Programs Completed To Accelerate Production-Related Timeline In Texas And Wyoming
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX - Uranium Energy Corp, CEO and President, Amir Adnani, CEO and President said, “The Fiscal 2023 proved to be a year of significant achievements in executing on our strategy and building the premier North American focused uranium company. We continued to make accretive acquisitions and advance our projects with resource expansions and extraction/production restart programs. Our strategy is aimed at a robust uranium supply from the stable and secure jurisdictions of the U.S. and Canada, with near term U.S. ISR production and a pipeline of high-grade Canadian projects with exceptional growth potential."
"UEC remains 100% un-hedged, at a time when the need for new production is becoming acute in the global market and particularly for Western utilities seeking supply assurance. Our balance sheet is debt free with $192.3 million in cash and liquid assets, providing the financial strength to advance projects towards production and support further accretive acquisitions.
Completing the acquisitions of the Rio Tinto Roughrider project, combined with our UEX Corp. purchase, creates a strong regional resource base for us in the Athabasca Basin with attractive synergies. These projects are key to our development pipeline of high-grade projects in Canada, and we will continue to advance them with drilling and production planning.
In South Texas and Wyoming, we completed programs to accelerate the production-readied timeline that will enable a shorter lead-time to restart ISR production from our hub and spoke platforms. Additional drilling was completed in Wyoming and is expected to result in an expansion of current resources as part of the restart program. In South Texas, we established the second production area at Burke Hollow and carried out delineation drilling at the past producing Palangana ISR Project in preparation for its restart.
There has been a step-change across the globe with an increasing number of countries adopting plans and programs to restart, extend the life of and or build new nuclear plants in the quest for clean, safe, highly reliable and cost effective electricity that nuclear power provides. This drive for global clean-energy, along with uranium supply and demand fundamentals, has translated into a rebalancing of the uranium market, transforming it from an inventory burdened to a production driven market. Recent spot price movements have begun to reflect that. Geopolitical situations in Russia and Niger have further accelerated the transition for Western utilities looking for secure uranium supply. These factors underpin our belief that we are in the early innings of a protracted growth stage for nuclear energy, uranium production and our Company."