Round, this would imply values of approximately 72 million and 259 million, respectively for the business, should those projects develop to the consenting and construction phases.

Legacy Oil & Gas Interests

The Companys portfolio of oil and gas interests are either minority stakes or non-operated assets and it is the Boards intention to dispose of these interests in an orderly manner over time. The Board does not expect that any further significant funds will be committed to the oil and gas assets unless required, in the opinion of the Directors, to preserve their value, and therefore shareholder value, ahead of any realisation.


Mesopotamia Petroleum Company (MPC)

The Company holds a 32.67 per cent stake in an associated company, MPC, of which Stephen Remp is currently Chairman. In February 2009 MPC signed a JV agreement with IDC, the Iraqi state-owned drilling company, to create IOSCO. We announced on 8 July that IDC had ended the IOSCO JV as MPC had failed to meet a funding deadline. The MPC Board remains as committed as ever to building a presence in Iraq and since that date has been pursuing the re-instatement of the JV. The Board of MPC believe that the market opportunity for delivering shareholder value in Iraq, through the establishment of an oil service JV that is focused on drilling high productivity wells and increasing Iraqs oil production, remains highly attractive.

IDCs decision to end the JV obviously had a negative impact on MPCs fundraising process but considerable efforts are continuing to be made by MPC, which is advised by JP Morgan Cazenove, to secure the funding, conditional on the re-instatement of the JV. Discussions with potential investors and IDC are on-going.

In addition, a number of new and promising opportunities have been brought to MPC and are currently being evaluated. Reaching a satisfactory conclusion may take longer than we might hope but the Board believes it will be time well spent. Further updates will be issued as and when developments materialise.

Lansdowne Oil & Gas plc

The Company currently holds a 36.26 per cent interest in Lansdowne which is itself AIM listed. In 2007 The Company granted an option over its interest in Lansdowne to LC Capital Master Fund (LC), and any disposal of our current holding will have to be arranged in conjunction with LC and as a result no decision has been made by the Board that this interest is for sale, at present.

SOCAR arbitration

The Company is pursuing a claim against SOCAR relating to rights connected to the shallow water Gunashli Field in Azerbaijan. An arbitration hearing has been scheduled for October 2009 in Stockholm and the outcome is expected to be known before the year end.

Eagle HC Limited

Eagle is owned 100 per cent by The Company and has royalty interests in nine North Sea blocks. Whilst none of the blocks are currently producing, two have had hydrocarbon discoveries drilled on them.

Other Oil & Gas interests

The Company holds a small royalty interest onshore Bulgaria, over acreage shortly due to commence production, and an interest in acreage offshore Montenegro, which is currently the subject of a dispute with the Montenegrin authorities. It is expected that as the Bulgarian acreage moves into production and the royalty starts to generate cash flow that there will be buyers for the royalty. It is unlikely that we will find a buyer for our interests in Montenegro unless and until the dispute is successfully resolved.

mnamreh - no, again see post 181 - I will look again later - a bit busy this morning :-)

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Mnamreh - I didn't buy these in the end, but will keep watching for now - good luck with them!

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Incredibly undervalued.....just has to climb.....fair value would mean that the sp has to double almost !.

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Audited Results.

Financial Highlights:

· Disposal of the Company's interest in SeaEnergy Renewables Limited (SERL) in June 2011 resulting in gain of £32.8 million.
· Profit for the year of £25.3 million (2010: loss of £5.7 million).
· Earnings per share 37.08 pence (2010: loss per share 7.65 pence).
· Net assets at 31 December 2011 £27.6 million (2010: £1.3 million)
· Cash position at the end of 2011 of £21.9 million (2010: £0.1 million).
· Proposed return of value to shareholders of 10 pence per share (2010: nil) equating to £6.9 million.

Found this audio interview for Sea Energy it worth a watch

http://www.brrmedia.co.uk/event/97873/john-aldersey-williams-chief-executive

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Tender Offer

The Company announces that it is today publishing a circular to the shareholders of the Company (the "Circular") detailing the proposal to return surplus cash to Qualifying Shareholders by way of a proposed tender offer, pursuant to which Investec Bank plc ("Investec") will purchase, as principal, up to 19,197,442 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 27.78 per cent. of the Company's existing issued Ordinary Shares at a price of 36 pence per Ordinary Share, which represents a premium of 32.7 per cent. over the closing mid-market price of the Ordinary Shares on 5 July of 27.12 pence, being the last dealing day before the date of this announcement. Investec has been granted an option to require the Company to purchase from it such Ordinary Shares (the "Repurchase"), which, if purchased by the Company, will then be cancelled.

If the maximum number of Ordinary Shares under the Tender Offer are acquired, this will result in an amount of approximately £6.9 million being paid to Qualifying Shareholders who accept the Tender Offer, which equates to 10 pence per Ordinary Share in issue immediately prior to completion of the Tender Offer.

The authorisation of the Repurchase and, accordingly, the implementation of the Tender Offer, requires, inter alia, the approval of Shareholders. Therefore attached to the Circular is notice of General Meeting of the Company to be held at the Marcliffe at Pitfodels, North Deeside Road, Aberdeen AB15 9YA on 25 July 2012 at 10.00 a.m.

Tender Offer Update.

Not sure about this at all.....

SMALL CAPS FOCUS: Sea Energy could be a steal as oil giants take up its surveillance equipment to monitor rigs remotely

By Ian Lyall, Proactive Investors

PUBLISHED: 11:03, 16 December 2013 | UPDATED: 11:50, 16 December 2013




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/investing/article-2524508/BP-Chevron-Total-monitor-North-sea-oil-rigs-new-remote-controlled-surveillance-equipment-Sea-Energy.html

SMALL CAPS FOCUS: Sea Energy could be a steal as oil giants take up its surveillance equipment to monitor rigs remotely

By Ian Lyall, Proactive Investors

PUBLISHED: 11:03, 16 December 2013 | UPDATED: 11:50, 16 December 2013




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/investing/article-2524508/BP-Chevron-Total-monitor-North-sea-oil-rigs-new-remote-controlled-surveillance-equipment-Sea-Energy.html

SeaEnergy's Return to Scene making waves with big oil

By Ian Lyall

December 30 2013, 12:00pm
Remote access: Not only does the system allow the collation of panoramic pictures taken from numerous vantage points on board platforms, there is also the ability to attach pictures of, say, corroded joints, or damaged equipment.


A sophisticated piece of software designed for crime scene management is proving a surprise hit with the owners and operators of North Sea rigs.

Return to Scene (R2S), which collates 360-degree images used by forensic teams for court presentations, is carving out lucrative niche with big oil.

It is also proving a huge boon for AIM-listed SeaEnergy (LON:SEA), which took control of the company 15 months ago.

Among its client list are blue chip companies such as BP, Chevron and Total that want to keep tabs remotely on the state of their rigs.

Not only does the system allow the collation of panoramic pictures taken from numerous vantage points on board platforms, there is also the ability to attach pictures of, say, corroded joints, or damaged equipment.

There is a facility to annotate the picture, while the product also segues neatly with much of the technical data held on the rig.

And there is also the capacity to run a 3-D simulation of work to be carried out or new installations planned just to make sure there are no physical impediments to the work not detected on the initial two-dimensional plans.

All this has the capacity to save oil companies significant sums of money.

It obviously costs thousands to fly individuals out to the middle of the sea, and often these visitors tie up bed space that might be occupied by vital members of the crew.

It seems a small issue, but frequent inspection visits of this kind cause untold disruption to the efficient running of the operation.

However, the larger firms see R2S more as a means of boosting safety.

As a system, it is versatile and easy to use, as might be expected of software designed to be operated by technically unskilled police officers rather than the force boffin.

In total, the group has over a dozen major oil and gas customers.

In the case of BP, it is thought the R2S visual asset management facility is used on around a quarter of its North Sea rigs.

It leaves SeaEnergy with plenty of headroom to grow with BP (and presumably all its other customers) as well as winning new mandates for the product.

Not just that, there are obvious uses for the technology in other remote locations around the world.

And as senior oil workers move to other jobs, so they are introducing their new employers to the system.

While the nation’s police forces have been slower to adopt R2S, there has been one fundamental upside to developing the system for crime-fighters.

That is the data encryption, which had to be secure enough to pass muster with the Home Office; in other words it is a very secure system.

This third party validation of the integrity of R2S obviously acts as a significant tick in the box for large multi-nationals worried about the safety of sensitive data.

The success of R2S has been behind an uptick in the fortunes of SeaEnergy, which also offers a maintenance and support service for offshore wind farms.

Alongside this it has legacy assets such as a 21.48% stake in Lansdowne Oil & Gas, a 40.21% interest in Iraq focused Mesopotamia Petroleum Company and a royalty interest in a number of North Sea blocks.

However, SeaEnergy’s financial transformation is allied to the R2S acquisition.

This year the business is expected to post revenues of £5mln (up from £900,000 12 months earlier) and analysts reckon it will break even.

According to the research house Edison, SeaEnergy will post sales of £7.4mln in 2014, producing a pre-tax profit of £1.8mln. And there is no end in sight to exponential this growth.

The last published results revealed the group had cash of around £5.4mln, which is the equivalent of 9.7p a share, while its stake in Lansdowne is worth £7.7mln, or 13.8p.

This means the current share price values R2S at £4.5mln, or a little over 8p a share, if you ascribe zero worth to the rest of SeaEnergy’s businesses and assets.

However, it is not quite as simple as I describe. One must remember SeaEnergy has to hand over the second, deferred payment for R2S of £4.6mln in the first half of next year.

This is based on achieving certain profit targets by February 2014 and would require R2S to report underlying earnings (EBITDA) of at least £2.5mln.

But even based on a total price tag of £10.1mln, the acquisition multiple of four times operating profit appears modest for such a high growth business, Edison points out.