John Snelling, ANZ - Market developments - Outlook and impacts for Galilee projects

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Market Developments Galilee Basin Coal & Energy Conference John Snelling Executive Director - Corporate Advisory 25 November 2013

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John Snelling, Executive Director, Corporate Advisory, ANZ Bank delivered this presentation at the Galilee Basin Coal & Energy Conference. This conference focuses on developing a new, world scale energy province in Central Queensland. It looks at the significant proposed investment in the Galilee area including coal mining, underground coal gasification, coal seam gas, geothermal, shale and much more, bringing together the wide variety of explorers, project developers, service providers and government representatives under the one roof. The event is run in conjunction with the Australian Journal of Mining (AJM). For more information about the event, please visit the conference website: http://www.informa.com.au/galileebasin2013

Transcript of John Snelling, ANZ - Market developments - Outlook and impacts for Galilee projects

Market Developments

Galilee Basin Coal & Energy Conference

John SnellingExecutive Director - Corporate Advisory

25 November 2013

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Agenda

Macro

Coal

Finance

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Macro

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A better looking 2014

• We expect commodities to firm towards the end of the year and improve in 2014 as comfort around the Chinese demand outlook and improving growth elsewhere sets a positive backdrop for prices

• We think prices bottomed in June this year, with official Chinese PMI data basing and Chinese government stimulus and inventory restocking re-emerging

• Investment positions look more encouraging with commodity index holdings and US commodity futures markets trending higher over the third quarter

• That said price gains have been tepid and look more like relief rallies and short covering rather than fresh buying. Signs of more consistent positive data in China would improve the sentiment triggering long investors to return

• The US news flow will continue to provide a volatile backdrop with better economic data offset by QE exit chatter. The reverse would be better, with dull data pushing back the timing on QE tapering

• Inventory levels still look tight, which flags the need for further restocking - particularly in iron ore and copper. Coal and oil stocks look higher

• Most of the base metals and coal look oversold, while iron ore and oil look fair value. Precious metals looks vulnerable while US bond yields continue to rise

• Our preferred exposure in 2014 are base metals and energy markets which will be more exposed to positive demand-side dynamics. The bulks will lag, with increasing supply and or inventory overhang holding back better price gains

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Another difficult year for commodity markets in 2013, but 2014 will be better – base metals and oil the outperformers

Source: ANZ Research

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Average Annual Percentage Change

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ANZ CCI ANZ Global Inventory Pulse (RHS)

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Coking Coal

% return from 1 Jan 2012

2012 2013

bottoming in June

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US Developed China Emerging

contribution to global growth

foreast

Source: ANZ Research

ANZ Global GDP Growth Forecasts Commodity Price Performances

ANZ CCI & ANZ Global Inventory Pulse Global PMIs

Global growth will bottom in 2013 at 3% before rebounding to 4% in 2015

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Source: ANZ Research

Investment Fund Commodity Positions

This is showing up in tepid investment fund activity– total funds in global commodity indices have gained only a modest US$15b or 6.5% since June after a US$140b or 37% sell-off in the first half of 2013

CFTC Non-Commercial Gold Positions

CFTC Non-Commercial Oil Positions CFTC Non-Commercial Copper Positions

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Index points Index points

China play

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ANZ CCI & Shanghai Composite China Yearly House Price Change

China GDP and Power Production Growth Government Target Expenditure 2012/13

A choppy to weaker Chinese equity market has flagged softer commodity demand conditions – but the industry data has been a lot better, while government stimulus should gather pace towards the end of the year

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ANZ Forecasts

China’s long term appeal is still very much in tact – steel stock supply is still well below developed world levels, while modest mine life for many commodities suggests prices will need to stay high

Source: Bloomberg, ANZ Research

Global Steel Stock Inventory (1950-2012)China Annual GDP Breakdown

Global Commodity Intensity Curves Global Commodity Mine Life

1010

Resources Exports – value growth 2002 to 2012

A$56 billion A$192 billion

2002 2012

Source: Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics

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Coal

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Coal Summary

• We think coal prices have bottomed out in Q3 2013, spot Newcastle thermal hitting USD76/t and Australian Premium hard coking coal basing at USD131/t

• This period coincides with a pullback in high cost Chinese coal production and in a drop in marginal US coal exports

• We only expect prices to rise marginally in 2014 with firming Chinese demand offset by the backdrop of still high Chinese stockpiles

• Stronger coal exports from Australia and Indonesia will also cap the upside. Australian suppliers will continue to operate at capacity because of fixed cost commitments and Indonesian coal producers high-grading (lowering strip ratios to sustain margins)

• We think 2015 holds better price upside particularly for thermal coal as delayed expansion plans, particularly in Australia and a return to higher strip ratios in Indonesia limits a meaningful supply response

• We expect Newcastle thermal coal prices to average USD88/t in 2014 followed by USD95/t In 2015

• In coking coal the price expectation for 2014 is USD175/t with prices expected to strengthen further in 2015 to USD180/t

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y/y % change

Source: Bloomberg, ANZ Research

China thermal power demand is up, but domestic supply is down

China Thermal Power & Coal Production Growth

China Thermal Power & Hydro Production Growth

• Chinese coal demand growth (thermal power) appears to be outperforming domestic coal supply growth, currently creating a supply deficit

• Falling domestic coal prices in the past two years has diminished coal profitability significantly, particularly in the large producing north east provinces

• Stronger thermal power demand has also benefited from diminishing hydropower capacity

• A particularly dry Chinese summer has accentuated the drop in hydropower availability with growth rates again in negative territory

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A drop in Chinese domestic coal production has benefited Australian thermal coal exports

Source: Bloomberg, ANZ Research

China Thermal Coal Origins

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m tonnes• The drop in Chinese coal production has been supplemented by a rise in coal imports

• The biggest beneficiary has been Australian thermal coal exports, which has now surpassed Indonesia as the largest seaborne supplier into China

• The attraction of coal exports has been the underperforming price performance of Newcastle FOB against key lower rank Indonesian coals

• The recovery in the price spread in the past 6 months confirms a stronger appetite for the higher ranked Australian coal supply

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China’s coal production has been falling for the past 3 quarters

China Coal Production

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• A key reason for the slump in thermal coal prices has been the strong supply growth in China

• Significant industry consolidation in the past 3 years had seen the closure of inefficient capacity only to be replaced by larger more efficient coal supply

• However falling coal prices and profitability has seen the higher cost capacity in China start to pullback significantly in the past 12 months

• The other supply drag has been the significant jump in US coal exports post the US shale boom leaving excess coal supply

• But falling seaborne coal prices and rising freight costs has seen this swing supply fall over 10% y/y in the past 12 months

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Aus + Indo Exports

Indonesian Coal Exports

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• A reason coal prices haven’t rebounded more strongly is the ongoing strong supply growth in Indonesia and Australia

• Indonesian thermal coal supply is maximising output to sustain margins and pay, in many cases high debt obligations

• In Australia the supply response has been even stronger

• High fixed-costs and infrastructure take-or-pay arrangements are factors in the supply response

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Source: Bloomberg, ANZ Research

China Thermal Coal Imports

India Thermal Coal Imports

• The long term outlook for the world’s largest thermal coal importers – China & India remains strong

• Although China’s y/y growth rate will drop significantly, total tonnages forecast to grow strongly to 2020

• India’s import demand is equally as strong, by 2020 India will make significant ground on China as the largest importer

• In 2020 it’s expected that total tonnages imported into India will be almost three times the level a decade prior

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Australian exports to grow

Source: Bloomberg, ANZ Research

Australian Coal Exports

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Thermal Coal Exports

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Thermal growth (RHS) forecast

• Australia expected to capture a significant share of the demand growth in Asia Pacific region

• Total coal exports to grow by 21% from 2012 to 2015

• In thermal coal, demand growth out to 2020 will support significant supply capacity increases

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Finance

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Alignment

Queensland�Coal�Regions�and�Ports

GalileeBasin

SouthernBowenBasin

SuratBasin

Abbot�Point

DBCTHay�Point

Gladstone

Brisbane

NorthBowenBasin

• Development of coal chain infrastructure requires alignment of the mine and infrastructure elements, with respect to schedule, system specifications, approvals funding and risk allocation

• Alignment will be an important issue in future financings

• Alignment requires collaboration

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Business Risk of Rail and Port Infrastructure

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• Reserves and production dependent

• If single or few mines:

o concentration of reserves and production risks;

o limited ability to socialise default risk;

o for new coal basins, initially only limited customer replacement potential;

o potential stranded asset issues;

o terminal and part of rail infrastructure may have broader potential catchment from existing

coal basins.

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Separate or Linked / Integrated Financings?

Benefits Issues

Separate

• Access separate (specialised) financier pools for mine and infrastructure

• Facilitates equity structure flexibility and sell down e.g. post Completion

• Facilitates multiple customers for infrastructure

• Mine risk limits financier pools anyway• Fragmented security pools – no step-in

rights for whole of business• Payment security across each interface –

additional cost and credit utilisation• Higher position on mine cash cost curve• Need to ensure information provided to

financiers is consistent

Linked / Integrated

• Reflects interdependency of components

• One security pool – step-in across whole business

• Reduce cross default issues • Eliminate payment security costs

across interfaces• Apply cash sweep proceeds across

whole of financing• Cash cost curve position

• Inter-creditor terms for linked financing• Reduced flexibility on separate equity

ownership of mine and infrastructure components

• Not reflective of potential portfolio risk for infrastructure

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