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ouch - those toes ARE sore this morning. indeed will the infamous '9p predicshun' go down in the annals of blogging board forecasting as the worst ever?

indeed qf, quite a few of my posts in similar vein gone over time!

yes good points and apologies i got the purchaser wrong, as you correctly identify. the report i read stated 'The purchaser is a large oil and gas company in the US with multiple exploration and production assets and has capacity to fund transactions of this nature.'

remarkable news yesterday on 88e forward selling their SoA tax credits for $18.7m. suggesting perhaps that Anchorage has signalled its intentions to recommence payment sufficiently for at least one secondary market credit fund to buy at 90c /$. does this herald interesting developments for our own Farallon situation? one poster on the Advfn board today thinks so: 'Just watch this space and be confident that if Anchorage has truly restarted - or is seriously considering it and a couple of credit funds are trying to get ahead of the decision - making tax credit arrears payments to legacy operators like Great Bear/Farallon, it's the first bit of genuinely good news for Pantheon's share price in a good while.'
looks like, today at least, the market agreed...

qf - you may have noticed he is extremely touchy about the abbreviation of his moniker (suggesting as it does a certain economy with truthfulness). best to stick with his lamentable '9p predicshun', to remind how wrong he can call things here :-)

neat post Olderwiser. the VAS does it for me too, since the Baker Hughes report is so compelling. if people wait for flow tests either from Alkaid or from Talitha#A next winter, they will have missed the boat.

well cbaron, i was just minding my own business and reminding tonynorstrom about what he'd actually said to me and there you are again out of the blue yesterday afternoon, talking about my qualifications, my career and correcting my syntax, my typos and suggesting i broaden my vocab. all a bit spooky perhaps? (sorry no verb in that one but, as you say, it's just a blogging board after all.)

you guys are just hilarious. 'interesting to note that we'd be talking about you, no real surprise there.' well cbaron, the point is there won't be any talking and btw you was asking not me! (please rest assured i have zilch interest in what you do)

tonynorstrom Thur 22.33. you are wrong on both points: you stated Alkaid being sold and i asked you why.

'..I forgot about Alkaid. However there are issues with Alkaid also - why has it not been sold yet?' 12 June19.02

'... and why on God's earth would we be selling .. Alkaid, after its successful flow test and the data from Talitha#A ?' 12 June 20.35

my question was met with dismissive arrogance - had i not been listening to the ceo? when i then asked did you mean a farm-in?, you didn't respond further.
so when you now say you meant 'farm-in', at best you're dissembling. i have come across more than a few arrogant people in my life and many of them are/were hugely intelligent and importantly also usually correct. that's scary. you on the other hand don't bother me a jot. i have no interest in taking this roadcrash of a discussion any further.

maybe just maybe, cbaron, there is some distopian parallel dimension where i get to sit down with someone like you and discuss my professional life. i think we both know though that ain't ever going to happen. sorry to disappoint.

this spat started, i believe tony, when i questioned your statement suggesting Panr were 'selling' Alkaid. your response (which displayed a catastrophic level of ignorance about this stock) suggested i hadn’t listened to what the CEO had been telling us all. so for the record and as you know, you haven't 'dealt with' the Alkaid issue as you put it. am i bovvered? not in the least and that's because i get what you're about now.

that's a pretty comprehensive wrap on tony's 'stuff', thanks Scot. i see i've had issues with him before and found his style discursive and suggestive of dissimulation. nothing he's just said makes me change my mind, so i'm not so sure facts are his friend. even now he omits to deal with the 'selling Alkaid' point. not wishing to appear rude but that's either a comprehension issue or something worse.

neat rns. all things being equal, oza 1 will be production testing and exporting oil through the existing new dedicated pipeline and facilities by mid July.

tony , if i might make a suggestion - perhaps focus on the substance of the points made against you and less on the form? in my case, to remind, that involves you substantiating your statements that Alkaid was being sold and that there were problems with that.

well Draig i wasn't exactly envisaging a criminal court as the context for my observations but, as far as you go, indeed 'no comment' doesn't per se admit guilt in that context. you fail to mention however those situations when courts will allow an adverse inference to be drawn from a defendant's silence. these tend to be where incontrovertible evidence of the defendant's guilt has already been adduced. thankfully here we are just a blogging board, so people can draw all the adverse inferences they want from a troll or whomever failing to respond sensibly to specific questions. when expressed like this, you may be able to see how ridiculous the barrack room can look from time to time.

feel free to jump in anytime Scot! as you saw, tonynorstrom failed to respond further to my challenge of his remarks about selling Alkaid. in my book that's a technical retraction. not responding to specific questions seems to be an accepted behaviour amongst some on these boards, particularly those who initiate (bad) points subsequently shown to be nonsense

just to be clear about the permit to drill Alkaid from a pad this Summer, that effectively means it can be drilled all year round. because this is right by the haul road, access for rig and associated people and equipment is easy and quick. not much drilling like this going on in Alaska during Summer and Autumn so contracting a rig quickly should not be problematic

correction : 'exploration' should read 'appraisal and production'

you mean a farm out? sure yes of course they're looking at deals to fund further exploration. but you're talking of selling Alkaid ? and there being issues with that? what are you talking about exactly?

... and why on God's earth would we be selling Greater Alkaid, after its successful flow test and the data from Talitha#A ?