BENEFITS OF DOCUMENT
DESCRIPTION
Finance Model providing a dynamic (up to 20 years) forecast and profitability analysis of a development and operating scenario for an LNG Liquefaction Plant. The main purpose of the model is to enable users to get a solid understanding of the financial feasibility of the project and to evaluate the return to investors.
The model provides 2 different operations agreements the investors have entered into with the Government.
1) Tolling Plant: Tolling is a new model of LNG plant operation. Under tolling, a customer (natural gas supplier) pays a toll to run gas through a liquefaction plant owned by another company. The plant owner is merely interested in providing the liquefaction services and collecting the toll. This model is practical in the United States.
2) Export Oriented Unit: A merchant commercial structure, where thhe producer of natural gas is a different entity than the owner of the LNG export facilities, and the LNG liquefaction project company purchases natural gas from the upstream E&P project company under a long-term natural gas sale and purchase agreement.
The structure of the template follows Financial Modeling Best Practices principles and is fully customizable.
Model Structure
• Setup Assumptions
This section is used to input all the assumptions for the project.
It includes assumptions for Project Timing, Plant Development Budget, Selection of Operations Agreement (Export or Tolling), Plant Capacity and Efficiency, Upstream Gas input and LNG export, Pricing (Revenue and COGS), Tax Credit Incentives (ITC & PTC), CapEx, Opex & Financing
• Debt Schedule
Loan amortization Schedule of project's debt including an optional interest-only (IO) period.
• Annual Operating Model, Project Returns & Performance Dashboard
Presentation of Project results in Annual Periods. Sections include:
– Annual Development & Construction Cash Flow
– Annual Operating Cash Flow
– Pre-Tax and After-Tax Cash Flow
– Unlevered & Levered Project Return Metrics (IRR, MOIC, Payback, NPV)
– Equity, Debt, CapEx & Depreciation and Tax Schedules
– Business Performance Dashboard
• Investor Returns (Waterfall)
Investors Distribution Waterfall Model including a GP Catch-up provision
• Project Executive Summary
Professional Executive Summary report containing all of the high-level relevant information for review and is designed to be easy to read, print, and save to pdf. The report includes Project General Info, Timing, Sources, and Uses of Cash, Operations Summary and Key Metrcis, Project and Investor return metrics.
Instructions on the use of the model are included in the Excel file.
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Source: Best Practices in Integrated Financial Model, Oil & Gas Excel: LNG Liquefaction Plant – Project Finance Model Excel (XLSX) Spreadsheet, Profit Vision
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