{"id":9772,"date":"2021-01-27T20:03:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T20:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oilnewskenya.com\/?p=9772"},"modified":"2021-01-27T20:03:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T20:03:28","slug":"tullow-oil-provides-2020-performance-2021-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/tullow-oil-provides-2020-performance-2021-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Tullow Oil Provides 2020 Performance &#038; 2021 Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>2020 Performance<\/h3>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0 The impact of COVID-19 has been managed effectively across the Group with negligible impact on production.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0 Group working interest oil production averaged 74,900 bopd in 2020, in line with guidance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0 2020 full year revenue is expected to be c.$1.4 billion with a realised oil price of $50.8\/bbl, including hedge receipts of c.$0.2 billion; gross profit is expected to be c.$0.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0 Capital and decommissioning expenditure for 2020 were c.$290 million and c.$50 million respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0 Year-end net debt reduced to c.$2.4 billion (2019: $2.8 billion), as a result of $430 million free cashflow. This includes Uganda proceeds of $500 million, c.$70 million of Group redundancy payments and negative year-end working capital adjustments of c.$50 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0Pre-tax impairments and exploration write-offs are expected to be broadly in line with the $1.4 billion reported in 1H20 Results.<\/p>\n<h3>2021 Outlook<\/h3>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0 Group working interest oil production is forecast to average 60-66,000 bopd in 2021. This forecast reflects the drilling hiatus in 2020, a planned shut-down in September on Jubilee and deferred development drilling on Simba in Gabon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0 Capital expenditure is forecast to be c.$265 million, with an additional c.$100 million to be spent on decommissioning.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0 Organisational restructuring completed which is expected to deliver sustainable annual cash savings of over $125 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 \u00a0Underlying operating cash flow1 is expected to be c.$0.5 billion at $50\/bbl for the first year of Tullow\u2019s new business plan which aims to deliver c.$7 billion underlying operating cash flow over the next 10 years; 2021 pre-financing cash flow is expected to be c.$0.2 billion at $50\/bbl2<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 \u00a0In Ghana, oil production from Jubilee and TEN for the year to date is in line with expectations, supported by gas offtake from the Government of Ghana of c.125 mmscfd.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0 A new oil offloading system is being commissioned on Jubilee and is expected to be ready for a first lifting in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0 A drilling rig is being mobilised to Ghana to commence operations in the second quarter of the year and the first new production well on Jubilee is forecast to be onstream in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0 In the Non-operated portfolio, development drilling is restarting in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, whilst decommissioning activity continues in Mauritania and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0 In Kenya, following approval of the 2021 Work Programme and Budget, Tullow received an extension to its exploration licences to the end of 2021. Tullow and its Joint Venture Partners are now re-working the development project to ensure that it is robust at low oil prices and expect to submit a revised plan to the Government of Kenya later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 \u00a0In C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Tullow has reduced its onshore exploration portfolio to focus on unlocking value from the CI-520 block.<\/p>\n<h3>Production guidance<\/h3>\n<table class=\"table-responsive\" border=\"0\" width=\"99%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">Group average working interest production<\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\">FY 2020 actuals (kbopd)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\">FY 2021 guidance (kbopd)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">Ghana<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\">52.4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\">40.5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<i>Jubilee<\/i><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\">29.5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\">24.3<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<i>TEN<\/i><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\">23.0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\">16.2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">Equatorial Guinea<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\">4.8<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\">4.8<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">Gabon<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\">15.5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\">15.4<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\">2.1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\">2.3<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\"><b>Oil production<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\"><b>74.9<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"25%\">\n<p align=\"center\"><b>63.0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 Performance \u00b7\u00a0 The impact of COVID-19 has been managed effectively across the Group with negligible impact on production. \u00b7\u00a0 Group working interest oil production averaged 74,900 bopd in 2020, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/tullow-oil-provides-2020-performance-2021-outlook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7443,11,7444],"tags":[420,789,944,997,8950,1252,1535,2565],"class_list":["post-9772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eastern-africa","category-top-news","category-west-africa","tag-cote-divoire","tag-equatorial-guinea","tag-gabon","tag-ghana","tag-jubilee","tag-kenya","tag-mauritania","tag-tullow","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Tullow-Oil.jpg?fit=699%2C466&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-2xC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8716,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/tullow-oil-provides-uganda-ghana-operational-updates\/","url_meta":{"origin":9772,"position":0},"title":"Tullow Oil Provides Uganda &#038; Ghana Operational Updates","author":"","date":"July 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"OPERATIONAL UPDATE The impact of COVID-19 has been managed safely across our business with no impact on our operated production. 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