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Dark_Knight,

"guys ffs stop ****ging each other off for losing money or calling it wrong... karma will come back and bite you in the ass... I can not believe sick people take great pleasure like school boy bullies in putting others down. You lot who are doing that are sick sick in the heart without any empathy and compassion. I mean don't you sad lot get out of your homes much to play so you come on here to let it all out ? Get a life FFS."

Your post is unpleasant, and brings me down. I have lost no money here, because I ain't trading a single share today. Also, I think 'calling me out' regarding writing unpleasant things about the poster who calls himself EmptyVessel is a bit the pot calling the kettle black. That person deserves all the brickbats that can be thrown at him.

As for 'get a life'? I'll wager that you haven't spent the last three days playing poker, chatting up (and becoming on first-name terms with) the drop-dead gorgeous floor manageress of the casino (though that's as far as my hopes go). and haring 200 miles at 82 mph last night in a beaten-up sixteen-year-old rangerover, listening to Steve Winwood at full blast. And then grabbing a glass of whisky at the latenight bar before coming back to the warm confines of the place I call home.

Go 'get a life' yourself. I didn't spend 37 years working on oilrigs for nothing. Kharma is what you make it.

Corral-Part,

"Based on the results of the whole campaign, I think we have a contiguous field of very light oil but of smaller size than initially thought/hoped. Not the best possible outcome but also not the worst."

Maybe the most sensible post so far this morning. But then, there's a follow-on to that sort of 'gut-feeling' thinking. Lancaster, all the 35 or so km up to Halifax...

Nice work. Spirit will be happy. Dr T will be happy they bought into GWA, but NOT into GLA. Now things might start getting really interesting.

EV,

"Easy Tiger! Easy Tiger! Tad upset are we, rule No1 of poker "Dont show your emotions"

No. Not 'upset' at all. Huge grin on my face, for assorted reasons. Bet you're not drinking beer at ten in the morning. Rule No2 of poker: 'There are no rules'.

johnpwh,

"Well, inspired by ADUKs inspirational calmness I bought back the 50k shares I sold last month BUT....
Just remember if this goes wrong I will look for you (France is quite small isn't it?), I will find you , and...… :-)
Cheer up chaps and chapesses. Suns shining even in Telford"

You're welcome to come to Niort and have a beer with me anytime!

Albi1,

Ah, at last! Someone sensible online. In other words, someone other than the smarta*** daytraders, crowing about things as they seem to be right now, stupid kids that they are.

Only reason I got out of bed and read the RNS was I'd left my shutters open (daft move), the sun is trying to make itself known, and I wanted a pee, anyway. Eaten a 'pain aux raisins' with a glass of orange juice, looked in here, big grin on my face, might even have an early-morning beer before going back to bed and sleeping 'til three.

Let the lambs bleat.

"This is a massive overreaction. This company is really not understood."

Quite correct. But 'not understood' only by people with an IQ smaller than my hat size, and who think smartphones are actually 'smart'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp9yaQS06rk

thestreet,

"EV you called this correctly Unlike the rest of us. "

EV didn't 'call' anything correctly, and please when using the word 'us' don't include me in your lowlife company.

'T'other night at the poker table I clawed my way back from a 70% loss and ended up considerably in profit. Watching this Monday-morning stuff on an AIM share ain't nearly so hard work. Big grin on my face. Because you suckers don't remember when the SP was just 12p or so.

MTV,

" adoubleuk looked into his BIG box of words but could not find any BIG enough to tell of his anger,"

Wrong again, as usual.

Just before going back to bed and sleeping 'til two or so, I'm sitting in front of my computer with a big grin on my face. What on earth makes you think I feel angry? Also, it ain't raining.

You're very obviously a person who hasn't got his sense of priorities right.

mover123,

". Its only a question of time before all of this gets monetised."

What on earth are you on about? Do you think Hurricane is GIVING AWAY those tanker-loads of oil? The word 'monetize' seems to be woefully misunderstood these days.

Mind you, by pure happenstance, and as icing on the cake, I've recently come into possession of what I believe to be Franklin D. Roosevelt's 'travelling poker set', and offers of less than half a million won't even be considered. Just need to get it DNA tested to be certain, first.

Surprised that Warwick West didn't flow more that 1500 bbl/day, but if that's not an amount to be sniffed at. Much-vaunted 'bigtime outfits' like Udog struggle to achieve a tenth of that. Definitely not trading this share today. Only woke up and read the RNS because the sun has risen, anyway. Now back to bed for a few hours' more kip. Unlike you poor suckers waiting for a train. Life is good.

thestreet,

"This well is known as a duster worthless probably cost 30 million to drill."

Utter nonsense, as usual from you.

Nice result, P&A because there's no infrastructure existing to tie into, and won't be for a while. Thereby disproving stupid rumours about Spirit / Hurricane maybe getting into bed with a debt-laden outfit like PMO. Nice work.

Bother. With all the fun I've been having over the last few days, I forgot to reply to something our resident cretin wrote, Which caught my eye, and rang a bell.

Because just for once, it isn't as cretinous as his usual stuff.

"Im afraid HUR will just bumble along endlessly hitting peaks after the good news of WW, to say 55p then drip! drip! drip! back to mid 40s after interest wains..."

Check my 'posting history'.

55p, and I'll sell 75% of my holding, whenever I wake up.

Pisces21,

All the points you make are good. I won't argue with them, other than that (per my previous post) it'd be dead simple to deploy an ROV off a PSV, and to have quarters for the four or five people necessary for the task. IF THERE IS ONE.

It was someone else who drew our attention to the HH's position and movements. Which (having checked 'marinetraffic') are certainly a bit odd.

But equally, it could all be some people offshore pulling a big joke on us, reading this BB, and laughing their socks off. At no expense to themselves. If the HHis just 'standing by' for its turn in line for backload off the rig and has gone dancing the tango over Lincoln just for the heck of it, it ain't impossible.

In fact, being something of a connoisseur of 'oilfield humour', it may be probable. 'Wind-ups' and practical jokes are fun, so long as they cause no harm.

Alfa (and others),

"Didn't someone here previously say that the pressure gauges transmitted their data via satellite link up? "

Yes. (Wasn't me, though!) I reckon it was a guess, though a logical one.

Essentially, none of us here really know. Though the HH's movements have been odd, to say the least. And it doesn't matter a whit whether she's 'ROV-equipped' or not. In shallow water like that, and with current good weather conditions, a mediume-sized ROV can be deployed off the side if a supply boat no probs. Other than the thing itself and the associated control-shack, all that's required as an 'extra' is a small cherry-picker crane.

But you never know. With people like Robert Trice, Neil Platt, and Alistair Stobie at the helm, they may have sent Herman's Hermit over Lincoln and doing 'stop-starts' just to confound exactly people like ourselves who keep track of such things! :-))

Btw (completely off-topic, but just as info for EV who seems to judge the life I lead as a bit empty) and for anyone else even vaguely curious:

Back home. Cold clear night. The drive was beautiful, 93 kph on 'cruise' all the way round Bordeaux, 133 the rest of the way. Hardly had to touch the brake pedal once. Nice 'double wink' of the indicators from two or three HGV's who noticed the 'France Routes' sticker on the back of my car. Stereo on full volume, with 'Streetwalkers Live' (tip of the hat to JK who pulled my up on my mis-spelling of Leicestershire the other day), but also stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WubwoP4l_YI Which of course can only be played at top volume.

Another 'btw', or PS. Does anyone either than myself look at their in-car computer and look at fuel consumption figures, comparing them with daytime 'quiet' use, and nighttime (with the lights on) 'loud' (stereo full blast, but only in places where it won't disturb people)? It's quite considerable. Maybe Greta Thumbsuck will start telling people like me to keep the noise down.

Oh, and a further PS, while I'm on a roll. An odd memory came back to me today, in that in certain parts of Scotland (where I lived for a while), to 'greet' means to whinge, cry, or generally self-centredly complain. In those places (Grampian region) a 'greeter' isn't someone who meets you when you've been travelling in First on BA, but something completely different. This, of course has nothing to do with anything, and just a passing thought. But while at the keyboard, back home , I thought I'd include it.

Sometimes (on rare occasions), life feels just great. And I don't need to get up early for the RNS. I'll wait 'till the mayhem dies down.

EV,

"you could end up with a Trojan horse similar to INEOS "

The only Trojan Horse around here is yourself. And nobody's opened the city's gates yet, so your soldiers hidden inside must be getting to pong a bit.

Ludicrous,

"Is it me or does it look like Hermit Horizon is currently sitting on top of the Lincoln Crestal well?"

I know your message wasn't directed at me, but no, it's not 'just you'. But she hasn't been 'just sitting' there. Instead doing a sort of erratic to-and fro in the general location. This, plus the permit submittal to DECC for the PBLJ to go to Lincoln shortly is all rather strange.

Could it have something to do with the pressure-gauges? (That's total and pure speculation on my part, the only thing I can think of, to be taken with bucketloads of salt.)

Adoubleuk, back from the casino early because he found himself not playing well, and losing, and just like in holding shares, the next best thing to winning is minimising one's losses, and about to check out of the hotel and drive back home. Ah! The motorway on a Sunday! Bliss. It'll be just me and a few others. If I step on it, the latenight bar in Niort might still be open when I get there.

SotB,

"Bull kakka = Bs"

No it doesn't. Try 'caca' instead.

Dubliner,

"It is not a debt pile it is a debt anchor..."

Running close second as 'post of the month', imho!

Today's shaping up nicely. :-)) All we need now is Slipanchor coming online to inform us that Fisheries Protection Vessel 'Giant Squid' has arrived at Lancaster to relieve tension on the Aoka Mizu's piles...

Post of the month! Cracked me up...

Klepto,

".I am amazed that you can just pull such knowledge from your head without having to resort to ‘Environmental Statement’ as your reference point like so many others who know so little and lack experience on the matter but pretend to,well done that man."

I, too, appreciate Murray604's appearance on this BB, and his posts, which are interesting. However, just out of bed and just logged in here, I don't at all like what is an obvious snide 'dig' at myself on your part.

In posts passim, I've simply mentioned the EIS document as an in-house reference point. But I DO know about that of which I write, even if generally in a slightly different context. Because the technology for driving subsea anchor-piles is exactly the same as that for driving oilwell 'conductor-pipe, or the fixation piles for offshore platforms. A very noisy and potentially dangerous sort of operation, where you spend the day wearing both earplugs and ear-defenders at the same time, and the ground is shaking. Heavy Metal? Big pile-driving makes an Iron Maiden concert seem like an infant's bedtime lullaby.

I was present and directly participated in the driving of all the conductor pipes on Conoco's (now decomissioned and dismantled) Murchison platform, back in 1981. Check the crewlist, if there's still a record of it somewhere. Was on Agip's 'Barbara E' platform in the Adriatic as Driller when the jacket for 'Barbara F' was being 'piled', in 1987. A kilometer away from where we were drilling, but the vibrations were playing hell with some of our instrumentation. Very baroque. Those things were happening quite possibly before you were out of primary school. And I can't be bothered to try counting how many other wells both on and offshore I've been on where we drove conductor.

Waking up to read your slimy little doubt-casting message almost put me in a bad mood for the day, but fortunately hasn't succeeded. Because the rain's stopped at last, the sun is shining, and that means I can have my hotel window wide open and smoke in my room without setting off the alarm. So can slowly come awake with a smile, and the poker game starts at five this evening instead of nine, so I have to be feeling bright, in a hurry.

Take good care of yourself, now. I'm sure you'll be back during the week, advising us what to do with our shares.

persimmon,

"why then were RBD waiting for ages for The business minister to ok Colter?"

Because Colter had other 'sideline' ramifications, such as environmental protest-groups' objections, and stupid stuff like that. Things which might 'cost votes', which is all politicians are really interested in.

I am glad that other posters here and elsewhere have provided more precise information (of which I was previously unaware) regarding OGA's position in the event of 'default' situations. It reassures me. My original posts on the subject of potential legal hold-ups weren't meant in a scaremongering way. But the result is now we're getting a little bit more clarification, which is good.

Nevertheless I still think it's a bit of a shame that such clarification is coming via discussion and information provided by people on BB's, rather than the company itself providing such keeping us updated.

Jiffy,

"Look what you have sown SG2 !!, an Anchor is an Anchor is it not!"

Except when it's a pile...

Good to see the nighshift keeping its habitual hours...

Adoubleuk (just back from another profitable night at the casino).