IFRS UPDATE AND MOVE TO SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS 5 August 2005
Introduction Oil Search already accounts under IFRS. However, it is impacted by amended standard, IFRS 3 Company has also voluntarily elected to move from Area of Interest to Successful Efforts methodology for accounting for Exploration…
IFRS 3 IFRS 3 - amended standard relating to accounting for business combinations Effective from 31 March 2004 Old standard (IAS 22) required discount resulting from acquiring assets below fair value to be taken as negative goodwill and…
Impact of IFRS 3 OSH has US57.5m of unamortised negative goodwill from merger with Orogen Minerals and purchase of Chevron Texacos PNG assets Transfer US68.9m to retained earnings (effective 1/1/04) Restate 2004 net profit by…
Move to Successful Efforts Oil Search has elected to move from Area of Interest to Successful Efforts accounting policy for E&E expenditure Why Follows Board Review of accounting policy Pre-empts expected future change in accounting…
Area of Interest vs Successful Efforts Area of Interest Area of Interest defined as individual prospecting licence or development area All exploration & evaluation (E&E) costs capitalised to area Expected Monetary Value (EMV) of…
Area of Interest vs Successful Efforts cont. Successful Efforts All E&E costs, except licence acquisition and successful well costs, are written-off in period incurred E&E costs to be written-off include seismic, new venture…
Impact of Successful Efforts Review of balance sheet as at 31/12/04 results in write- down of US230m capitalised costs US130m of oil exploration costs US80m of gas costs incl. capitalised interest, marketing US20m of exploration in…
Future impact of Successful Efforts Successful efforts will most likely result in higher pre-tax E&E write-offs than in the past, depending on exploration success rates Example: US50m annual spend on E&E US40m on drilling, balance on…
Summary Accounting policy changes should assist users of our Financial Statements, bringing them in line with domestic and global peers Changes have no impact on Oil Searchs strategy or underlying performance of our business Also, no…