12 September 2018
FINANCIAL REPORT FOR YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2018
CONTENTS
Chairman's Review
Business Review
Permit Schedule
Directors' Report
Remuneration Report - Audited
Lead Auditor's Independence Declaration
Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss and Other Comprehensive Income
Consolidated Statement of Financial Position
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
Directors' Declaration
Independent Audit Report
Shareholder Information
Definitions
Corporate Information
CHAIRMANS REVIEW
Dear Shareholder,
The 2018 financial year has seen the Company deliver on essential outcomes, as well as undertake some difficult challenges.
The Company gained a new cornerstone shareholder, an institutional investor, Republic Investment Management Pte Ltd (Republic). In December 2017 Republic agreed to participate in the January 2018 share placement, taking up an initial 7% interest in Oilex, which increased to just over 12% in May 2018 when Republic subscribed for an additional 112,500,000 shares. The subscription by Republic is seen by the Board as a vote of faith in the direction of the Company. Republic also participated in the debt and equity fundraisings in July and September 2018.
The Company has a significant multi TCF gas resource at the Cambay PSC in Gujarat state in India in the EP-IV tight siltstones that requires drilling and stimulation optimisation technologies to achieve commercial flow rates. In August 2017, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes GE and ODSI completed a technical evaluation of the optimal well and stimulation design required to achieve potential commercial flow rates in the EP-IV reservoir in Cambay Basin.
Schlumberger and Baker Hughes were appointed to complete the core analysis and to report on the reasons for under-performance of past wells. The purpose of their work was to identify any substantial impediments to achieving potential commercial flow rates and to advise on the optimal well and stimulation design required to take the project forward. Notably the results from their analysis has confirmed the potential for substantially increased flow rates with the application of the appropriate stimulation technology suite.
At the start of April 2018, the Company received notification that the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas had approved the proposal for the grant of ten year extensions to both the Cambay and Bhandut PSC. The applications were lodged in September 2017 ahead of the PSC expiry dates of September 2019. Securing this extension was important to regaining momentum in the Company's key asset at Cambay.
In May 2018 the Company, having exhausted all other avenues to recover outstanding Cambay cash calls, issued an Event of Default Notice to GSPC in the amount of equivalent US$3,054,832. This notice, issued pursuant to the Joint Operating Agreement (JOA), is a consequence of GSPC's ongoing failure to pay its participating interest share of the expenses of the Cambay PSC.
In July 2018, after year end the Company formally requested the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons and the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas to affect the transfer of GSPC's participating interest in the Cambay PSC to Oilex. Subsequently, GSPC served notice of an ex-parte Order from the High Court of Gujarat directing the Company not to take any coercive steps against GSPC until a hearing on 4 September 2018, with the High Court then adjourning this matter to 19 September 2018.
Whilst the Company is confident in its position, it may take some time to have this matter resolved and for the Company to consider other remedial strategies.
2018 also saw some governance changes to the Board, with the non-executive Board now consisting entirely of independent directors.
The Company is continuing to actively pursue new opportunities in order to create value by diversifying the Company's project portfolio.
Finally, on behalf of the Board, I wish to thank our staff, contractors, local communities, shareholders and stakeholders for their ongoing support.
Mr B Lingo
Chairman
12 September 2018
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