Consider the payments from the InterOil-Total SPA (see attachment)
However, two deductions have to be made:
- The intial payment ($401M), we already had that
- The drilling carry ($150M), this will be deducted from the total
- Ideally, one should also discount future payments, but since most of the payout will be on the certification (next year) this effect is small so I'll leave it out.
If you compare this with the OilSearch CVRs we get, it seems like a no brainer. What we get from the Total SPA is much more at every level of Tcfe count.
However, we also become 21% shareholders in OilSearch, and as such we get 21% of the proceeds from the MoU between OilSearch and Total for the 60% sale of PRL15 and 62% of the other licenses. That is, we get:
- 21% of $1.2B = $252M
- 21% of two fixed additional payments ($141.6m on 1 July 2017 and $230m at FID) = $78M
Together this is $330M and this should be added to the different payouts at different Tcfe levels from the interim certification. Properly corrected for all this, we then get (all in US$):
| Certification | SPA | CVR | Difference |
| 7.1Tcfe | 1069M | 608.2M | 460.8M |
| 9.9Tcfe | 2189M | 1470M | 719M |
| 11.8Tcfe | 2949M | 2060M | 889M |
Feel free to correct (I'm not an accountant) add and/or comment.. For instance, I'm not sure the $330M should be added to the CVR. One could argue that there is another side to that, losing another part of PRL15 and the other licenses. If you leave it out the difference becomes considerably bigger.

