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Iamlovingit,

I have 'recommend ticked' your post, and wish I could do so ten times, but it doesn't work. Wish it did.

Big 10-4.

Iamlovingit,

" whats a well without a fishing op?"

A happy one. 'Fishing jobs' (of course with 20/20 hindsight, afterwards) are 99% of the time 'avoidable'. If you have a 45% 'wellrate' without having to fish, you're doing OK. But 'doing OK' is rather lacksadaisical. 83%? yeah, maybe that's OK.

If rumours are correct (and I underline I have NO 'inside info' right now), that's three fishing jobs on two wells. Not good.

This is in no way a negative reflection on Hurricane per se. But if the bit got stuck again during the buildup section, or something like that, as a sharholder I start (inwardly) asking some questions.

Though I asked one last night, and it remained unanswered. Is the TOL a 'happy' rig? It may seem a trite question, but isn't one. As a shareholder in Hurricane (the Operator), Transocean doesn't seem to have performed too well during this campaign.

WW,

"That’s the exact opposite of change you oldie. You’re missing the point deliberately."

Who you calling 'oldie', Oldie?

And no, I'm not.

However, must rush to my habitual late-night online poker-game, entering just before the end of the rebuy / addon period, as is my habit.

Back in a while, either when I've won, or been knocked out.

PS If online poker had existed back in the 80's, I'd never have made it further than roughneck! Ch ch ch chaanges...

Wellwell,

" We old fuds don’t like change "

Speak for yourself. I thrive on change! (Except the latest fad of youngsters with powerful speaker-systems hidden in a backpack broadcasting hip-hop 'music' on the streets!) Siht, what was bypassing my EGR, if not change? 'Chipping' the brains of the motor (again, done myself) made things even better!

(Please don't tell my insurance company.)

Iamluvingit,

(Like the pseudo, by the way! It can be fun here.)

HOWEVER...

" the ADUK turns up and says he suspected fishing had been going on with the hotshot trips to Scrabster, as if he never knew"

I've put it in an earlier post, but I'll repeat it again in the most formal terms possible. I KNEW nothing. I have no 'inside-track' connections to the company's operations. Privvy to some well-founded rumours, sometimes, but I haven't even contacted those people during this well.

But (as explained in other posts), if the supply-boat heads for Scrabster, my heart sinks... It's a 'hotshot' of some sort.

OK?

Wellwell,

I've waited 'til after-hours to argue with you about the OT subject ! :-)

" Greta is trying to make a point for the planet. The fact she's made it so well has upset those who don't believe or fully subscribe in climate change. As well as the usual idiots."

I think you've missed out a category here, which I personally fit into. Because I don't consider myself an idiot, and I'd certainly be on e if I didn't believe in climate change. As to 'subscribing' to climate change, that's a rather odd concept. I mean, I don't 'subscribe' to climate change in the same way as I subscribe to my online copy of the Times. Make a payment and it drops into my email inbox every day. Climate change isn't something I pay for, and I'd have sent it back with a note of disgust during a couple of days of the recent heatwave.

But if you believe in the anthropogenic causes of climate change (on which subject I remain definitely sitting on the fence, sucking on a blade of grass), maybe I do pay for climate change. Through buying the diesel which fuels my car.

But when I gas up on my way to go play poker at Chatelaillon, I'm not filled with pangs of remorse and guilt that by doing so it may increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. If CO2 emissions made me feel guilty, I might as well stop breathing pdq.

No, you've missed out a category of person, a category who are utterly disinterested in what Ms Thumsuck has to say or do, though acknowledging her celebrity status as another weird social phenomenon. And that is the category who are aware that climate change is happening, but SIMPLY DON'T CARE! And I'm one. OK, Chicken Little is running around saying the sky is falling, and maybe it is. But SO WHAT? I'm more concerned about the steady ongoing fall in the Hurricane SP, thanks very much.

I'm not completely thick between the ears, though, and I do believe in things like the 'butterfly effect', the laws of unexpected consequences, and so on. But as a result am quite prepared to accept that my driving to the casino may somehow provoke a volcano to erupt off Sumatra, or somewhere like that. An volcanos are enormous contributors to climate-change, much more than my car's exhaust emissions.

On which subject (exhaust emissions), a few years ago I took out my spanners and fitted a device which 'neutralised' the EGR valve on my rangerover, which has the 3 litre BMW straight six diesel fitted. The EGR is a so-called 'environmental' device, but one which would make any halfway decent engineer have nightmares. Result (proved by emissions controls taken at the two-yearly test) ? The car runs cleaner, plus I get better mileage!

Yorkshirelife,

No! I'm not picking on you! But your sparse posts contain a lot.

" At 16 with aspergers... she could still teach most politicians a thing or two ."

The new UK Prime Minister displays many of the symptoms related to Asperger's.... Or has nobody noticed that?

JayKay,

"But as a full on OT, Ada Lovelace (don't!) invented computer programming in the 1850s, way before the computer, and was forever in the shadow of Babbage and her father Lord Byron... More than a hundred years till her brilliance properly got to shine ;o)"

Yes, I know that. But the analogy doesn't hold any water whatsoever. Ms Thumsuck is saying (nor has invented) anything new. Just regurgitating unverified 'popular science' and putting a particular slant on it.

You mentioned Babbage. There is a partial re-construct of his 'differential machine' in the London Science Museum. But other (original) parts are in the Museum of Science, Oxford. Of course the metal they're made from were mined using sheer manpower with steam-driven infrastructure, with coal as the energy-source. Linewise the workshops in which such parts were machined.

But the point is... so what?

Yorkshirelife,

My apologies. I've just finished my habitual online game in 4th place (ie in the money) but am still wide awake. So another bit from your post.

"increased global human population! Cure that and you "start" to heal the planet... "

Nonono. There's nothing wrong with the planet.

When the comet or meteor which wiped out the dinosaurs hit, the planet (let's call her Ms Gaia) maybe said 'Ouch!' (assuming she's sentient), but carried on her giddy way orbiting around her friendly sun, probably completely unaware that various microscopic parasites on her skin had been obliterated.

When Pangea, the old mega-continent split apart due to tectonic movement, what was that? Just a 'facial'. Hey! The uplift of the Alps, Pyrenees, and the Himalayas due to further 'facelifts' are just a few wrinkles appearing on her friendly face.

Of course, Greta Thumsuck is way too young to know anything about the Gai Hypothesis, it's not taught in many schools, and... she chose to skip school to pursue a celebrity career with the connivance of her parents, anyway.

As someone once said, "it's tough to make predictions, especially about the future" (AIM-investors take note).

Same as it's unlucky to be superstitious.

JayKay,

"Anyway, not a debate to be had on here... Another offload!!!!!"

I agree with you there. I waited until well after the bell before blowing off steam on this O/T 'saving the planet' topic. But I had to, because if there's anything worse than waking up, logging in here, and seeing a red SP, it's reading garbage here about 'saving the planet'.

I have spent most of my life working in oilwell drilling, taking risks (sometimes at risk of my own life) in order to provide people with the most energy-efficient power-source to the world (though I didn't think of things in those terms on a day-to-day basis while having fun on the rigfloor), and I drive a beaten-up old diesel-powered rangerover and am proud of such things.

The tree-huggers just get up my nose bigtime, and I don't mind admitting that. For the simple reason that the placard-wavers are as thick as a plank of wood, and have no real understanding of how things work right now, let alone a workable solution to the problems which actually do exist.

One may fairly safely assume that anyone posting here is doing so on a computer, and it's taken a lot of hydrocarbon-burning machines to mine the minerals the thing's made of, power the factories they're made in, produce the plastic the casing's made of, and so on.

In case it's escaped anyone's attention, today is the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival. The high point of the hippies! Some of whom, later, in the aftermath of Altamont, headed for the hills. And advocated a different way of life: wind-power, solar, and so on.

And nothing wrong with that. I myself have a copy of the Whole Earth Catalog still on my shelves, plus the 'Epilog', and so on. But the whole thing is, idealism doesn't provide many calories to a person.

Equally, though, I know how to kill a rabbit painlessly (I think), skin and gut it and make a nice meal. And I bet Greta Thumsuck doesn't.

This is a BB abould an oil company share, goddammit. I hope when I wake up tomorrow I won't be reading any more posts defending something entirely against all investments in such a company. Instead, as to how this SP is below 40, something I never thought I'd see again.

JayKay,

" a 16 year old girl with Aspergers..."

Oh c'mon. Don's swallow that particular bait so easily. Asperger's is a SYNDROME, not a disease. It's a behaviour-pattern, and only recognised by the medical community in such terms in 1981.

A peer in my schooldays exhibited those traits, which unfortunately led to be him being often and cruelly teased. Nevertheless after some years of working as a wage-slave for Barclays, he went on to be managing director of a healthcare company, and now in retirement is a (paid) public speaker on classical music.

Roosevelt wasn't always attracting attention to his wheelchair, was he?

Yorkshirelife,

"which society is EVER going to accept that we don't have a god given human right to have as many children as we want?"

Haven't the Chinese tried it?

Wellwell,

"I question why anyone takes any delight in someone else’s misery."

In that case never sit at the same poker table as me!!! :-))

bartlebobton,

" That is an totally hideous thing to say about a young girl ; extreme in every sense."

What, hoping she gets seasick? Yup, it is rather nasty, I must admit. But at least it'll teach her that her lovely planet ain't all a garden of roses.

Or was it calling her Greta Thumsuck? I bet she's referred to in a lot worse ways in various drilling-rig 'coffee-shops'.

She's a public-figure celebrity these days anyway, so I'll mock her as much as I like. If she can't stand the heat she shouldn't be in the kitchen.

miker444,

" If there is 300 bcf of gas and a 100m barrels of oil obviously both incredible and both worth having even independently of each other but could the gas and oil be extracted at the same time seeing they are at (slightly) different depths."

Yes.

Iamluvingit,

" His first post also states they had a fish and now is confirmed by SOTB and ADUK."

Hey! Leave me out of this! I haven't 'confirmed' anything of the sort. Merely said that rumours know appearing on this BB coincided with thoughts I started having a few days ago.

Wellwell said:

"If you are a grown up, fully-fledged adult and you are mocking this young girl for trying to save the planet then I genuinely feel sorry for you. I also think you are incredibly cruel, vicious and ignorant."

I must admit that whoever wished that Greta Thumsuck's boat sinks is taking things a bit far. A midocean shipwreck is not something to be wished on anybody. But personally I do hope the sanctimonious little know-it-all gets seriously seasick.

All this 'saving the planet' stuff is baloney. A euphamism for keeping the planet in a condition where it can sustain the existence of an ever more populous human race. And that's a fairly tall order. When (not if) the human species becomes extinct, 'the planet' won't bat an eyelid. Probably breathe a sigh of relief, instead.

slipanchor,

"Without naming names, we had a lot of positive posts leading up to the results of WD and look at what happened there. Not always the fault of the poster, in most cases they are just passing on information in good faith."

Well said, that man.

On this BB (and others) there can be rumours, and there can be rumours. But as long as one sifts through them closely, and if one's been following the BB for any length of time, one can usually spot the rumours which have a ring of truth to them, and those which don't.

This is why the other day to one of your posts rather cynically (apologies for that, I meant no offence), about what the boat was doing at Scrabster. Because my inner alarm bells were already ringing.

Today the word 'fishing' has cropped up, so now I think I can mention it, though haven't beforehand. Because that's what I believe has been happening. Simply because of the boat movements. Scrabster isn't a supply base, but it's a 'hotshot port'. Something's needed in a hurry, there's a truck heading north by road from Aberdeen with whatever it may be, while the boat's heading south. And they meet at Scrabster.

And it's fairly axiomatic that when a hotshot's required, something unplanned-for has occured. Which is never good news.

This is an easily-observable pattern that's emerged. Boat going to Scrabster plus vague rumours of something like a fishing job, and most times it's been confirmed further on down the line.

But hey-ho! Siht happens. A fishing job isn't the end of the world (or rather the well), or at least very rarely. Just another delay...

One snippet I'd like to hear from the Granite City barflies who may be in the know is whether the TO Leader is considered a 'happy ship'. Little things like that can count for a lot.

Snail,

"the " fossil fuel " sector is off around 3% today . We are at present off around 2.33% ( live price at 14.30) . Can't complain then eh.... ?"

Sorry, but why not? Yes I can (and am) complaining. I'm looking at another AIM-listed oil-sector stock I hold and so far it's UP 2.17% today. If the market wants to play the violin, why does it have to so so with HUR?

(Gnashing of teeth, etc...)

mover123,

" Overall if I read your post you seem to be indicating that the signals on the drill are not looking good - is this based on your best guesswork /intuition or is there any solid intel and facts behind these? "

No, I have no solid intel or facts about ongoing operations on Lincoln. Just a bit of simple shipwatching, but more to the point, watching the continuing and disturbing decline in the SP, just like everyone else.

I am NOT (unlike one or two here) implying anything's wrong out there. But also, even if there were, as Wellwell has said, hiccups are commonplace in the drilling process, very very rarely irredeemable, and it's the final result which counts.