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Uggy100,

"Tks aduk. Where do you find that info ? I've looked & got nowhere on that one !"

Which bit?

Reservoir pressure in a 'normally pressured' formation being directly proportional to depth is simply a known and accepted geophysical fact.

Information about Monroe Swell oil and that of other oilfields in the vicinity I found over the net. Try this for size (you'll have to copy / paste the link into your browser). Page 28 is the most relevent.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=2ahUKEwizwaepz_zgAhVM4eAKHakdBBwQFjADegQIBhAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpubs.usgs.gov%2Fbul%2F1285%2Freport.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2GTY_LDWiv-LLXOatQoKSL

Uggy100,

"On the podcast I heard flow rates would be lower than West, i'm guessing that's a pressure issue due to the areal extent of the field."

Making a generalisation, reservoir pressure is proportional to depth, not the area involved. However the crude at MS is heavier than at WB, and so flowrates can be expected to be less than at WB, primarily due to viscosity reasons rather than actual density.

MD01

"What are the two Grampians up to with their weird movement around the AM lately?"

Pure guesswork, here...

There is a charge for using the anchorage (to the extent of actually dropping anchor). In the case of the FPSO it must be more economical to actually drop the pick rather than remaning on DP, which would eat up fuel. In the case of the supply boat and the standby boat it's probably cheaper just to maintain slow headway, going back and fro in the vicinity, rather than anchoring up.

PDMSPiper,

" Modern fracking technology has led to perfection of horizontal drilling techniques that were never before possible. "

That (technically) is one of the most daft statements I've heard in many, many years. Advances in horizontal drilling techniques owe absolutely nothing to fraccing. You a confusing the surge over the last couple of decades in shale gas and oil, which has been made possible by both horizontal drilling advances and 'fine-tuning' of fracking. Without both of these technologies, commercial shale wouldn't be possible, true, but the two have happened in parallel, and neither one has led to advance in the other.

Wellwell,

My Rangerover doesn't smoke. The smoke emerging from it is me with one of my Camels. (Filtered).

PS It's the weekend, so camels have to get a mention!

Jiffybag,

"A good friend of mine has a Ferrari, he took me out in it for a spin, very nice car, gets loads of young people and ladies giving you a thumbs up and acting crazy. "

You seem to have neatly summed up a number of good reasons for NOT owning a Ferrari.

The first being 'taken for a spin', because that's what usually happens.

The second being given thumbs-up by young people and ladies acting crazy.

That is a definite 'no-go'. I'll stick with my old landrover. But with the stereo on full blast with something like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEU0_Mqor2k (Albi1 take note)

I've had enough of young ladies acting crazy of late, anyway. I prefer it when I drive past a bus-stop seeing people turning their heads and saying "what the f*ck was that which just went past?"

It happens. Particularly at Place St-Jean at rush-hour, just when I'm headed for Avenue de La Rochelle, on my way on the 50 miles to the Saturday poker-game. With the daily vaguaries of the HUR shareprice being the last thing on my mind!

Play at full volume.

Mr Wilks,

"Today might have been suitable for hook up but think about this...within only a few hours of hook up the sea conditions would be quite considerable, many thousands of dollars of kit being put to a severe test almost immediately. Like a brand new engine wouldn't you want to run it in gently. "

I think you've slightly misunderstood the thing. There's no question of a 'running in' period. It's 'all or nothing'. This has been done twice, and mercifully we've been informed no damage has been incurred on either of the two failed attempts.

Obviously lessons have been learned from the two attempts, hence the upgraded spec of the new 'rope'. Maybe they'll try the next buoy 'pull-in' at a different speed and watching additional vessel-movement parameters, but I don't know. Just a guess.

But 'practice runs'? No, I don't think so. We've had two of those already. Which weren't meant as such, anyway.

Sorry to hear that you're in 'paper loss' territory, but keep it like that, and don't let it cause you lost sleep! It's only when you go to the cashier's desk that you can count your losses or gains.

Have a good weekend, yourself! Mine's started swimmingly, and that's no reference to the rain which now seems to be pouring down outside.

Love_You,

I'm just back in from an evening far too much beer than I should with a friend of decades' standing, who I haven't seen for 18 months or so, and who is now happily snoring away in my spare bedroom.

Logged on in here, nevertheless, before turning in myself, and have seen your interesting post, with a lot of replies. So thought I might join the fray as well, just for weekend O/T fun.

"Posters, you're invested in an oil company - so why aren't you out driving Ferraris rather than posting on here?"

Because it's not an Oil Company, but an Oil Exploration Company, and we're waiting for the return on our investment. And personally I detest Ferraris, and won't buy one.

" I mean what else are you going to do with the investment returns from an oil company"

Maybe drink it, but an expensive bit of artwork, or hire an expensive escort-girl.

" So I assume that quite a few of the people on here own a fairly decent collection of cars with medium to large engines?"

That's a very weird assumption. Personally I own a 15-year old Rangerover L322 with the 3 litre straight six diesel-burning engine, close to 300,000 km on the clock, mechanically perfect but with some accumulated battle-scars on the bodywork, about which I don't care. 'Chipped' by myself, EGR system bypassed by myself, so it runs in fact 'cleaner', and has more power.

" Hence I do question why you spend your time posting on here rather than driving your Ferrari through the vineyards of Southern Italy, Greece or Tunisia."

I reckon on doing about 22,000 km this year, going to play poker and also following the truckracing season. Why the f*** would I want to go to a Grecian vineyard? Doubt there's much fun to be found there. And if I want wine, there's a shop 50 metres from my flat which sells the stuff.

slipanchor,

"The potential window we had for the 19th-20th has now disappeared, the delay may present a buying opportunity."

You're implying that this SP is now diven by the weather forecast! That's crazy. I can understand it if we were referring to wheat crop-yields, but it ain't the case here. One week more, two weeks? Who cares? The oil's not going to wither away, nor evaporate.

thestreet,

"I love my free shares and this has been EPIC."

As no doubt do a couple of 'charities' to which Crystal Amber have donated some shares recently, a gesture immediately trumpeted on social media by that company's CEO.

Unfortunately my local bakery doesn't accept shares in Hurricane in exchange for my morning 'pains aux raisins'. I have to pay cash money. So personally, that's what I try to accumulate, not 'free shares'.

You're looking at things through the looking-glass. I've been on a 'free ride' here for over two years, having (through trading) recouped my initial investment, and now just waiting for the rest (at an average far less than current SP) to come good. Won't trade my 'long hold for the moment', though (depending on price) might buy and sell some extra for the fun and profit, according to volatility created by news.

You've seemingly got a lot to learn.

Bother! Hit send too soon, by accident! Let's start again.

BC,

"The negative is that they won't be able to sell it at this stage so it's dead in the water right now."

I don't see how you work that out. Corallian has obviously acquired qute a lot of data, even if they didn't actually run wireline logs. On that basis any potential buyer (who we can fairly safely assume to be Perenco as prime target) can decide if they want the licence. Corallian have stated for ages that they don't intend to return to the block, so I'd expect any further 'appraisal' to be simply analysis of that acquired data rather than more drilling.

BC,

"The negative is that they won't be able to sell it at this stage so it's dead in the water right now."

I don't see how you work th

Beware this 'Manwell02' poster!

He wrote:

" If they was appraising the well then a number of logs would have been ran at a minimum plus a well test, you can’t appraise a well on lwd alone."

Note the 'plus a well test' bit.

It has been said from the get-go that there would be NO DST on Colter.

"Doesn’t matter what facts I put on here as people still have to decide if they believe or not."

I will believe what I believe when an RNS is released.

This may (or may not) be of interest to other people here.

After having posted a rather lengthy reply to this person 'HeidHoncho' here, I got the following reply on the HUR board:

"ADUK, no matter, I will not be visiting that board, [ie this board: AK] it was just a general unrelated question, I am neither that interested, nor knowledgable, I was just intrigued. I just thought, gift horse, mouth, don’t look in it."

Someone to be totally ignored in future, I think. He certainly wasted my time.

JS,

"You're still using 35mm???"

I might be old, but not a dinosaur!

Two D2X's with usually the 28-70 on one, the 70-200 on the other, a 18-35 carried alongside just in case, and flashgun in my trouser pocket. Heavy stuff.

PS:

I think the revolver (a toy one) still hangs on the wall of the Bristol Caving Group's 'hut' (the most squalid place on earth imaginable) with the instructions underneath. Of course the 'Jack' was drunk long ago.

Joe,

"And to map the full underground networks for emergency teams..."

Map as hard as you like (and I've done it a lot, with much less sophisticated kit) there are some places where the only 'emergency kit' is a bottle of Jack Daniels and a loaded revolver.

Cebo,

"*asked after the meeting if the chance arose."

Yup, it'd be nice to get the story, even so!

Joe,

No, the thing I saw was a bit more than a mobile phone on a drone.

Wrt laser scanning:

" I've seen it used on the pyramids and in caves, to enable a complete model to be built (3D printer of course!)."

Who the eff would want to make a real-sized 3D model of a cave? The real things are usually bad enough already!

Cebo,

" I do wonder how open the Bod will be after the AGM if PIs raise those questions."

I remain confident that come the AGM, all these hiccups will be water under the bridge, the EPS will be producing, and that questions will be about production rates and revenue incoming, not what happened to the rope...