Parta Commitments8 Sep 2020 17:56
Looking at the ADX website again, when they were awarded the licence to the Parta area of 1221 square KM in 2011, they were committed under that provision to undertake certain activites. This is common where licences are awarded of course.
They needed to reprocess some existing seismic, drill 2 wells and then acquire 100km of new 2 and 3D seismic.
I don't know about the reprocessing but the wells we know about and the 2D was to be in the Parta Sole Risk area, nothing to do with Tamaska's commitment to 3D. So today's news is only to do with that 3D commitment. This was a way of getting one of the necessary jobs done and paying for it by handing over 50% of the rights to the wider area, not the Sole Risk area where the current drill are located. I am assuming once 1 and 2 are done they will look at that new 2D seismic.
It has obviously ****ed off the ADX management no end as they thought they had a deal. I expect they will be seriously considering some regress. But none of this has any financial implication for RBD. It is a pain, as it is a distraction for ADX's management. It may conversely offer a new opportunity for RBD further on.
ADX mention 11 existing targets but it would definitely be good to get drills 1 and 2 flowing first and understand the data from those. I do wonder whether ADX can be accused of taking their eye off the ball but if Tamaska /PE were saying all was fine then how would they know.
Of much more immediate concern it the outcome of the acidisation process to IMIC-1 which should have commenced.... and of much much more concern than that is the outcome of the WN-B1 drill... what's that I can see over the ridge? is it a rig......