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Albi1,

"So Hurricane appears to be listed both on AIM and on NEX. But I don't really understand why given the additional costs that would be involved. Why?"

Does a company actually pay to be listed on NEX? (Whatever NEX may be.)

Genuine question.

Shhh,

" Best part for you guys is, if I'm wrong I'll look a bigger idiot than I already am. Well in your eyes anyway."

Duly noted, for future reference.

My advice to you as a 'newbie shipwatcher' is to sit, watch, wait, and be patient. Nothing anyone writes here will speed things up, nor affect the outcome. And whatever the outcome might be, it seems almost painfully obvious that we won't get any 'official' news before closing bell tomorrow, barring some sort of miracle.

Personally I very strongly feel that your theorising about some sort of 'assist' in the latch-up by another vessel is downright wrong. But wouldn't dismiss the possibility of another vessel's presence, possibly running an ROV to get full underwater video of the operation. But all the AIS shows us is where the boats are, not what they're doing.

slipanchor,

"The AM has just altered the course NW to Lancaster."

Could the pig be going to look for a poke to slip into?

Albi1,

"Please, when you've finished poking pigs and what not, can someone answer my earlier NEX/LSE question posted what seem like a few aeons ago now."

I can't answer it, I'm afraid, but thank you for having raised the question. Which I've researched a little bit, off and on, since you asked it. Because I DO think it's relevent to this BB, and share.

The thing being, I haven't yet got a firm handle on what NEX actually is. There was once a NEX stock exchange (of sorts) run out of Montenegro, but it ceased to exist as a legal entity six years ago. The current thing (from what I can ascertain) is some sort of 'virtual exchange', linked to some cryptocurrencies outfit.

So interesting, but puzzling.

Maybe some others would like to comment...

ReachForTheSky,

Yes, it's an excellent read, isn't it?

I tend to compare Dr Trice with a couple of other people, as well. Whittle (inventor of the jet aircraft engine), poo-poohed by his peers and burocracy, but then...

And of course our modern-day Sir James Dyson. His autobiography 'Against the Odds' (ghost-written by Giles Coren) is a fascinating book, and the 'business' side of things (Dyson's battles with Hoover and the like, getting a lucky break from the most unlikely of quarters), are quite uncannily similar to the 'Hurricane Story' (ongoing).

Btw, I followed up the Dambusters reading with another: 'Return of the Dambusters (What 617 squadron did next)' by John Nichol. (pub Collins) I'm sure you'll enjoy that one, as well.

Wellwell,

"as usual you miss my point, and SlipAnchors. He doesn't really think it's a pig in a poke, although it may be. "

Ah. Thank you for clarifying things. I guess I shall now have to treat my investment with caution, just in case the FPSO actually does turn out to be a 'pig in a poke'.

PS I'm sure Slipanchor must be glad to have you acting as his spokesperson, given that he hasn't himself reverted on the subject.

Wellwell,

"I’ll repeat what I said a few weeks ago….."don’t listen to anything coming from someone with a background in onshore driller, when stated as fact in relation to marine operations"

Sorry, but you forgot offshore as well: semis, jackups and platforms. No drillships, I must admit. Plenty of deepwater tows involved, as well, rather to the Drilling Contractors' surprise.

Anyhow, have it your own way. If you like to 'side' with someone who intimates that the Aoka Mizu may be a 'pig in a poke', that's your problem, not mine. It's simply that I don't believe she is.

tinlode,

" slipanchor, You sound as if you come from a completely different marine world to the one I worked in."

Utterly agree.

'Tech discussion' here is one thing, varous disagreeements occuring, but they're just details. But doubting the capability of the FPSO as 'slipanchor' did is just over-the-top daft.

Unfortunately (if he hasn't already realised it) it diminishes the validity of any further posts he might make here. Thats the way it works;

slipanchor,

" As for New World and Bluewater, we have had delays and repairs every step of the voyage from Dubai to Cromarty so there are some questions to answer."

OK, name them, please.

The company has always guided FOIL within timings.H1 2019. So far all 'milestones' have been ticked off per timings.

I'm sure that if you can pinpoint any 'delays', I'm sure we'd be delighted to know about them.

Genghis,

It's rare that I reply to one of your posts. but you say

"PoO will determine if t is worth anything!"

I refuse to subscribe to this. Unless you're talking very long term. But shorter-term and considered to be a 'marketable commodity', although Hurricane's assets may once in production becone closer-linked to POO on that market, immediate availability, geographical location, and so on, cannot be discounted.

slipanchor,

And anyway, whatever I may have written way back when about Rotterdam, whether right or wrong, is all in the past.

However, I'll quote your far more recent thing again:

"Now showing stopped in the main shipping lane hope we haven't hired a pig in a poke."

Underlining your 'pig in a poke' thing.

You've got something paranoid and weirdly wrong in your brain, man. Do you think the Aoka Mizu is something picked up at Poundshop? Are you mistaking Doctor Trice for Jeremy Corbyn?

Grow up.

slipanchor,

"PS
The AM did actually depart the same evening you posted the message."

Which message?

slipanchor,

"AD
Rotterdam can accommodate tankers up to 500.000 ton and has 100.000-ton vessels navigating the waterways 24/7so if the port authority gives you such information he must have been taking the Mickael."

You obviously weren't keeping up with where the AM was berthed, nor correspondence related.

Lady Sonia,

" from this BB and the tone of some of the articles I've read it seems there is a bit of a love/hate relationship with the OGA with respect to the Gas flaring, some of the drilling constraints, being hindrances, but some of the support and backing appearing to promote HUR and FB?"

I don't think there's a love/ hate with OGA. In fact, since the inception of OGA, things seem to be going better, in regards mutual interest, advancing things, and so on.

The real troublemakers are the politicians, the 'environmental people' (putting up windfarms which causes boats to now have navigational difficulties getting out of the Moray Firth these days, and their decks festooned with dead gannets), and so on.

I don't know if those of us still supporting O&G are correct.

But if the alternative prevails, I'll top myself, because that's the sort of asylum I won't want to live in.

Lady Sonia,

"This may seem like a silly question, but bear with me..."

There is only one silly question, and that's the one which remains unasked.

"Will the AM be fuelled up now to last until the first tanker arrives?"

Maybe. Personally I don't know, so cannot answer that.

"If so, might the first "tanker" actually bringing fuel ONTO the AM rather than offloading?
I'm also guessing the AM can't keep everything running from the 38 API and gas from the 2 wells?"

Those are two, questions running into one, and thus terribly muddled-up. To one part there's a definite 'no' answer. If the FPSO needs refuelling with fuel-oil, it won't come from an offload tanker. Completely different systems. However, on the other bit, YES, part of 'commissioning' will involve the vessel becoming 'self-sufficient', with the power generation coming from the GT's rather than from the Wartsillas. So the answer to the second convoluted part is that your assumption is wrong. In fact, that's the problem: they have to flare gas in excess to the power-requirements of the boat, production-train, and so on.

Just a weeny-little single 3000 bbl/day thing of Lancaster quality would keep the FPSO happily ticking over for nothing, no probs.

Don't worry about that sort of thing. The amount going out of the flare-stack in a day would be enough to keep your neighbourhood warm for a year. Or if compressed, and your car ran on LPG, keep you on the road for ages. It's a shame: the energy-wastage involved is extraordinary. But just part of the course. Until the pipeline gets installed, that is.

slipanchor,

"if she is now such a seaworthy vessel why were some quoting she was waiting on a weather window in Rotterdam"

They were wrong.

" and why with all the up to date navigation technology was she unable to sail in the dark."

Not 'unable'. It was a port authority decision in conjunction with Bluewater. It's a big vessel. Better to have done that in daylight.

SotB,

"Supply boats provide fuel food and provisions."

And ermmm.... equipment needed? (Though of course an FPSO doesn't need constant offload backload of equipment, like a drilling rig.)

But let's not forget common-or garden things like garbage-skips.

They also provide a good means of passing the time, leaning on the handrails, watching them being offloaded and backloaded by the crane. That shouldn't be forgotten.

Biffa,

Can't help reverting to your earlier post where you said

"Hopefully, we can avoid the tirade of misinformation we got from you last time, should there not be an obvious hook up over the next few days."

It got 12 'recommendation' thumbs-ups, whereas my reasoned response only got one or two. So I'm jealous.

But coulndn't help noticing the timings: middle of the day.

Hope that this time, the hook-up (the real one, hopefully) will go on beyond Starbuck's hour.

Biffa,

'Simultaneous posting'!

slipanchor,

"The AM has just left the shelter of a safe anchorage but the skipper has decided to go out into the Atlantic in gale force wind just to have a dawdle. "

Incorrect. The boat left Cromarty anchorage to get a 'jump' on a potential weather-window, and once at sea with space to play with, perform some DP-system checks. Seemingly, though it's all through accumulated information, none of which can be called 'official'. I however have no doubt that if such checks had flagged a 'problem', she'd have gone back to 'shelter', but instead she's headed north.

And is currently in an open-sea area and relatively 'sheltered, nevertheless.

Given that she'll be riding out some far more serious stuff over the next six years than a piddly Force Seven gale, I don't think the boat nor ther crew will be too inconvenienced by bobbing around for 36 hours.

Plus being in Cromarty anchorage COSTS MONEY. More than their fuel costs out at sea. There is way on the vessel: what more do you want?

Your 'possible pig in a poke' comment was utterly stupid, to my mind. These guys know what they're doing. WE might not know what they're doing 80% of the time, that's true, so we have to 'theorise' (cf posts passim), but 'nevertheless...

She's NOT 'sitting in a main shipping lane', for the simple reason it isn't. And her presence will be standing out (on AIS, radar, and visually) like the Eiffel Tower.

What are you worried about?