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The Guardian,

"I'm posting here because everyone on ADFN appears to have switched off their laptops."

I supect the shipwatchers on advfn have been watching going's-on, and have been keeping quiet, just like on this BB!

Should we synchronise watches?

SIPP,

Writing at same time! You must have been following this as well...

After some very strange manoeuvers today, the AM is suddenly heading east (though still about 10 miles WEST ????) of Lancaster with destination Cromarty.

Go figure. I can't.

MUAS,

"Yesterday and todays activity by the FPSO smells strongly like Heath and Safety Procedures i.e. hook up/unhook no doubt fire drills,lifeboat drills,man/woman overboard drills"

I beg to differ with you in some respects. Latch / unlatch is a question mark, but makes some technical sense. But things like drills will have been ongoing, and a chopper landed on the helideck during that brief stopover off Montrose, so it's safe to assume all's hunky-dory in that respect.

Or maybe it was just a 'trial run'. I dunno. Going to bed. Made a few bob, tomorrow's another day.

Wulbert,

No.

dspp,

"It looks to me (using marinetraffic.com) like she has unlatched. Which sounds to me like they are checking that they can disconnect if necessary. Which sounds to me like part of the commissioning procedures one would expect. At least if I was writing them that is one that I would insist on being demonstrated. There may be other valid reasons, but that is my starter for 10."

That sounds OK to me! Checking all systems work. Belt & braces thinking, but Rona Ridge ain't the N.Sea, so why not?

Or at least, let's hope that's what all this manoevering is all about.

But the fact she's still going back to the earlier 'stopped' position is good.

Nice nail-biting stuff!

AK

JayKay,

" I've got her backing up circa 500m in a roughly NE direction!"

No sweat. That 'stopped' position before (for some hours) ws probably to 'snag' the buoy. I recall WessexMario writing here about the most probable way that would be done. And the 'move back' was fairly fast, and now she's 'stopped' again'.

Oh dear. This all slightly reminds me of 2010 when I had two laptops running of my kitchen table with live ROV video feeds of the Macondo wellhead, and there were on occasions six feeds to choose from. Some of it nail-biting stuff keeping me up all night, some of it not nail-biting, but stayed up all night anyway.

This is entirely different, so one more look at the AIS and I'm going to switch to an online poker game instead!

Though when that's over, I'll check the AIS again before going to bed!

Wellwell,

"A special flight might have no passengers and only a part or parts."

Like a new buoy, for instance?

Behave yourself.

A 'special' is simply one not booked days beforehand, simply because timings weren't known.

DBB,

"I noticed that JK. I was also trying to figure out how far that movement north-east actually is. Can it be figured out from the co-ordinates at top right of the screen?"

To quote Nick Nolte, hero in one of my favorite movies, '48 Hours', "I can see this is going to be a f****** long night"...

DBB,

"Would 'swivelling' even show on the likes of marinetraffic.com I have been wondering?"

Dunno!

DC,

" However they may be deliberately delaying the change to avoid giving a clear signal."

Yup, I thought of that, and agree entirely.

Any RNS will have been probably written beforehand, anyway. I won't lose sleep if there isn't one tomorrow, because I feel a 'successful hookup' will also have to include full rotational tests of the turret, and so on. Make sure the 'uncomplicated' part is done.

But looking good.

JoeBass,

"Always dyor, these individuals are both reckless and dangerous to follow."

Now you're making things personal as regards SIPPn00B, which I think is uncalled-for, and thus degrades your own opinion in the eyes of others. Because the first bit about 'always dyor' is primordial, and anyone who doesn't do that is guaranteed to lose money.

But I'd like to add another bit. 'Follow your own instincts'. That's not a bad idea, either.

In October, for some still incomprehensible reason (or at least I still don't understand it), the SP went north of 55p. And then degraded steadily downwards, hitting almost 37.

Now I'm an LTH here, but occasionally 'trade' when I see an opportunity. Kicked myself for seeing that 55+p as a selling opportunity. But I didn't. But the low was dam obvious and just as inexplicable. But I wasn't going to miss that! So shook the (depleted) piggy-bank, and made a small top-up at 38.5, knowing it just COULDN'T stay that way too long. With a resolve to sell that top-up at 45p, without touching my 'main holding'.

Held steady the last few days, gritting my teeth. 'Shipwatched' yesterday once the boat headed north. Imagine my delight today seeing the SP just over 47. Straight onto the 'net, sold my topup for 47.3, before even on my second cup of coffee.

Sure, the SP might skyrocket on the 'hookup RNS', but there again it might go the other way. No regrets, either way.

Easiest couple of grand (or so) I've made in my life. So I'm having a glass of wine to celebrate.

Of course, I'm just an out-to-pasture destitute old oilman, and a poster here had the temerity the other day of libelously accusing me of being an alcoholic and a 'hopeless gambler'. So don't take this as any sort of advice.

But sometimes you CAN beat the 'pros' (or the computers they program) at their own game.

IF you 'dyor' and follow your instincts.

DC,

"Looks very much like hook up has been achieved today. "

Let's hope so. The AM's 'been in place' for a number of hours now.

I had a thought, regarding the AIS. When the boat's actually been moving, it's flagged status was 'underway using engines'. This must surely be a deliberate AIS input by someone, probably those on the bridge. As distinct from 'under tow', or whatever. It remained that way for a bit, but then changed to 'stopped', which is how it's remained, and which I also take to be a manually-inputted 'status'. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it, but it'll be interesting to see tomorrow if it says 'anchored', 'moored', or anything like that.

Assuming we don't get word of it by RNS anyway!

Cpel1,

"Wouldn’t surprise me if it was folk from bp and shell having a look at the new project "

What, the extra chopper? You've got to be joking! Things don't work like that, at all. Bob Dudley might get an invitation to the FoiL party, but that'll be it.

Snail,

" I looked great in my spats and top hat :)"

Is that your Marlene Dietrich look?

The boat heading at top speed for the field, with the safety -boat alongside, like an obedient lamb, with no course-change indicating going to Lerwick yet.

OK, it could be for 'reconnaissance', but nevertheless...

Another bit for Nigwit

(Which he probably won't read),

"We don’t know what Kerogen will sell for and should not presume anything (this may limit the upside and weight against the investment case)."

What on earth makes you think Kerogen will sell? Instead of buying up other investors' shares at offer price and taking control, themselves, but leaving Hurricane in contol of business / operational aspects?

You underestimate the Chinese connection.

Nigwit has said this:

"Here in a nutshell what I’ve said about Hurricane Energy"

OK, Nigwit has filtered me. So he won't read this. (Though I feel sure someone will pass it on to him.)

He knows Jack about the oil biz.

He loves bringing up the name of Crystal Amber (admittedly still a major shareholder and without whose initial aid Hurricane might not have got off the ground at IPO. But a company which is solely interested in itself, has publicly badmouthed 'our' company in shameful ways in the past, and whose (still unavoidable) presence is detremental to PI's.

Crystal Amber (as an investment company) knows nothing about the oil biz, neither, which is why their CEO gets sore when the BoD don't do things the way he'd like.

Nigwit's post continues with his own views regarding potential reservoir performance, etc., with utterly no professional backup to his opinions.

Has posted here recently about 'alternative energy', stuff like that, and now says "Oil is becoming a less fashionable investment so holders should be realistic about future valuations."

Well there are sayings about sticking things where the sun doesn't shine. But our boat's very close to home now. And it didn't get there by solar power (except in the sense that all energy resources on this planet are due to the beneficial light of our local star, about which this planet orbits.)

And finally, I don't like being told what to invest my money in nor how, by people on BB's, with an agenda.

There was a record-breaking AIM-market O&G fundraise for this 'experiment'. Now it's almost started. Except it's the 'big-time experiment'. A 15,000 bbl/day DST (with no water-cut and constrained by surface test equipment) doesn't lie.

To paraphrase DR T, "give up arguing with these people". It's just not worth the bother.