Senex Energy Limited
| Public | |
| Traded as | ASX: SXY |
| Industry | Energy |
| Founded | 15 August 1984 |
| Headquarters | Level 14, 144 Edward Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
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Key people
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Mr Ian Davies, Managing Director and CEO |
| Products |
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| Revenue | A$70.4 million (2011/12) |
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Number of employees
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~150 (2013) |
| Website | www |
Senex Energy Limited (Senex) is an Australian energy company that was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in 1984. The name is not an acronym, but refers to the Latin word Senex.
Senex owns producing oil assets in Australia's Cooper Basin and operates exploration permits covering more than 70,000 square kilometres in South Australia and Queensland.
Senex operates more than 10 oil fields in the South Australian Cooper Basin, including Growler oil field, which was connected via pipeline to the Moomba oil processing facility in December 2012. Production for the 2012/13 financial year is expected to reach 1.2 million barrels (compared with actual production of 601,000 barrels for 2011/12). Actual oil production for the half year ended 31 December 2012 was 660,136 barrels (up 70 per cent on the previous six months).
In February 2015, Senex Energy discovered an oil pay zone at its Martlet North-1 exploration well on the western flank of the South Australian Cooper Basin.
Senex is one of a handful of exploration companies seeking to develop a commercial scale unconventional gas resource in the South Australian Cooper Basin. Unlike some of its contemporaries (including Santos and Beach Energy Limited), Senex has not partnered with a multinational energy company to share the cost of its gas exploration programs. Exploration during the 2012/13 financial year resulted in gas flows of 1.4 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) at the Kingston Rule-1 unconventional gas exploration well and 2.2 mmscfd at the Hornet-1 well (both in the southern Cooper Basin).
For the nine months to 31 March 2013, Senex announced revenue of A$104.2 million, although production for the March quarter was lower than expected due to workovers on key wells, natural decline and flooding in the Cooper Basin. The company also announced that it had cash reserves of approximately A$150 million and that all of its exploration and development programs for the 2012/13 and 2013/14 financial years were fully funded.
On 23 April 2013, Citi rated Senex as "neutral" following release of the company's quarterly report, which reported a 7% drop in production for the three months to 31 March 2013. On 15 April 2013, JP Morgan downgraded the company to "underweight" citing "a lack of visibility regarding the timeframe to realise value for its CSG and shale assets". Broker reports by JP Morgan and RBS during 2012 had previously rated Senex as "buy".
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