CEO19 Dec 2023 12:07
What about this scenario ? Our new CEO, (only been in post 4 months) looked at the offer/JV that Art (the less said about him the better) had been working on and thought hang on this just isn`t good enough. If the JV partner won`t improve their offer then it wouldn`t be fair to the company and shareholders to accept. So after 3/4 months he rejected it. (After all in a negotiation do you ever accept anyones first offer ?) No doubt some party will be back with a buy out/JV and at least AM will have nothing to do with it.
Also the fact that someone like Exxon are even interested shows we have some type of valuable commodity that can be commercialised.
Also and we are about to see whether this is true , can we go some way along the road in whatever way and be self sufficient to some degree and get up to 2000 and 2500 bopd.
The CEO has realised that he cannot just say the JV is off which is why we will get an update shortly as he has to replace this bad news with a sweetner. However as usual saying and doing are two different things.
Re production figures, this is a real bugbear for me. They know probably by the hour how much oil is being pumped. Being honest and upfront these figures should be announced every month at month end, end of, for good or bad.
A real priority and I don`t mean this either just because most of us are shareholders but out of respect for the companies standing, reputation, future investment, must be the restoration of the SP . Anyone looking at the SP graph would realise what a joke this company has been this year.
So CEO, two things a decent RNS this week or next. A plan to restore the SP to a decent level, firstly 5p then 15p. Then proper monthly/bi monthly detailed RNS`s keeping us abreast of actual achieved progress especially in bopd. Its not f****** difficult , we`ve got plenty going for us we just need to capitalise on it !!!