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OTCQB: GSPE Creating Value in the Gulf of Mexico Investor Presentation August 2015 Forward-Looking Statements This presentation may contain forward-looking statements about the business, financial condition and prospects of the Company.


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Creating Value in the Gulf of Mexico

Investor Presentation

August 2015

OTCQB: GSPE

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Forward-Looking Statements

This presentation may contain forward-looking statements about the business, financial condition and prospects of the Company. Forward- looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “believes,” “projects,” “expects,” “may,” “goal,” “estimates,” “should,” “plans,” “targets,” “intends,” “could,” or “anticipates,” or the negative thereof, or other variations thereon, or comparable terminology, or by discussions of strategy or objectives. Forward-looking statements relate to anticipated or expected events, activities, and trends. Because forward-looking statements relate to matters that have not yet occurred, these statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in this presentation include, without limitation, the Company’s expectations of

  • il and oil equivalents, barrels of oil and gas resources, prospects leased, dollar amounts of value creation, undiscovered resources, drilling

success rates, resource information, superior economics, consistent value growth and other performance results. The SEC permits oil and gas companies, in their filings with the SEC to disclose only proved, probable and possible reserves, i.e. Items 1201 through 1208 of Regulation S-K (“SEC Oil and Gas Industry Disclosures”). The estimates of recoverable resources used in this presentation do not comply with the SEC Oil and Gas Industry Disclosures, nor should it be assumed that any recoverable resources will be classified as proved, probable or possible reserves consistent with the SEC Oil and Gas Industry Disclosures. Recoverable resources estimates are undiscovered, highly speculative resources estimated where geological and geophysical data suggest the potential for discovery of petroleum but where the level of proof is insufficient for a classification as reserves or contingent resources. In addition, recoverable resources have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence, absolute amount, and economic feasibility. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in forward-looking statements are reasonable, there can be no assurances that such expectations will prove to be accurate. Potential and existing shareholders are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements contained in this presentation speak only as of the date of this presentation, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to report any updates or revisions to any such statement to reflect any change in the Company’s expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based. Certain factors may cause results to differ materially from those anticipated by some of the statements made in this presentation. Please carefully review our filings with the SEC as we have identified many risk factors that impact

  • ur business plan. U.S. investors are urged to consider closely the disclosures in our Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K and other filings with the SEC, which

can be electronically accessed from our website at www.GulfSlope.com or the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/. Abbreviations: MM Million $ United States dollar B Billion RTM Reverse time migration Boe Barrel of oil equivalent GSPE GulfSlope Energy, Inc. EUR Estimated ultimate recovery SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Mcf Million cubic feet Tcf Trillion cubic feet NPV10 Net Present Value discounted at 10%

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Corporate Snapshot

GulfSlope Focus Area

Shelf Deep Water

OTCQB GSPE

Market Cap (8/12/15) $30 MM Price (8/12/15) $0.05

  • Avg. 3 Mo. Daily Volume

~331,000 Shares Outstanding 660.7 MM Insider Ownership 40% Established 2013 Focus Area Offshore Gulf of Mexico Target Primarily Shelf Miocene Seismic 2.2 MM Acres (440 Blocks) Lease Blocks 23 Portfolio 19 Drilling Prospects Prospective Resources 2+ Billion boe of net recoverable resources

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Investment Highlights

  • 2+ billion boe of net conventional recoverable resources
  • 23 blocks with 19 prospects ranging from 30-280 MMboe

Significant Oil and Natural Gas Exposure

  • Gulf of Mexico has some of the lowest breakeven costs in the E&P

industry today

  • GulfSlope’s prospects offer significant return potential in current

commodity price environment

Superior Breakeven Economics

  • Former Anadarko executive leadership
  • Proven track record of applying technology to find oil and gas
  • Specialized technical team with extensive Gulf of Mexico success

World Class Team

  • GulfSlope executive team credited for originally discovering this play
  • Strategic advantage from proprietary reprocessed seismic
  • Lease sale establishes GulfSlope’s leading acreage position

Leading the Redevelopment of the Shelf Miocene

  • Multiple exploration wells planned by the end of 2016
  • Currently focused on pre-drill operations
  • Hybrid operating model with preference to operate

Drilling Program

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  • 25 years with Anadarko, most

recently as CEO

  • Board member of ION

Geophysical

  • BS Geology, MS Geology

Ron Bain, PhD

President and COO Clint Moore VP, Corporate Secretary & CAE

  • 19 years with Anadarko
  • Formerly with Sohio and Gulf Oil
  • BS Physics, MS Physics, PhD

Physics

  • 16 years with Anadarko
  • Formerly with Diamond

Shamrock/Maxus, Murphy and ION Geophysical

  • BA Geology, BBA Finance & Econ
  • 26 years with Anadarko
  • Formerly with Marubeni Oil &

Gas

  • BBA, Petroleum Land

Management

Charles Hughes

VP, Land

Bill Lefler

Senior Staff Geologist

Richard Heaney

Senior Staff Geophysicist

  • Formerly with Texaco, Mesa, BHP

and Woodside

  • BS Geology
  • Formerly with Amoco, Sohio, BP,

Conoco, Repsol and Murphy

  • BS Physics, MS Geophysics

Seasoned industry professionals with unparalleled management and technical expertise lead by former Anadarko CEO

  • Formerly with Mobil, McMoRan,

BP, Maxus, Enron and Repsol

  • BS Physics

Alex MacKeon

Senior Staff Geophysicist

Terry Stellman

Senior Staff Geophysicist

Kevin Bain

Geophysicist

  • Formerly with Shell, Nippon and

Vanco

  • BS Geology, MS Geophysics
  • Formerly with the Institute for

Geophysics, Fermi National Accelerator Lab and Marathon

  • BS Physics, MS Geophysics, PhD

Geophysics candidate

John Malanga

VP, Chief Financial Officer

  • Former I-banker with Weisser,

Johnson & Co., Sanders Morris Harris and Jefferies & Co.

  • BS Economics, MBA Finance

John Seitz

Chairman and CEO

  • 40 years experience
  • 41 years experience
  • 22 years experience
  • 36 years experience
  • 36 years experience
  • 45 years experience
  • 40 years experience
  • 42 years experience
  • 27 years experience
  • 8 years experience

Team In Place to Execute

  • Formerly with Amoco, BP,

Endeavour and Vanco

  • BS Geology, MS Geophysics

Mike Neese

Exploration Manager

  • 37 years experience

Brady Rodgers

VP, Development & Engineering

  • Former I-banker with JP Morgan
  • Former engineer with Venoco,

Endeavour and Devon

  • BS Petroleum Eng, MS Energy

Management

  • 16 years experience
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GulfSlope management has a track record of discovering large oil and gas fields utilizing cutting edge technology, leading to significant shareholder value creation

A History of Value Creation Through Exploration

Algeria

  • 3 Billion boe discovered in early

1990s

  • New seismic tools designed for the

desert allowed reinterpretation of the area

  • Major oil companies considered

the area played-out

  • Largest discovery in 32 years

Alaska

  • 500 Million boe discovered in late

1980s

  • Deeper horizon was visible upon

further seismic analysis, which was previously untested

  • Majors considered the area

played-out

  • 3rd largest Alaska field discovered

Gulf of Mexico

  • 150 Million boe discovered in the

1990s

  • Global pioneers of sub-salt

exploration, which led to deepwater GoM, pre-salt Brazil, and others

  • Early vintage sub-salt imaging

limited potential

North Sea

  • 2.4 Tcfe discovered in mid 2000s
  • Exploration success based on

regional seismic advantage

  • Major oil companies considered

the area played-out

  • Early independent company entry

as majors started to exit

3 Bboe 500 MMboe 150 MMboe 2.4 Tcfe

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New Opportunities

Focus on Operations in 2015

  • Pre-drilling operations started for Phase 1 prospects
  • Preparing to drill as operator, which may change with partnering

Corporate Development

  • Current commodity prices and simplified capital structure provides GulfSlope with unique

acquisition opportunities

  • Capitalize on strategic advantages provided by exploration work to identify undervalued producing

assets

  • Additional prospects identified for future lease sales with regional 3D data set of 2.2 million acres

(440 blocks)

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3rd Party Resource Report

DeGolyer and MacNaughton reviewed GulfSlope’s 17 individual prospects:

  • Average size is 120 MMboe
  • Independent 3rd party evaluation
  • f prospect sizes
  • In-line with previous internal

company estimates

  • Consistent with deepwater

Miocene evaluations discovered by major oil companies

  • Prospect size range is consistent

with offset discoveries from the 1990s

100 200 300 Mean Prospect Size Million Barrels (MMboe) 17 Prospects

(1) Potentially recoverable resources. See company website for full DeGolyer and MacNaughton report and disclosures. Net of existing farm-out arrangements.

2 Billion barrels of prospective resources (1)

Existing Field Size Range

Graviton Tau Photon Tachyon Onium

5 of the 17 Prospects are Included in Phase 1 Drilling

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Phase 1 Drilling Program

Photon 59 MMboe

Tau 252 MMboe

Onium 27 MMboe Tachyon 38 MMboe

Graviton 247 MMboe

Individual Prospect Returns

Risked

  • F&D costs of $3-$10 per boe
  • Attractive returns below current oil & gas prices
  • Mean unrisked resource potential of 623 MMboe

Based on DeGolyer & MacNaughton 3rd party resource estimates (see company website) and risked at estimated 40% commercial success rate. January 21, 2015 strip pricing for oil(bbl) / gas (Mcf): 2015 – $53.92/$3.22, 2016 – $60.58/$3.48, 2017 - $65.18/$3.70, 2018 - $69.35/$3.89, 2019 - $70.74/$4.07

Phase 1 Total Value

Risked NPV10

$7.8 B $6.2 B $1.5 B

Price High Strip Low Oil (bbl) $75 1/21/15 Price $25 Gas (Mcf) $5.50 1/21/15 Price $2.50

Gas Weighted Oil Weighted 1/21/15 Strip Pricing

5 of the 17 prospects have been selected for the initial drilling campaign

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$- $25 $50 $75 $100 $125 Deepwater Miocene GulfSlope Shelf Miocene Deepwater L Tertiary Oil Sands SAGD Utica Alaska Eagle Ford Permian Bakken Duvernay Niobrara

How We Compare

New Deepwater Discoveries

  • Gulf of Mexico leads the North American market for lowest cost new oil production
  • Previous deepwater discoveries under development benefit from significant costs spent to date, but new

Deepwater Miocene fields breakeven at ~$50/boe

  • GulfSlope’s full-cycle breakeven costs of $20-$25 per boe allow drilling through commodity cycles
  • GulfSlope range in breakeven costs vary by water depth and oil vs gas mix

Breakeven defined as neutral NPV10. GulfSlope full cycle breakeven costs estimated internally based on DeGolyer and MacNaughton audited EURs.

Wood Mackenzie’s “North American Oil Plays” October 2014

Breakeven - $/bbl

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Accelerating Shelf Miocene Activity

Shell “[New seismic technology] really allowed us to look underneath the salt and get a more precise image of the subsurface and the potential exploration prospect that were there.” Apache “Discoveries on the shelf have quicker cycle times, require less capital, and provide more

  • ptions to bring oil and gas to

market” “New [seismic] techniques have lead the company to previously invisible parts of the Gulf of Mexico” “We have combined our deepwater and shelf technical teams to focus on sub-salt and

  • ther deeper exploration
  • pportunities in water depths

less than 1,000 feet, which have been relatively untested by industry. Hess Conger Field doubles reserves and returns to peak production 8 years after startup utilizing new seismic technology Noble Energy Katmai Discovery of 40-100 MMboe, 4Q’2014 Energy XXI “Today there is better definition of salt and great ability to see seismic amplitudes updip as well as hidden amplitudes underneath [salt]

  • verhangs that previously could not

be seen.” - Oct 2014 W&T Offshore Mahogany production increases 550% with benefit of drilling based on new RTM seismic Higher Return Shelf Miocene Boundary LLOG (Blackstone) 20 Blocks leased in Shelf Miocene play at the 2014 Federal Lease Sale

GulfSlope Blocks in Yellow

Greater Miocene Play Prospective Throughout the Area

Auger Tahiti K2 Atlantis Mad Dog Hickory Mahogany Conger Tanzanite

Walter-W&T Offshore-Castex Megadolon discovery Platform installed Fieldwood (Riverstone) “We are re-shooting all of our large fields [with 3D seismic] to make sure that we didn’t miss anything.”

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Exploring a Proven Petroleum System

420+ MMboe discovered in the 1990s in the Shelf Miocene sub-salt play

Conger data based on Wood Mackenzie data, other fields based on reported production to date

Enchilada >43 MMBoe Discovered - 1995 Production - 1997

GSPE Lease Blocks Previous Sub-Salt Discoveries Oil and Gas-Producing Field

Mahogany >45 MMBoe Discovered - 1993 Production - 1997 Hickory 47 MMBoe Discovered - 1998 Production - 2000 Tanzanite >30 MMBoe Discovered - 1998 Production - 1999 Conger 243 MMBoe Discovered - 1998 Production - 2000

Auger Conger Mahogany Hickory Enchilada

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Shelf Miocene Geology

GulfSlope is focused on a proven area of the Miocene where significant fields have been discovered

Lafitte Lafitte Lafitte Lafitte Lafitte Lafitte

Ultra-Deep Gas Deepwater Miocene & Lower Tertiary

10,000’ 20,000’ 30,000’ Plio-Pleistocene Super-Salt Salt Salt Miocene Lower Tertiary Miocene Deepwater Shelf GulfSlope Target Section Lafitte Hickory Mahogany Conger Tahiti Jack

Shelf Miocene

Lafitte

Katmai Discovery

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Technology has Reduced Entry Costs

Technology Evolution

  • Seismic Processing

– Advanced algorithms maximize accuracy – Processing is now faster and cheaper – Reverse Time Migration and other technologies utilized by GulfSlope and industry provide the most accurate view of sub-salt prospects

  • Seismic Capture

– 1990s: 2D and isolated 3D seismic – Today: 3D data now standard

 Maximize chance of discoveries  Improve resource estimates  Enable a small team to successfully compete

Large E&P companies no longer have singular access to the most advanced seismic processing technologies

1980s 1990s 2000 2005 2012 Kirchhoff Migration Wave Equation Migration Reverse Time Migration Scalable Processing Parallel Processing

Computing Cost Imaging Capability

Beam Migration Multi-core Processors

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10 20 30 40 50 60 2001 2004 2007 2010 2013

Applying Proven Technology in the Gulf

“The Cardamom discovery [140 Mmboe] was the result of advances in seismic imaging and extended reach drilling. The potential of Cardamom was first recognized early in the Auger development, but could not be fully assessed due to a layer of salt nearby which affected the quality of traditional seismic images. Advances in seismic imaging helped achieve significant improvements.” – Shell Oil

Shell adds 140 MMboe to 25 year old field with new seismic technology

Mahogany production up ~550% since 2011 [with new drilling] as the field continues to grow Advancement in seismic improve understanding of sub-salt targets [Mahogany] New discovery in the T-Sand in June 2013

  • Deepest production to date [19 years after

initial field discovery]

  • 370’ of net oil pay from most recent well, 108’

from the newly identified T-Sand

  • Additional pay to be developed in the newly

identified M, N, and O-Sands with future drilling

  • W&T Offshore

W&T Offshore continues to grow the initial Shelf Miocene discovery 20 years later with new seismic imaging technology

Auger Field Mahogany Field Conger Field

  • New seismic processing used to

identify undrained reserves 8 years after startup

  • Redevelopment late in life doubled

the reserves

  • Field returned to peak production

Hess doubles reserves with new seismic

Shell Oil

Daily Production

Gas Oil Mboe/d

Advanced seismic required to fully develop Mahogany Advanced seismic required to fully develop Mahogany

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Why We Like the Shelf: Proven Economics

Based January 21, 2015 strip pricing for oil(bbl) / gas (Mcf): 2015 – $53.92/$3.22, 2016 – $60.58/$3.48, 2017 - $65.18/$3.70, 2018 - $69.35/$3.89, 2019 - $70.74/$4.07. Based on Wood Mackenzie data where available or company estimates.

Conger Field Hickory Field Production (EUR) 243 MMboe 47 MMboe Commodity 61% Oil 28% Oil NPV10 $2.7 B $520 MM IRR 47% 49% Breakeven Commodity Price $17.03/bbl + 1.70/Mcf 19.82/bbl + 1.98/Mcf Discovery to Production 2 years 2 years Exploration Spend at Today’s Cost $105 MM $42 MM Development Spend at Today’s Cost $977 MM $353 MM F&D ($/boe) $4.45 $8.46 Discovering E&P Hess Anadarko Development Sub-sea Platform Water Depth 1,594’ (Floating Rig Depth) 320’ (Jack-up Rig Depth) Reservoir Depth 19,845’ 15,970’

What do previous Shelf Miocene fields look like at today’s costs and commodity prices? Income Actual production history priced on 1/21/15 strip Expenses Modern service costs estimates (mid-year 2014 estimate)

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Valuation: Cobalt Analog

Cobalt At IPO (1/2010) GulfSlope Today (1/2015)

Regional Focus

  • Sub-salt GoM & W Africa
  • Sub-salt GoM

Mgmt History

  • Ex-Unocal & BP
  • Ex-Anadarko

Asset Acquisition Lease blocks from federal government at annual lease sale Resource Estimate

  • 8.2B Boe (1)
  • 2B+ Boe (1)

Prospect Generation Strategy

  • Build veteran team of highly skilled explorationists
  • Utilize regional seismic data with newest technology

(RTM) to identify and capture high value prospects Strategy

  • Drill high impact Miocene prospects
  • Establish JVs with E&P partners to diversify risk

GSPE Target Area Cobalt Target Area (+W Africa) Source: Company data and public company filings. (1) Based on DeGolyer & MacNaughton Resource Reports. (2) Enterprise value divided by 3rd party recoverable Resource Estimate.

GulfSlope has significant valuation upside vs Cobalt IPO pricing

Valuation (2)

  • $0.45 / boe
  • $0.04 / boe

12 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120

Shelf Deepwater

Exploration Drilling Appraisal Drilling Permitting Construction & Development Drilling 1 2 3 4 YEARS 5 6 7 8 9 +/- 3 Years +/- 9 Years1

GulfSlope Advantage: Shorter Cycle Times

Value of GulfSlope is approx. $1 billion assuming Cobalt IPO valuation

“Most of the value destruction occurs in the appraisal phase when you drill too many wells before making the final [development] investment decision.” – CEO of Deepwater E&P

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GSPE continues to execute on its strategy of exposing investors to multiple high-impact exploration

  • pportunities

Building Momentum

Announce Drilling Plans and File Permits Uplist to National Exchange Annual Lease Sale March 2015 Drilling Rig Commitment Spud 1st Exploration Well Late ’15/Early ‘16

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  • On track to drill late 2015/early 2016
  • Actively drilling through the oil price downturn with lowest breakeven prices

in North America

  • 2 Billion boeof potential oil and natural gas resources
  • Leading the industry redevelopment of the Shelf Miocene play
  • Proven leadership with track record of finding significant oil and gas fields
  • Management team fully aligned with investors, ~$10MM of management

invested capital to date

Investment Highlights

“Deepwater size prospects at shallow water costs and with shorter cycle times”

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Investor Relations Contacts

OTCQB: GSPE

GulfSlope Energy

Brady Rodgers 281.918.4110 brady.rodgers@gulfslope.com

www.GulfSlope.com

MZ Group

Derek Gradwell 512.270.6990 dgradwell@mzgroup.us