If I am not mistaken, the company still had close to 11MM $AD in the bank after drilling Merlin 1. Now then you add the 2.6MM to that and there is still money to continue exploration this coming season.
There is a document somewhere that spells this out.... but I can't find it.
You can take the information in the document below, then subtract 88E's costs of drilling Merlin 1 and it comes out to approximately what I have stated above. (could be wrong, but seems to be right).