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Nope, not done. CV is on site and surveying again. Must be night owls like meself ;-)
CV heading back to port. Only a day and a half on the survey site all told, but I guess we could be all done.
CV underway again. Weather and wave heights look ok through the end of the week.
No move from Celtic Voyager this morning. As suspected, Thursday is a write-off too. Good thing the day rate is very cheap compared to Gardline's Kommandor.
Providence Resources has said it will carry out a new survey over a part of its flagship Barryroe field.
The review, which will include “independently evaluated assessments of the field’s development scenarios and their potential”, is considered essential by the board. All the while the company is waiting for approval from the Government to issue an extension to the Barryroe license (known as a lease undertaking), the application for which was completed in July.
https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/providence-resources-to-carry-out-new-survey-of-barryroe-40984788.html
Celtic Voyager berthed in Cork again. Looks to me like they managed a complete pass over the survey site yesterday. Weather/wave heights look gack through Wednesday and possibly Thursday. Might not see much action until after that.
You may rest assured, ps, that I for one do not believe Manyana's tongue-in-cheek remark that you could be the same person as TheShen.
I know for certain that you are not because, as you know, I make such identifications by means of literary criticism, based on the fact that each person's use of language is as reliable a means of identification as the characteristics of a fingerprint.
As I pointed out a few days ago, your adversary on advfn by the name of Sharetrader123 is the same person as TheShen.
You will surely recall that Sharetrader123 caused you some mild irritation by repeatedly referring to you as if you were a woman.
You may also recall that longwait on advfn posed as a woman in his/her very first post on advfn and when I pointed this out over here, TheShen pretended to understand that I myself was claiming to be a woman.
Do you not think it is beyond a coincidence that Sharetrader123 addressed you as if you were a woman and TheShen pretended to understand that I am a woman?
In case you are about to say that you think it is a coincidence, take a look at these posts:
30 Jul 2021 19:09
Sundance if ps figures are so good it makes it even more of a mystery why ps has sold most of her investment ...
(Sharetrader123 on advfn, addressing ps as if he were a woman)
31 Jul 2021 11:31
Sundance, The lady doth protest too much, methinks
(Sharetrader123 on advfn, referring to ps as if he were a woman)
20/10/2021 21:58
I think Longwait on the LSE board is theshen. She has accused absolutely everyone else of being theshen with the notable exception of herself. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
('longwait' on advfn referring to me as if I were a woman)
And the 'coincidences' do not end there, either.
You will recall that a few days ago I pointed out that both TheShen and ranger4 made tasteless remarks about LONGWAIT's 'knickers getting in a twist', an insinuation that I am really a woman.
I really don't think that you are going to disagree with me now that ranger4 and sharetrader123 are the same person as longwait on advfn and TheShen, recently removed from LSE.
In case any of you are thinking of suggesting that I 'give it a rest', you may rest assured that I have no intention of giving it a rest.
Readers are entitled to be informed of the identification of multiple accounts, especially when the owners of those accounts bombard these boards with gratuitously-insulting and crude comments.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, Celtic Voyager appears to have got the survey under way already. Or, at least, they are traipsing back and forth across the survey area. It's almost as if they were doing boring old sonar, instead of deploying the top secret Billion Barrel Bonanza Buster™ machine. LOL.
Manyana: "Explanation please as I want to "learn" from the "master"."
Also Manyana: "... you go to the "trouble" of writing about 400 words. "
Another failure of the logic module there, Manyana. You wanna learn or not? Or were you just asking out of petulance?
Just proves you are an obnoxious prat like your "friend" TheShen.
You are not an "expert" as you say but you want to act like one and it is nice to see you so riled so early in the morning.
Back in your "box" Jack and pull the lid down after you.
And why are you still "following" me as you said a long time ago you had put me on "ignore".
Obviously you have adopted the mantle of TheShen and you follow every word I write as it is clear when you go to the "trouble" of writing about 400 words. Were you suffering again from "insomnnia"?
Perhaps you are TheShen in disguise. That is how you can "claim" you got rid of him.
Try some Night Nurse or, better, a stiff dose of chloroform. It might make you sleep better and quieten you down.
And just to remind you again: even if they were shooting seismic (which they're not), and if seismic could detect oil (which it can't), you STILL can't survey a 660 square kilometre area by traversing nine square kilometres of it. You must think this oil deposit is all stashed in a particular spot, like some leprechaun's crock o' gold. Maybe that's why they went out in such crappy weather ... hoping to spot a rainbow. LOL ;-)
Quit being an annoying prat, Manyana. I never claimed to be an expert, quite the opposite. However, I can Google as well as you can, and that equipment is a combination of sonar, underwater positioning, imaging, and water measurement ... exactly as I said.
Manyana: "The survey is basically to satisfy EU directives so Providence do not end up with another judicial review as in a previous occasion..."
The last judicial review was about the granting of the previous site survey. Are you saying they're doing a survey to avoid a judicial review on the granting of a survey?
Manyana: "... but that does not mean they cannot perform other functions if they so wish."
Uh, yes. That's exactly what it means. Clearly you haven't read the Appropriate Assessment Screening that Providence were required to submit with the survey application. It lists every one of the pieces of equipment to be used, as well as the precise noise levels of each item. They're not allowed scare the dolphins, you know. Underwater seismic produces noise levels more than a thousand times louder than the sonar equipment.
Manyana: "So you think all the other features of the survey boat will be switched off just to satisfy DCCAE and Eamon Ryan."
a) you didn't list any features that could detect that billion barrels of oil you were banging on about,
b) no such feature exists on ANY boat on the planet, let alone the Celtic Voyager; you've been watching too much Star Trek
c) underwater seismic is not something you can just turn on with the flick of a switch, you have to tow a big array of hydrophones.
Manyana: "Explanation please as I want to "learn" from the "master"."
Once again, I am not an expert. Though perhaps I am in comparison to you, since I at least know that there is no technology in existence that can detect "a billion barrels of oil" from above ground. More than happy to explain to you how those estimates are arrived at, in layman's terms. Just ask nicely. You're welcome.
Since you are such an "expert" can you explain what function each of the following features on the survey boat does and why they won't be used in the survey.
Key features of the RV?Celtic Voyager?include:
Kongsberg Simrad EM2040 and EM3002 multibeam echosounders
Kongsberg Simrad EA400 singlebeam echosounder
Ixsea Gaps USBL System
Ideally suited to towed Underwater TV operations
Capable of beam & pelagic and demersal otter trawling
CTD work to 1000m
Full oceanographic services
The survey is basically to satisfy EU directives so Providence do not end up with another judicial review as in a previous occasion but that does not mean they cannot perform other functions if they so wish.
So you think all the other features of the survey boat will be switched off just to satisfy DCCAE and Eamon Ryan. A bit like having an appendage that you just let hang there without using it.
Explanation please as I want to "learn" from the "master".
Survey boat has arrived on site.
Great ... blustery force 6 winds at present, and near gale force Monday night through Tuesday, 15-20ft waves.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ten-sailors-have-lucky-escape-after-yacht-blown-onto-rocks-40980144.html
Celtic Voyager is on the move. 40 km north of the survey site right now.
Part of the survey included the statement they were going to do a "Shallow Geophysical Survey".
What does that mean? Here is the definition.
Sallow Geophysical Survey. Geophysical surveys represent environmentally non-destructive means to explore ground conditions over broad areas and provide contiguous subsurface information in 2 or 3-dimensions. 2D & 3D Underground Vision Shallow geophysics enables users to visualize underground features in-between and beyond borehole locations.
That sounds like sub-surface analysis to me.
What do you think?
Manyana, I stand to be corrected, but isn't the survey being done, only a seabed survey, and not to check if there is any oil and/or gas.
Manyana, I stand to be corrected, but isn't the survey being done, only a seabed survey, and not to check if there is any oil and/or gas.
swizz,
I note you have been here long enough to remember the debacle in 2019 when Providence wanted to do a site survey on Barryroe, on a different location to site "K".
An Taisce got its nose in and instigated a Judicial review claiming the permission by the Department of Communications, etc. did not fulfill all the EU requirements for the survey so Providence withdrew the request and had to go through the process of resubmitting again even though Ryan's department, under a different minister, had given permission in the first place.
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/providence-delays-barryroe-survey-and-drilling-following-legal-challenge/
That raises two very interesting points.
Why are they going through the hassle of surveying a different location to the two areas they surveyed previously which contained the find in 2012? There must be something "special" about "K" that makes this worth while.
Quote: "Site Surveys for Well locations A & B complete. Seabed ready for the commencement of rig operations"'
So what has "K" got that makes it worth surveying as a potential location over "A" or "B"? What do they know about "K" to go to all that bother? Perhaps they have "unofficially" surveyed "K" which they could have done unofficially when they did "B" because seismic is now far more advanced than when Marathon found Barryroe all those years ago and even more advanced than when they discovered Barryroe in 2012 both done with 2D seismic and not 3D.
One possibility is that "K" takes them down to the Jurassic where they reckon there is 3x or more oil and gas than there is in "A" or "B". So now are they just going to officially approve "K" with information they already know? All this survey does is comply with EU regulations to prevent the debacle that took place in 2019.
And, I presume, the results of the survey will form part of the Financial Review as I am sure whatever they find in "K" will be reviewed by Schlumberger who are, after all, the specialists in seismic analysis.
That is why I cannot see Linn's departure as being anything "vindictive" as surely if there was a problem they would have waited until the survey was completed as, I presume, he would have had "write off" of the finances to do it and any major "discovery" would have been a feather in his cap.
An interesting point, if "K" indicated there was say 1billion barrels of oil down there would anybody dare prevent the development? No government would as it would be the equivalent of committing hara-kiri and no government ever willingly got kicked out for looking a gift horse in the mouth.
Celtic Voyager making good progress on route to K site,…GL S
https://www.marine.ie/Home/site-area/infrastructure-facilities/research-vessels/track-vessel
Government consent for Barryroe site surveyDublin and London – 8 February - Providence Resources P.l.c. (PVR LN, PRP ID), the Irish based resource development company (“Providence” or the “Company”), is pleased to announce Government approval to undertake a seabed and shallow geophysical survey and an environmental baseline and habitat assessment survey, at the K-Site location, Barryroe, North Celtic Sea, South West Coast within Standard Exploration Licence 1/11 (“SEL 1/11”) The offshore survey, when completed later this year, will be the third in a series of surveys. The survey must be completed to enable Providence Resources apply for any potential further works on the K site location of the Barryroe field. Further regulatory approvals are required before any commencement of drilling could take place on the Barryroe Field. “