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Quantafuel — Investor Presentation 2022
Nov 15, 2022
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Q3 2022 presentation
QUANTAFUEL ASA
15 November 2022
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This presentation (the "Company Presentation") has been prepared by Quantafuel ASA, reg. no. 915 119 484 (the "Company", and together with its consolidated subsidiaries, the "Group").
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STRATEGY AND GROWTH
PLANT & PROJECT UPDATE
FINANCIALS
Confidently moving forward into next phase
- Skive improvement program progressing well
- Roll-out of next generation PtL plant on track
- Progress in the UK
- Construction of Resource Denmark well under way
STRATEGY AND GROWTH
PLANT & PROJECT UPDATE
FINANCIALS
QUANTAFUEL MK II PROCESS
Way forward
- Skive learnings key for the Mk II process continue to reach new milestones
- FEED progressing as planned
- Final Investment Decision (FID) expected early next year
- Saipem cooperation moving ahead has led to significant interest from major petrochemical actors
SUNDERLAND PROJECT PROCEEDING AS PLANNED
Quantafuel continues to receive strong support
- Approval of planning application for Sunderland expected early next year
- Positive discussions with feedstock suppliers
- Engaged UK-based financial advisors CBRE Limited
- Will work to secure funding commitments for up to four pipeline projects in the UK
- Quantafuel will hold a minority share (~20%) and maintain control of the IP and lead the partnership
CBRE is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment company
PROJECT PIPELINE
Significant upside from acting now – clear first mover advantage for Quantafuel
STRATEGY AND GROWTH
PLANT & PROJECT UPDATE
FINANCIALS
SKIVE
Improving operational cost and margin
- Our systematic improvement approach continues to show progress
- All four production lines equipped with instrumentation allowing heating with self-generated gas (NCG)
- Testing and optimization has led to bringing operating load towards design capacity with high process stability
- Promising testing to improve operating time between line shutdowns
- Offtake agreement for our products renegotiated and improved
KRISTIANSUND
Maintaining attractive offtake prices and ramping up feedstock
- Maintaining attractive prices despite an uncertain waste plastic market
- Limitation in available feedstock restricts full utilisation – but gradually improving
- Actions are in place to improve sourcing of feedstock
- Positive cashflow expected from around mid 2023
ESBJERG – RESOURCE DENMARK
Becoming a market leader in an attractive part of the value chain
- The construction is well under way
- Ground-breaking ceremony with Esbjerg's Mayor in September
- Commissioning late 2023
- A game-changer for the post-consumer plastic waste market in Denmark and a key advantage for the co-located large-scale PtL plant
State-of-the art sorting plant and later PtL plant
STRATEGY AND GROWTH
PLANT & PROJECT UPDATE
FINANCIALS
FINANCIAL OUTLOOK
- NOK 247 (314) million in cash per 30 September 2022
- Positive operational cash flow from plants
- Skive: By year-end 2022
- Kristiansund: Mid 2023
- Skive EBITDA expected to gradually improve towards normalised level of ca 70 million from 2025 onwards
- Appointed ABG Sundal Collier as advisor for strategic review
- Appointed CBRE as development funding agent for Sunderland project and potentially a UK portfolio
STRATEGY AND GROWTH
PLANT & PROJECT UPDATE
FINANCIALS
- Skive improvement program progressing well
- Increasing stability and throughput
- Improved offtake agreement
- Mk II roll out on track
- FEED process for PtL plant in Dubai moving on for FID decision in early 2023
- UK development progressing with permitting processes and financing
- Saipem agreement adds licensing to our business model
- Construction of Resource Denmark well under way
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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