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Doc Brucee, " I am normally interested to read your posts. Whilst your last one was diected at BNB the bottom half of your last one needs, for me at least, to be decoded back into English for a non-oilie to understand." Sorry, that would take time (which I have plenty of) but also space, which is limited here! Yes, oilpatch drilling 'tech talk' is a sort of incomprehensible foreign language to most people, but essentially all I was doing was explaining to BNB that I felt his earlier post was slightly over-simplifying things, and why. The thing being, although the recompletions are nothing operationally exceptional, it's not 'simple' work, and therefore nobody should be surprised if they take time. Hurricane wouldn't have booked the rig for 60 days if they didn't think the completions may take that up, including contingencies, of course. By the way, and wrt BNB's pseudonym, it has nothing to do with ladies' anatomy, nor anything like that. A 'Bell Nipple' is a sort of tube just below the rigfloor, with an outlet out of which drilling fluid returning from the well re-enters the surface processing system. That's how I knew he'd understand what I was writing about!

yuyus, "I can appreciate secrecy is necessary in some instances but irrespective when we are paying for rig be it last Anchor ran , riser ran / BOPs it should be made known" I agree with you. The recompletions are a 'milestone' on the way to FoiL, and one which involves significant capital outlay once started, both Capex and Opex, capital which was raised by investors of all colours at the major placing last year. I was surprised that there was no RNS when the rig was mobilised from Shaw, but maybe there'll be one tomorrow, as the stack ought to be down, latched onto the well, and tested by now if all's gone smoothly. Mind you, now I come to think of it, they'll also have to hook up the control umbilicals to the tree� and test a number of those functions as well, so it's not as simple and quick as all that. If no RNS soon, it'll be an odd divergence from the 'news-friendliness' the company has been exhibiting since the middle of last year. It must be remembered that although it's impossible to keep the rig's presence on Lancaster 'secret', not all investors read BB's like this, nor are they neccessarily 'shipwatchers' themselves.

BnB, Not sure where your info is coming from, but thanks. Your 'pseudo' indicates you're 'industry', but I beware Chinese whispers. " the well protection also on the way over" The trees are now in place, which includes 'well protection' . " unsure how the pblj is doing but should have already had a look at 21a-6" My co-ordinates have her over 7-z. Though the two wells are only 30m apart... " hopefully both require minimal cleaning up " What's the 'hopefully' word doing in here? Others here have already had their word on this, which I agree with. Look at their posts. Essentially 'recompletion' is 'workover'. There will be no 'cleanup' to the extent of re-entering the openhole, because there's already a production packer / tailpipe assembly in place in the heel section before the horizontal section. Nevertheless once having pulled the existing temp abandonment 'kill string', they'll have to do a run to the PP (maybe with a scraper), and circulate out the old fluid with new. Plus it strikes me as possible if not probable that there's a plug latched in the PP / tailpipe assy which will require retrieval, and given the angle, it won't be with slickline. And that's all before running the dual ESP completion. And then, once that's been done, then comes 'cleanup' proper, hopefully, at which point anyone WoS close by might see a flare.

DiveCentre, " Lerwick was not mentioned in the RNS announcing Dubai sailaway so I'm not sure where they got this from unless they have been in touch with HUR." 'Handover' of the buoy in Lerwick has been mentioned in at least one past company document, either an RNS or a presentation. Sorry, I don't have the exact reference for now.

Today's dominant thread header seems to be 'Strange', on the subject of the SP. But what I find stranger is that there's been no RNS about the rigmove. The PBLJ is definitely on location now, and the anchor-handlers have departed.

I've no guesses as the reason behind this dip. But have just looked at the 3 month graph, and really it's just a little 'wobble'. A blip. I think it'd be unrealistic to expect the SP to just rise continuously day by day without minor moments of 'consolidation' or retrace. Nowt to worry about in my opinion.

Got any for sale at that price? I'll buy a gardenshedful of em! :-))

pijoe, "so zennor and kerogen connection made on this BB.!.(was by me some long time back!)" Balls.

Wellwell, " HUR could be worth billions by then." Each to their own view. But mine is that Hurricane will never become a new BP who 'farms into' other peoples' stuff. Instead something keeping to its founders' roots, said founders having made a few millions for themselves, and some of their shareholders doing the same at the same time.! Hurricane doesn't hold a monopoly nor a patent on 'fractured basement', remember.

wellwell, "I'm sure HUR could farm in at a later date." Behave yourself. Farm into what? Old stuff which now needs looking at 'deeper'? The things which Bob Dudley might be wondering about? I don't see Hurricane evr 'farming in' to anyone else's stuff ever. Why become a tenant when your already a landlord? You're forgetting one simple human factor. Bob Trice and certain members of the HUR BoD are significant shareholders in their own company, and they aren't fools. They've got things extremely nicely under control, as well, with people coming to their 'dataroom', not the other way round. Won't happen. This is now a waiting game, and if me and my imaginary cat have to eat newspaper until FoiL happens, well that's the way it'll have to be. So I can still afford diesel to go truck-racing and playing poker.

Oh yeah, by 'coincidence' Zennor and Hurricane are sharing the same rig and boats for the upcoming year or so. 2+2 sometimes makes 4.

pijoe, "i was interested if kero would push for more.." Zennor have grabbed more acreage. Zennor's major shareholder is Kerogen.

pijoe, "so no new blocks for hur. in the WoS i think they got the lot already? i think so! What i was interested in was some in the central / northern NS. i am sure holders far more focused than me on hur can post the links to some historic papers Doc T has published about basement on UK waters other than WoS.." No, people wanting to look for the 'history' can do their own bl***y research on the company website! But yes, of course there's stuff about FB in N.Irish Sea Atlantic margin, as well as C.North Sea. But why would Hurricane have any interest in them? They've got quite enough already for their lifetimes, thanks, is probably their way of thinking. In the last round they allowed themselves to have all the GLA / GWA 'corralled' by Shell et al without batting an eyelid. For what seems to be an obvious reason, that being that they've managed to grab the 'mother-lode' already, and got it nicely staked out. Not to mention all the rest of the Rona Ridge up to and including Halifax, which was done 'off-round' somehow! Quite enough to be getting on with for the moment.

Thanks for the link, Wellwell. An excerpt: "The activity will provide plenty of opportunities for those who like to track vessel movements. " Wow. A broker recognises the existance of 'shipwatchers' and doesn't even brand us as lunatics!

pijoe, "I wonder what the 30th round outcome got Hur will be if any." No new blocks for Hurricane, though we've got no reason to think they were bidding on any further blocks, of course. Here's the link in case anyone's interested. https://www.ogauthority.co.uk/media/4881/30th-round-table-of-potential-awards-by-block-may-2018.pdf

pijoe, "Ad- is that a real job Hur are advertising?" What, 'Executive Director for Motorcycling on the FPSO helideck' ? I suspect not, but a lot of people run round helidecks for exercise, so why not have motorbike races as well ? Probably wouldn't be sanctioned by HSE these days, but (excuse waay O/T, everyone) I've seen some strange things done on helidecks. Offshore Dubai in 1993 the Company Man of the rig I was on happened to be a golf nut, and he was pals with one of the supply-boat skippers, so he had a golf club with him on the rig, and whenever that boat arrived there was a parcel of a hundred or so golf balls for him. Which he'd proceed to drive off the helideck and onto the supply-boat's deck if it was clear. And he had a radio with him with which to remain in contact with the skipper, suggesting where to position the vessel ! And there was fun on the Montrose Alpha in late summer 1982, my boss the Driller taking time out to shoot at seagulls with an Uzi submachine gun. Courtesy of the SBS, who were onboard for a few days along with various other military units doing an 'antiterrorist' exercise. For some reason (and against all regulations) those SBS nutters (their own term: interesting people to talk with) had come aboard with some live ammunition... But they were just back from the Falklands, so it probably just felt normal. And the Driller was a gun-freak, when that was still legal and acceptable in Britain. Happy days... Couldn't happen now, probably. Oh, and there was the time (1979) someone flew an inflatable sex doll filled with divers' helium of the crown block of a rig I won't name the day the company President and VP (won't name the company either) came out to visit, with their wives as well. That took some pre-planning, and there was hell to pay afterwards. But the conspirators (and perperators) were never actually identified, though, so nobody lost their jobs. (A solid, tight-knit crew.) The chopper pilot was heard to say in the mess-room during the visit that he had had trouble landing, however, because both he and his co-pilot were laughing so much...

Cebo, "RNS That the piles are completed" Not sure we'll see an RNS about that... Could be proved wrong, though.

Cebo, "RNS stating that PIJoe has given up waiting for his 30p entry and has bought back in at 50p and now is holding above the 3% threshold." Got to admit that made me laugh! The 'Pijoe for Chairman' campaign having failed, his coming in as a major shareholder and thus making a 'sideways run' for a position on the BoD as 'Executive Director in charge of Motorcycling on the Helideck of the FPSO' shouldn't be ruled out...

All busy-busy out there in the field. Anchor-handlers laying the picks, and the Skandi Feistein (left ABR yesterday morning) standing off, waiting here turn to unload whatever she's brought. No time being wasted, obviously. Nice to see.

WT "Happy days!" Yup, back in business. 'Sell in May, buy back on St Leger's Day'? Anyone applying such thinking to this little operation needs his or her head examined...