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SoupChicken,

"Can I call you Mr Happy, what age are you btw ?"

Yeah, just please don't call me Mr Sad, Mr Grumpy, or anything like that. 'Cos I ain't. Especially as I've (literally just a few minutes ago) come in first in my little online tournament! It's only real low-stakes stuff, but I've just transferred 450 euros to my bank account. Not bad two hours' work; sitting in the comfort of my flat, with a DVD of Eric Clapton and friends in the background, with a beer beside me. Beats being up at two in the morning in the rainforest, in the rain of course, trying to do a two-stage cement job and finding the stage-collar won't open at the anticipated 2700 psi, and gritting one's teeth alongside the cementer and taking it all the way to 3700 until the shear-pins actually DO shear, 'cos otherwise the cement above will set up, we won't be able to displace it, and it'll cost a million to rectify the sh*t we've created for ourselves. Not to mention the sh*tstorm which will come down on us from town. All of which without having slept for 27 hours.

No, if I get run down by a bus tomorrow, it doesn't bother me. I've lived.

But I'd rather like to see my Hurricane investment come to fruition before then!

Oh yeah. Age? 64. Mental age? 23.

Nigwit,

Twice in one day. This must be a record. However

" The market, which is full of expert analysts, says one price and collectively this board says another. "

and yes, I agree with you.

The 'big movers' in 'the market' is indeed full of 'expert analysts'. But experts and analysists of what? Share-prices and financial movements, that's what. Not technical oil stuff, otherwise they'd be working in the oilfield where the work is lots more fun (if you like that kind of thing) and the pay just as good if not better.

Sure, people like myself and others here have some beefs about the current SP and reckon it should be higher, based on the fundamentals, were it not for the trading activities of a certain so-called 'investor' who in the last financial year has made enough money to finance a further Lancaster well, were his outfit a real investor.

But enough of that, think on't.

And anyway, I don't care about 'climate change'. I've got no children (or at least not that I'm aware of), and will most likely be dead within the next ten years, if not earlier. I'm selfish. And only in this for the money.

Oof. Soon going to be time to join my little late-night poker tournament. But (despite not being a woman) I'm capable of 'multitasking', which in this case has involved skimming through today's posts here (or at least, some of them), and at the same time watching a movie. An old videotape (yes, I've kept them) playing on my old video cassette player (kept that as well).

The movie is an ancient thing from 1982, but an old favorite. Called 'Who Dares Wins', which is of course the motto of the SAS. It was a very popular movie at the time because of a certain patriotism reigning then due to a conflict over 'ownership' of the Falkland Islands. Some people here might be too young to remember that: myself I was working as Assistant Driller on the N.Sea Montrose Alpha platform back then, and we were glued to the TV news about the 'war' whenever possible.

Some other young people here might not even know where the Falklands are. I suggest they google 'Rockhopper' and the 'Sealion Field'. A good google search with cross-reference, might even explain what the fighting was really all about. Yup. Not just a few sheep-farms and national pride, but also that nasty stuff, oil.

That movie's a good contrast to the tree-hugging stuff recently posted here, and the fear portrayed in the name of 'environmentalism'. Plus also the fear of 'risk' shown by one particular poster, with his sanctimonious warnings that we should hedge our bets and stuff like that.

Which I find sad and somewhat pitiful, really. A sign of the times.

'Who Dares Wins'. It's a good motto. And although I've never served in the military, it's a motto which has in some ways ruled my life for decades. And certainly does regarding my Hurricane investment, the quantity of which is nobody else's business but mine. I'm not 'all in' with HUR, but my 'portfolio' is heavily weighted that way.

Talking of 'all-in', I've got a poker game to join. And if I make the final table (as is often the case), I'll doubtless have to go 'all-in' more than once if I'm going to finish in the top five (where the money really is), or even better, finish in first place.

'Who Dares Wins'.

And tough luck for the sheep.

MCB55,

'Blind Toss' ?

What does that mean?

Maybe Nigwit can explain.

Hey, the LSE rude word censor thing has just thrown a wobbler! Make sure you type 'wrist watch' as two separate words, otherwise a bunch of asterisks appear!

Next occasion I want to insult someone I'll call them a 'timepiece worn on the arm'. I hope they'll feel suitably offended...

Nigwit,

"Ask yourself why he is no longer employed in the industry if he is so skilled and infallible and be careful."

I haven't been 'employed' in the oil industry since the year 2000, which is when I became a self-employed consultant. The fact that I no longer have the drudge of going through airports every few weeks and working 25/8 in the field, sometimes in some very inhospitable places where people might want to hold you hostage or quite simply kill you for your wris****ch is neither here nor there. Sure, I miss it in a perverse way, but have found I can have just as much fun at home, get up to more mischief, and have a drink whenever I want to. Plus I have more time to in dulge in a favorite hobby which is sleeping, even if it's sometimes at some rather strange hours.

Nigwit,

" I don't know their (CA's) motivations (for reducing by 50%)"

(parentheses added by myself)

If I could bank £26 million in profit in exchange for 50% of my holdings in an oil company which has yet to get any oil to market, I think that would motivate me a lot!

Cebo,

" do you remember the extra permit that was issued for seabed work around the same time as the hook-up which never received much discussion here(if any) as everyone was to busy predicting huge waves till May at the time. I never was sure what that was about."

Now you mention it, yes, I do remember now! And yes, there were some curious vessel movements which had no obvious link to either the hookup or Warwick...

Good point. Hmmm...

Nigwit,

"The issue I see is that the geology of Lancaster needs testing. That is why the EPS has been deployed."

You see wrong. The two production wells have already been 'tested', and why should that be an 'issue' anyway? The EPS is in place for a number of reasons, one of which is to see if the reservoir (not just the two wells) appears to behave in a manner which confirms the modelling analysis. Dr Trice appears to be very confident that it will, and I (through considerable reading of the technical documentation) happen to agree. Which is why I'm invested here, with my 'portfolio' remaining heavily 'unbalanced' in favour of Hurricane. Which is my affair, not yours.

The point being, however, that I understand such technical literature, whereas you do not, by your own admission in posts long passim, and not just on this BB but 'elsewhere'. For a while...

Another reason that big boat is out there is to provide the company with some healthy positive cashflow, 'cos things such as the reservoir modelling have already cost millions. It's not stuff dreamed up and pencilled on the back of restaurant napkins.

Cebo,

" Tie back to the WOSP (West of Shetlands Pipeline) has already began. I knew this was on the cards but not that it had already started,"

Although the annual report refers to work on the WOSP, I don't think it refers to anything physically being done yet. Maybe just engineering planning and stuff like that, which is nevertheless 'work'. The obvious tie-in point is near where the pipeline makes a dogleg over the Whirlwind area, but no shipwatchers have reported any 'interesting' vessels there, and there's been nothing in the Kingfisher bulletins.

This is a truly weird share. In about 85% of cases there are usually two things that give an O&G company's SP a little kick upwards, no matter how small. Rig mobilisation, and then spud.

Here? Nada. Nothing.

Ilikesalmon,

Wrt your latest post.

I advise you and others not to write anything that might make the Snail laugh, 'cos laughing is probably very painful for him at the moment.

Nigwit,

"Previous climate changes prove that the Earth's climate is not stable and can change. In the past when this has happened it has caused the mass extinction of the status quo."

For once I agree with you. However, while sitting here typing I have the television news on in the background, and can't help thinking (not for the first time) that this planet would probably be a better place if the human race became extinct.

If there's one common factor I've noticed about 'environmentalists', it's that they're usually people who are scared of death. Which I'm not.

BlooBird,

I stand corrected. You're right.

And having heard that the Snail's in hospital (I phoned him an hour ago), he's appropriately named.

For info, he didn't get six broken ribs through having been kicked by a camel.

"I'm beginning to think I'm the only sane one so I probably do need some therapy."

Yes, doctor.

thestreet,

"Noticed you post with the names of shameless posters of this forum was removed 7.07. "

Thanks for the info. It's rare that I'm awake at such an early hour, but I noticed (later) that there seemed to be some upset on this BB and reference to a deleted post.

Was my name mentioned, by any chance? I hope so, 'cos I'm a poster with nothing to be ashamed about. Other than a time at a wild party thirty-five years ago when a good friend's girlfriend was completely drunk and...

Ilikesalmon,

"Escargot - 'However my good name IS worth worrying' So what is your name then?"

Mr W. Worrying Esq. ?

"some kind of secret group that I can join?"

Sounds like it. Guess you'd better ask Nigwit for details. Don't know if they'd allow you to join, though.

I've just noticed something. Nigwit's post is actually comparing this HUR message board with that of CTAG. And that made me laugh. In fact I've just flipped pages to check that a CTAG message board still exists, which it does, though there aren't many posters, naturally. And what posts there are read rather like a copy of 'Breeding Dodos for Fun and Profit'.

I'm glad to read that Nigwit has reduced his holding here to an amount he wouldn't mind losing. Though personally I find that a somewhat strange attitude. When I get into a poker game it's never with more than I can afford to lose. But if I play badly or some joker pulls off some million to one stunt which beats me, I absolutely hate it! An amount I wouldn't MIND losing? Maybe five euros or so...

Nigwit,

"The difference between Hurricane message boards and CTAG, for instance, is that there is a cohort who meet elsewhere before posting here."

Is there? That's news to me. I wonder where they find the time to do that.

Jiffy,

"Given all the 'Climate Change' carp as of late , it certainly would , in fact I would imagine, you would eventually get Troll versus Troll now that would be good."

OK. So let's try it! If a 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl can mobilise thousands on the streets, Adoubleuk can do something here!

I will post a daily reminder here in the runup to May 1st reminding everyone who feels in any way POSITIVE about their investment in Hurricane NOT to post here on that day (barring RNS or a 'flarewatch)'.

Let's see what happens....