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Iamluvingit,

"This is a 50,000 bbls a day FPSO coming available at the end of the year, not sure if suitable for WOS."

Totally unsuitable for WoS.

Compare / contrast with the AM, where quite a lot of the Dubai work consisted in beefing-up the already-existent weather protection. That boat has none worth speaking of.

That chat here has come around to a future FPSO for GWA makes me chuckle a bit. Sure, an FPSO for GWA seems (according to published literature) the 'programmed' route, but the liklihood of Spirit / Hurricane going window-shopping for suitable boats right now strikes me as remote.

MTV,

"The current financial situation of Spirit may have an impact on future drills"

Or it may not!

Your statement is a complete oxymoron, anyway. Spirit's partnership with Hurricane, and their bankrolling of GWA drilling next year must surely be based upon their 'current financial situation', irrespective of what that may be at some indeterminate time in the future. Otherwise Transocean wouldn't have signed the contract.

Nice try, but no cigar.

JK,

"The rig is for year 2 of the FO with Spirit, 3 further (all being well) GWA production wells... It's all in the plans published by HUR, so not exactly a close kept secret...

As a 7-8 months charter, it 'might' also include enough time for an additional well on Halifax, time will tell...¨

I read this on my phone in a café, thoght about replying, but didn't.

But you're absolutely right.

Essentially, it's 'business as projected' by the Company.

Biffa,

"Whatever he may or may not be, TDG is not SIPP. Trust me you are barking up the wrong tree !!"

Whoever mentioned SIPP? Not me. So far as I know, SIPP has sold out of Hurricane. I was thinking of someone else.

Btw, I (very slightly and humoristically, mildly) object to your idea of me 'barking up the wrong tree'.

No dog in me. Am very respectful of cats, whatever their size, and it's usually repaid in kind.

"LONGWAIT
Just to clarify my NOM DE PLUME is not from a nautical background, it is the name of a famous racehorse. Not inviting any nicknames."

I read this on my phone while sitting in a café across the road from a casino, and before getting down to 'work'.

And it made me laugh, but didn't reply, not liking generally to do emails on my phone.

But now, back home, it makes me laugh even more. Because I'd got mixed up about who was writing what.

'Longwait' being the victim of a notorious nautical prank for 'newbies' is what I'd incorrectly misunderstood.

Now yourself 'slipanchor' owning up to your pseudo being based on a racehourse?

I'm not entirely sure I believe you... :-))

If you ever see someone turning up on a BB calling themselves Snow Knight from now on, you'll know it's me. Won the Derby at 60-1 in 1976 (I think). Massive party afterwards amongst a certain clique (non-university) in Oxford that evening, because we knew what had been put in its oats. Though there was some nail-biting when the dam animal was reticent to enter its starting-stall.

TDG,

"be assured ADUK you are wrong ,i have never reported any post ,too much fun watching the banter . been trading for years but now retired so hence my appearance on this BB."

OK, I'll believe you, and sorry for casting unfounded aspersions. Coincidences happen, and maybe I was adding up two and two and getting three.

tiggerman,

"Most odd. I post a comment and the SP goes blue. "

Please continue posting at appropriate times.

Regarding my own scribbles, I'm seeing a different pattern emerging of late. Fortunately it has nothing to do with the SP, which effects others.

Quite a few times recently, if I post one of my (usually mindnumbingly long and full of trivial details) messages, and it disagrees with what a certain person is propounding, the entire thread gets 'disappeared' the following morning.

I may be wrong, but strongly suspect that newcomer 'tindrumgambler' may just be a new pseudonym being used by someone who's been here for quite a long time, but has lately become suspiciously quiet.

SotB,

"It’s been planted and crated"

If you had a rôle in a Batman comic, it'd surely be as 'The Riddler'.

Mainly because Batman comics couldn't have included a villain called 'F***in' Pain in the Ass'.

Those jokers haven't gone done it again, have they?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMAIsqvTh7g

slipanchor,

"You may think I'm just being pedantic pain"

No, I don't think that at all! Anyway, that position seems to have become my rôle on this BB!

:-))

Nope, I read your stuff with interest, especially as you seem to have become 'shipwatcher-in-chief' lately! Which is fine by me. A dark an' lonely job, but someone's got to do it.

But there's something to remember. The only way we got an inkling of earlier tanker-load volumes really was via our friend Amaja, who hasn't 'reported in' on this one. Maybe for personal, professional, or whatever reasons, and not for us to question why, anyway. Those 'reports' were then confirmed by the company.

My own feeling is that it's essentially immaterial whether the last offload was 400k or 200k (for whatever reason. Output so far has exceeded 'guidance', but the company has nevertheless gone to pains a number of times to listen to 'guidance'. It would be unreasonable to expect a company to 'outperform' all the time. Doesn't matter if they're producing oil, making pizzas, or running a racing-car.

project121,

"Another supply boat on its way the TOL, with little on it extra smaller tubulars. Must be for drilling reservoir. "

Great shipwatching, catching sight of an outbound load! Extra tubulars is highly interesting. It's very doubtful that they'll be for 'drilling the reservoir': the TOL will already have quite enough drillpipe for that. However, tubing for the DST testing string is highly likely.

slipanchor,

"The N.O. had a bunkering vessel alongside all morning labeled as a bunkering tanker, the Haldis was much bigger and labeled as an Inland Motor Tanker."

OK, I wasn't watching 'live' (spending a lot less time shipwatching than I used to), so won't gainsay you. Nevertheless the Haldis is a relatively tiny thing, and is owned by a company called Northstar Bunker, and on their website ( https://northstarbunker.com/fleet ) the vessel is shown as a 'bunkering barge'.

My guess is that the NO was moored up to a loading buoy doing her offload while at the same time taking on fuel. It's possible that the other barge was there taking offload from the tanker's slops tanks, or something like that.

I think the rumours here about 'light loads' and stuff like that are simply being perpetrated by the sort of people who like spreading negative rumours for their own purposes, and nothing more than that. Call me 'confirmation biased', but Dr T said ages ago that if there was any bad news about the EPS, the market would be informed, but so far the only news has been good.

Either way, I don't think the SP is in any way affected by tankerloads, their frequency, or whatever.

slipanchor,

"The Haldis was alongside the N.O. most of the day"

The Haldis is a bunkering vessel. Even oil tankers have to take on fuel from time to time. They don't run on crude!

Wellwell,

"Thankfully we have an expert to point out the obvious in Pisces21’s post. Phew."

Your sarcasm is duly noted. Caused a bright start to my day! :-) However, equally noted is the large number of 'recommends' you post attracted, no doubt from people sharing your simplistic sense of humour. However, those people will be disappointed: I'm not selling!

Pisces21,

"Must’ve been mooring line at 0930hrs, just seen the offload hose being passed across at 1145hrs"

Please don't risk your own job posting such stuff here! Nevertheless, it's much appreciated.

I think I can understand what you witnessed, from wherever it is you are.

The shuttle-tanker approches, and a line is (pretty-much-literally) 'shot' between the two boats. not a 'mooring-line', because the tanker remains on DP. It doesn't 'moor itself' to anything.

But then, using the 'light-line' shot, used to haul over a bigger line, that 'big line' is then used to haul in the loading-hose, which is connected, so that offload can commence.

I think that's what you saw, and a couple of hours to safely do such a manoever sounds efficient and good. It's a lot of heavy equipment involved, involving all sorts of personal safety issues, and of course environmental, because there mustn't be a 'leak' anywhere.

A couple of hours for such things strikes me as inconsequential, and not worth even 'timing'.

And anyway, I have hopes that our friend with contacts with the shipping authorities will keep us postage as to the actual tonnage involved.

Personally, I'm rather just waiting to see about Warwick West. And unlike in the past, not doing much 'shipwatching' regarding that, because lots more diligent people have now joined that'clan', so instead just read what they're finding!

5bob,

"Spirit Energy and Dana Petroleum unveil major investment in North Sea"

Oh *****n' great. Good luck to 'em, and what theyr're doing.

But my investement interests are not in the N.Sea, but instead on what Hurricane's up to on the Weat Alantic continental margin.

Different place altogther. Entirely different 'plays'.

5bob,

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Try again...

luther101,

"Definitely don't take it (playing poker) up - a night at Luton, or Asper's at Stratford, would scare the pants off you."

That made me grin, and provided a good start to the day! :-))

But of course it's already kind of off-topic, as my post to which extrader was referring has been 'disappeared', as I knew it would.

However, if you think Luton is rough, you should try San Sebastian!

Aren't rumours lovely? (And I'm not referring to the Fleetwood Mac album.)

I'm not of the POTUS mentality, which screams 'fake news' whenever something gets published that he doesn't agree with, but I take that article about Premier and Hurricane with significant amounts of salt.

Try this for size:

"Mr Durrant said Hurricane, which is also headquartered in London, was “excelling” in its efforts to develop basement plays."

Hurricane is 'headquartered' in Lower Eashing, a rather charming village close to Godalming, some 35 miles south of London.

MCB55,

"When is Q4 CP likely to be do you think? Normally it is updated on the 1st of each quarter"

No it isn't.

Probably around the 14th, I'd guess.

JackD,

Wrt yr post at 09:01.

"Sachin also made a reference to the CPR value, so we can look forward to it’s distribution. Maybe after the 29th. "

This is an excerpt from the RNS...

" A revised CPR will be commissioned following the EWT and the Company will announce the results of this in due course."

I'm tempted to blow my own trumpet, because for some weeks I've been posting here (and been met with some disagreement) that a CPR regarding W.Newton would have no value if it did not include the EWT data. Also some people even argued that some form of 'CPR' must already be in circulation to potential investors in the placing.

But I will put my trumpet down, and instead urge others here to just read the RNS in its entirity, which includes the above-quoted phrase.

I don't believe we'll see a CPR for at least three months, though that's personal opinion only. However once the EWT restarts there will doubtless be some 'tanker-spotters' reporting from the wellsite, as is always the case with any onshore UK oilfield operations, and that may give us some clues as to how good the well actually is. Even though such information should be treated with caution, because it's often incorrect and those of the 'tanker-spotting persuasion' frequently have limited technical knowledge.