There is certain truth to it that the public should know when net book value of the asset exceeds current value in use due to the higher interest rates. This discounting of Future Payments at 8.5% result in lower valuation. The interest rates changed, hence the disclosure. Nothing to do with option charter - it was known for years.

However, Greedy Gary made a spectacle out of it. He could have kept it in asset valuation rather than allowing to crash earnings. But that is Greedy Gary, he has only one concern, his free shares. Price fluctuation do not concern him.

Zonefinder, explanation is from Raymond Yapp. The O&G Analyst #1 from Singapore (before Malaysia). Grateful for Raymond to include and Mkt888 to provide link.
The analysis from superficial bankers can be skipped.

Thank you for the CIMB Raymond Yapp update, Mkt. I respect Raymond. He won the award for the best Oil and Gas Analyst. His endorsment means a lot.
Greedy Gary, on the other hand, has no credibility with me. He is a manipulator. If he impairs, I suspect he does it for a personal benefit, rather than to actually reflects true value of the asset. In any case, he succeded in creating turmoil again.
The good part is that stock will go up when he finally is kicked out.

I do NOT remember Greedy Gary showing any concerns for shareholders. He was always preoccupied with the personal gain - free or subsidized shares for himself. He never even cared to exercise basic decency. Special resolutions were made for HIS SOLE benefit, not including others in management.
And as I do not trust this greedy clown, I am not going to let him induce me to sell.
I will wait a bit.
We shall see what his scheme is all about.
Sure not about concerns for shareholders.

HUGE loss and impairment like the one during the worst days of Kraken delays.
Greedy Gary in utter deparation starts talking future projects. Only now he realizes that something needs to be done ?
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Moving forward, we continue to explore ways to enhance shareholder value including new projects and possible corporate activities.”

An interesting point, Enuest lost arbitration case and now had to deposit some RM 70 mln to file an appeal. I think Petronas is also on the hook. They owe it legally to PBJV.
Hope there is still money left over. Their appetite for investment in Malaysia may diminish. Also the ability to replace Armada Kraken with a different unit.

I wonder what the earnings will be like. My guess is: weak.

Good morning and good week everyone.
Hope we hear about new contract here this week.
Analyst should ask about those on the topic of future projections.

Personally I do NOT believe in Carbon Capture project. You can buy credits for 18 USD in Brazil. Why would you pay Bumi Armada 80 USD for same credit ...

The only benefit is good mention by Investor Bankers in their recommendations.

Welcome back to our counter grindstone.
Well, it was a slow day today.
Oil price recovered, and we are now at $82+
Target for this counter (BAB) is MYR 0.82 for me now.

On the other side ....
We have limited time for BAB price appreciation.
Every few months they come up with a new disaster.
Kraken failure, huge impairments, lost court cases, no new contract from Total for Cameia, Sterling V delays, empty green intitiative with no follow ups, etc.
Let us hope that there is no new catastrope until earnings and a few days after.
That will give us a chance to collect a small reward.
Good luck in the new chinese year to all.

Happy Chinese New Year everyone.
Let us have some enjoyment knowing the share price stabilized.
Also Brent is above 80 USD.

I know very, very well it has no bearing on Armada.
But many investors do not. And they affect the price.
I wish them happy CNY too.
🕺💃

Charter rates may or may not be based on oil price. But Armada surely is.
Oil price stabilized and even went up a bit to $78.
Armada counter stabilizes too. Soon to move up as well ?

In case you wonder why Armada is down today, Brent Crude OIl is at $77 and going down.

No problem rohank. I think we are teasing you. In any case, today's action WAS a humbling experience.
MYR 0.535 at one time.
So low considering Kraken is OK and AS V is now online.
We did not predict this.

Yes, you did. And I was arguing that you needed to check financial figures, project prospects, etc in the past. But the overall O&G market still impacts us, like a low tide. I guess not much can be done today. Until next week.
Houthis will do their work for sure.

It went down 1 sen. That is 2% or about the same % as the drop it Brent.
We need to give some time to adjust to the lower crude future.

Hope you had a good holiday. Welcome back.

Today some bad news. Brent has dramatically fallen to 78 USD.
We shall see if it affects the price.
New target is now MYR 0.78 in 90 days (based on the futures).

Yes. Good time to grab more.
The stock value just passed 200 day Moving Average.
Golden Cross is a 100% bullish indicator that many follow.

Also, Brent at 83.3 USD means that the short term target of BA is MYR 0.83.

😁

I got tired of explaining: BAB independent of Brent. A few years wasted.
Let us follow the Brent Crude Oil Price and avoid arguing about it.

Brent up to $82 so Armada should be MYR 0.82.

Logical.

I bought Armada in 2019. Shortly after Greedy Gary became the president of BA. He visited Kraken and claimed credit for the end to the debacle. Then many here were so happy that he solved the problem. Turns out it might have been worked out by the predecessor.

Greedy Gary was universally admired and a lot of hope appeared on this forum. He was to deliver new projects. Had ideas. And he signed a few memoranda, but delivered NOTHING.
That is his performance.

Only achievement of his is the size of his BA holdings. He got more shares that anyone (I consider that Ananda K is an enterprise person making money from investment, not a private working individual). Greedy Gary is now the biggest private shareholder (person who works for a salary). This guy cannot restrain himself from raking in anything in sight. Maybe he comes from a poor family and just cannot get enough. Not saying it to attack. Just trying to find the reason.

The news is only 6 hour old. What Armada could not deliver, Italians can do. It turns out that Italy boleh.

https://www.upstreamonline.com/exclusive/saipem-nears-fpso-deal-with-chinese-yard-for-6-billion-angola-project/2-1-1584346

I guess Greedy Gary is busy thinking of the free shares for himself this AGM and his mind is not focused on company business. I wonder how many millions will he award himself this time. My guess is about 8 mln shares.

55 coming soon. Then 56.
I can sell some I bought prematurely in Novermber.
Well, at least no loss then.
:-)

Niki, BA did NOT participate in Abadi in any way.
Yes, I was referring to their intention to participate in the Indonesian CCS project, and this one would be similar. I do not believe Japan has resources to handle it all. They will have to cooperate.

Chance of a CCS for Armada for this project.
I remember it and worked with many people from it when it was canceled a few years ago.
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INPEX received government approval for the revised development plan for its long-delayed Abadi liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in eastern Indonesia.

The Japanese energy company submitted the revised plan to Indonesian government authorities on 4 April 2023, incorporating a carbon capture and storage (CCS) component into the existing development plan.

The company said in a press release that the project would be the first in which CCS-related costs are eligible for recovery based on the production-sharing contract (PSC) that governs crude oil and natural gas upstream operations in Indonesia.

Approval of the revised development plan “paves the way for INPEX and its partners to fully mobilize the project as a clean project in support of the energy transition."

INPEX and its project partners plan to amend the PSC to incorporate CCS into the contractual scope of work, resume project operations, including on-site activities, and prepare for front-end engineering and design work.

Abadi is in the Masela block, 150 km offshore Saumlaki in Maluku province, Indonesia. It is estimated to hold nearly 10 Tcf of recoverable natural gas reserves.

The annual LNG production volume for the project is expected to reach 9.5 mtpa, equivalent to more than 10% of Japan’s annual LNG imports,and up to about 35,000 bbl of condensate daily. The project will also supply 150 MMcf/D of natural gas via pipeline to address local demand.

INPEX holds a 65% operating interest in Masela PSC and is the operator of the Abadi gas project. Pertamina holds a 20% operating interest, and Petronas Masela holds a 15% operating interest. The two companies officially became partners in the Abadi LNG project on 18 October 2023, following the completion of the conditions precedent under the sales and purchase agreement on the transfer of Shell’s participating interest.

I kept watching the two SQ vessels all 2023 and it was disappointing to see them sit idle. Russia has been pumping out a lot of oil and exporting it to support war effort.

It clearly indicated BA Sterling V.
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ONGC fires up oil production from flagship deep-water asset
First oil flows from the Armada Sterling V FPSO
7 January 2024 15:33 GMT UPDATED 7 January 2024 23:23 GMT

Happy New Year 2024 to all BA interested. Let's hope for a revival of the stock next year.

On no news at all is tubling like a rock.
Insiders must already know something.
It is never without a reason

Based on the suudden spike it the stock price at 9:40 am....
If insiders can be trusted.

Minor issue. But we had a dozen of them. Aggravation builds up. In the end we want result, not a new story.

Raymond Yap of CIMB is the guy. #1 rated analyst for energy. He is now more upbeat despite slightly lowering the target. Not sure why he includes Kraken debacle as a major risk. You could say this of any vessel for any company. Breakdown can occur. Otherwise I am in full agreement.

I would say that someone is carefully buying.
Carefully, but to max volume available.

This is painful.
And all those spammers will be back gloating for a few days ....

Thank you kumar.
Action today makes me think that there is no good news coming. Price getting lower and lower.
I pay attention to what is coming ... as Tim says.

I cannot understand this article. Precommissioning is done before introduction of hydrocarbons. That would be done in Singapore, not now as they claim. Kick off is usually a meeting before they start activities. So there should be months between kick off and production. Yet they say days.
Seems like AI article when correct sentences from different articles are glued into incomprehensible mess.

Buy high, sell even higher on hope of more good news.
Prive performance underwhelming.

OK. I guess it is reaction to budget. General sentiment. Today back to normal.
Fewer comment than normal on most O&G forums.

-10 sen drop ? At the same time armada is -1 sen.
What the heck happened ?

My take:
Situation at the company reverted to the same old.
It looks like it is going back to the price level from 1 year ago.
x

And now, back to the same old, same old.

Sell on team that already brought company down.

View of Armada by the Yinson investor. Of course, he thinks that Yinson is a better value proposal. Makes a few good points... Niki makes similar point that they seem unable to take up a new project.
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Bumi Armada (Malaysia) – limited financing capacity to take on new lease contract

Bumi Armada was doing well until the collapse of oil prices in 2014. The oil price crash exposed some of its customers as not being as financially sound as they seemed, and it began to record impairments on its trade receivables. Multiple project delays and terminations have resulted in an aggregate impairment of over RM5 billion since 2014. This includes approximately RM1.8 billion for the FPSO Armada Claire and RM1.6 billion for the FPSO Armada Kraken.

The FPSO Armada Claire was delivered to the Belnaves field in 2014 but did not achieve final acceptance. In 2016, Woodside terminated the contract for the FPSO, citing "performance-related issues." This may have been coincidental, but it also happened to be a time when oil prices were low and the Belnaves field was experiencing a sharp production decline. Bumi Armada challenged Woodside in court but lost the case in 2022.

The FPSO Armada Kraken was impaired due to project delays, underperformance, and low uptime availability.

In 2017, Bumi Armada suspended the operations of FPSO Armada Perdana following irregular payments for the operation and maintenance services, together with long-delayed charter by independent oil and gas operator Erin Energy Corp, which filed for bankruptcy shortly after.

In the last 6 years, it has only secured one new FPSO job, with a 30% stake. This suggests that the company may have limited design and engineering capacity, as well as financing capacity, in the near term to take on sizable jobs.

With this crude oil rally it is only a matter of time before yinson soars. Get ready.

I had this stock 1 month ago. I sold and you do not hear from me. I just do not understand why some overstay the welcome.

This means that Russia is getting a lot more money for its oil and gas. At the same time, they do not need to import as they learnt to source local products. Simple. Like China that keeps yuan low. 😊

Many thanks for a great write up, Tan.

I moved from Yinson to Armada a few years ago. You guys are lucky to stick here.
The drama of Armada - every month there is something to make you lose your sleep.
And the rating of this gem here are absolutely stunning.
I come to look and calm my nerves. Also see how a good job can be done.
All gems are expensive though.

I miss selling out a few years ago. My advice - stick to it (HODL).

Wow, price targets now close to RM4.00. Not bad.
And dividends declared.
Congratulations to long term share holders.

I just discovered this company. A buy, except for the EGM and electronics diversification plans. What came upon them. Hope it is voted down. Then I buy.