Member Info for BradSmith

You don't even remember your own recent posts moagi!

We know what you think , and that error is what prompted my research so please do not answer my posts hile I'm am trying to converse with people who do remember what they claim.

"Bear in mind, Orapa plant is owned by Govt. I would be very confident there is no provision in Budget expenditire for such plant repair costs, so even if Govt was prepared to pay for this, the process to identify cost and get them approved will be tediously long."

AA have 50% or 42.75% from the link but which? I am not asking you! And why? ditto!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P9HcWMPey-iYNs9H-6WsiUyoOGXLrSuW/view?usp=sharing

Does anyone understand the content of the above link?
I thought I raised this a while ago but don't recall a response.

Anglo-American appear to own 85% , and the Govt 15%, of De Beers
Debswana own Orapa outright 100%.
AA and BG each own 50% of Debswana i.e. 50% of Orapa each?

Research shows
"De Beers Group is an international corporation that specialises in diamond mining, diamond exploitation, diamond retail, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. The company is active in open-pit, large-scale alluvial and coastal. It operates in 35 countries and mining takes place in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Canada and Australia."

and in Botswana
"Diamonds from Botswana were considered valuable enough to give the government of the country a 15 percent share in De Beers in 1969. All rough-diamond mining and distributing is done by Debswana, making it the biggest non-government employer in the country. The deal is still in place today, and there's even talk of increasing Botswana's share to 25 percent."

I think this infers that AA also have 15% of De Beers in Botswana alone, but also own 70% of De Beers projects elsewhere.

I remember mentioning AA and getting an SXX related responses now!

So the Govt are not entirely responsible for the tender and AA would have to join moagi's ever increasing list of idiots for him to be anywhere near right, imho for the first time ever!

The 25% mentioned blows my mind - that must be defunct now with De Beers losing control afaics.

Appi, you should have asked OB if you wanted a sensible answer :O)

I had the same question after he told me the invaluable fact that the Orapa tender and presumably the RFP tender are different.

We know what he thinks the TLOU board are not fit to change his nappy , but now he seems to suggest the Orapa board are their equal. Putting out a tender to power dysfunctional power plant would be remarkable. But who knows during a civil war, military coups etc.

I found this
"Various factors influence the decision to retire a power plant. For example, the coal power plants retired since 2008 were relatively old and small, averaging 52 years and 105 megawatts (MW), compared with the fleet of coal plants still operating, at 39 years and 319 MW."

so there is a good chance that Orapa expect 2 x 45MW will be OK for long enough?
The savings in diesel costs and the reliability they can expect from home-grown gas will pay for new plant one day no doubt.

I hear you Whizzer, and as an investor with both my IG accounts below the threshold for free custodial charges I share your pain. Ig have waived the charges for this quarter but I cannot expect them to do this perpetually. I should have sold all my holdings in the nominee account but ironically I am not sure if I could do that with my options in place.

If the price matters to you Whizz what price are ready to sell at? If, as I suspect, you don't have a price in mind then it really does matter does it? The difference between us is that I am not prepared to criticise a board that is almost certainly more frustrated than us at the lack of progress.

This is completely different to the Request For Proposal fiasco!
That insisted on contractors supplying Botswana with CBM , still an impossibility 5 years on!

This one, maybe conveniently for TLOU, looks happy to see any previous CBM successes and TG has that at Arrow and Sunshine. Plus his petroleum experience which won't do him any harm!

The share price is immaterial Whizzer. All that matters is that it fluctuates continually so the sharks can trade it.

They don't care whether 500k shares make them the same profit as 5k shares at much higher prices!

Once we get good news and the the only way is UP they'll have to decide if they become holders on an ascending asset or go and find another volatile stock.

LTH don't care, unless they average down, the ceiling for the first consistent rise is all that interests us.

I wonder if TG has asked Orapa to fund the pipeline :0) - or even more? 3 weeks is not a huge delay!

I guess MM and I think TG qualifies, despite his experience being in Australia.
Others are qualified but do they have CBM reserves within range of Orapa?????

I hope MM is on the right track and the date of an imminent PPA is the reason for the extension.

But more importantly (perhaps) is my rat repoort!
The mixer bag they were visiting, with topped up mixer from Poppy's live supply , embedded in my flour,sugar and baking soda mix , is still as it was 2 days ago, and I haven't heard scratching and Poppy has not barked and chased down the hallway! Fingers crossed.

£240 for the rat man , or 65p pot of bicarb (200g of which 3g is enough to kill a rat) plus some flour and sugar to disguise the soda has to be the buy of the century!

Skip the ad after 5 seconds, but please tick these guys if you like the message! I followed the one on the left , no water just dust .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB9gDMFAqWs&t=435s

It is exactly that , from this EOL in December. Why didn't you share the extension news MM?

"The Botswana Power Corporation herby invites eligible competent and experienced service providers to indicate their interest in providing natural gas for the Orapa Facility. Only companies with a track record and proven natural gas supply experience in gas turbines operated on natural gas may respond to this EoI by providing detailed company profiles, a clear statement of experience with a list of references, a list of gas turbine projects for which the company has provided natural gas and brochures. Interested companies are required to further provide references from previously executed similar assignments and contact details for such clients. "

I'll be out just as soon as I lose trust in TG.
I used to claim to be agnostic but deep down I knew nobody could convince me there is a God, so was I an agnostic or an atheist?
So far TG has always satisfied me that he is on course.
He was hampered by Govt incompetency during RFP1, then by a general election during RFP2 , then by too much water at Lesedi, and then the biggy, Covid. If I saw how he could have changed the history of that list, I'd be unhappy, but I reckon little of that was foreseeable, apart from the elections and what could he do about them?

I got out of Sirius before the final coup, btw!

We have not agreed on many things, MFM, over the years.
To my mind you are 100% defining loyalty, sticking with one wife or 5 shares to the exclusion of all others is loyalty right enough. The important agreement we share will be a game changer for both of us once TG's dream comes true.

I voted for Haller in the goal of the season for MOTD - but what a cracking choice we had (from 10 goals).

So you do have loyalty to you companies MFM. I haven't been so lucky with my 5, two survive , two have bitten the dust , and then there is TLOU. The survivors are off the FTSE now so I don't even monitor them.

But irrespective of the sp today, tomorrow and the next day, TLOU will be a winner.

So bored , the Monaco GP is just a 2 hour procession - a bit like watching 8 train carriages racing each other! Hamilton breaking the track record after a tactical tyre change to give him an open track was the only interest, and Brit Orlando Norris getting on the podium.

My rat that has one of Poppy's food bags to himself - reached the last of the mixer three days ago but polishes off the few I keep adding to that bag of my baking soda mixture is driving me mad.
It ignores the peanut butter and mixer I put in 3 rat traps - which have only caught my fingers!

I'll have to bring the poison boxes out of the loft and try them near that bag instead.

It would have been my Golden Anniversary this year - and I only have one notch on the head board.
Horses for courses MFM , but having studied the betting pattern on Eurovision (I don't usually bother watching it tbh, Covid has a lot to answer for) I do agree with you.

I couldn't believe the list of 1000/1 shots (6 countries) especially Germany and Netherlands , but Betfair is for the same population as those who will vote - so 1000/1 was saying a lot!

The long time top 4 in the betting finished 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th to prove it.
It is nice to say "I picked the winner" , bit like TLOU , exactly like TLOU for me.
Winning money on clever trading is just something to boast about - "I mugged a few mugs but I cannot remember who I backed" is not the same for me. That applies to several others on here and ex-Sirius holders I am sure. We are the mugs I guess.

The betting on Eurovision now makes sense, as do stock prices!

There is no loyalty in this poxy world, all that matters is price movements.
I followed the Betfair Exchange as performers appeared and only Portugal and Netherlands saw a reaction that reflected upon the song and performance. Netherlands reduced from 1000/1 to roughly 300/1 where it stayed , and Portugal dropped steadily before it returned to higher odds than it started at! The UK drifted immediately and extending from 560/1 to 920/1

Cyprus got quite a lot of coverage but last night I think Stephen Hawking might have won because the votes went to acts that were stand-ups rather than zany comics! And Switzerland and France looked to have it in the bag until the mobile phone users , the youth that does not appreciate the value of money , handed it to Italy and their heavy metal clowns.

The TLOU shareprice suffers from the same crap. On Sirius , there was a guy called GK , G? Kidney, who spoke authoritatively and for many years and nearly everyone respected immensely. Another well respected poster, Scotman, called him out because he realised that GK was one of the modern day swine who had no loyalty to SXX at all. I am fairly sure GK made a fortune betting against what he was advocating. I thought he was a one-off but now I am convinced he is the norm!

I sold Malta for a profit and ended up losing £12 after staying loyal the Greece and Cyprus , and I see from my phone history that my votes for them were cancelled because the beep beep noise and silence meant I had not gotten through! I bet millions of mobile phone calls were made because nobody told us what to expect. Did anyone vote and if so did thay get voice confirmation? I thought it was a clever ploy to reduce the queues. Eventually I made 8 calls , all show as cancelled!

2.65p must suit the traders better than 7p or more - odd because the spread is so limited - no wonder £5M+ was bet on Eurovision Betfair exchange!

I thought there was skulldugerry by my CEO at USOP but he made the sensible decision and has gained my respect for that.
Is anybody on here old enough to have dealt in paper shares?

"Euroclear Bank as Issuer CSD for Irish corporate securities –Migration guideJanuary 2021 | 41.Introduction1.1.ContextThe Euroclear Group has provided post-trade services for Irish securities for over 20 years. Irish corporate securities are currently settled in the CREST system operated by Euroclear UK & Ireland, a UK-incorporated company, which operates the CREST Irish System as Issuer Central Securities Depository (CSD). Euroclear Bank has been acting as the Issuer CSDfor Irish government bonds since 2000, and for international securities, including international Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Brexit will make the current arrangements between Euroclear UK & Ireland and the Irish corporate securities market untenable. "
.....
"The migration is expected to take place in one single event, starting at the closeof business on Friday,12 March 2021.This migration will result in Euroclear Bank’sNominee becoming the shareholder on the registerin respect of participating securities.The ISINsof the migrating securities will remain the same,whether held in Euroclear Bank or in Euroclear UK & Ireland as CREST Depository Interests (CDIs)."

Just had a thought!

moagi , the Kenner , is into Kenmare (KMR) so might be faced with same problem soon!

Unexpectedly found this release from US Oil and Gas!
Anybody with investments in Irish companies might find themselves in a similar position?

https://usoilandgas.us/news/press-releases/may-14-2021-u-s-oil-gas-plc-rematerialisation-of-share-certificates/

Brexit looks to the genuine problem

"Irish companies were presented with two alternative courses of action they could take in response to this development: corporate securities could be migrated from Euroclear UK & Ireland to Euroclear Bank (Belgium). Or, a company could choose not to migrate and instead require shares to be rematerialised as physical share certificates to be held by the shareholder or their registered agent such as a broker."

Is there really nobody on this board who has never had a share certificate foisted on them or an acquaintance?
A less cooperative group of people is hard to imagine , I even got some help from the ADVFN crew (TLOU) where a guy advised me of DCT motorcycles after I put my Triumph back on the road but due to equine foot after the aneurism I couldn't change to a higher gear! Hence the Aprilia Mana!

I like to know in advance what my options are. If Jarvis have multiple USOP holders i Imagine they will get one certificate on behalf of the grand total?, or will they get a certitificate for each individual nominee? Posting the latter to me would be easy , but the would the former involve the crazy gang issuing two certificates , one for me and another for vthe residue? Or can the registrar do it? I don't think I have ever had certificates except for my shares in Bournemouth and Boscombe united when AFC Bournemouth became a community club before a new chairman sold us out, and gave me my first bad experience of shareholding!

You replied to the wrong thread by the look of it , moagi.
MM reads before the closing date, but surely meant the date resulting from the processing of their chosen application which was received by the tender's closing date.
If there is only one application , of course it might be the same day , and maybe that is what MM was thinking that with some justification!

Unless Monday is a bank holiday , there is still time even if you are being stupidly pedantic!
I think I replied to the original post on the wrong thread after it took over from this thread. So , in short, I stand by my abusive reaction to your attempted goading of MM.

If you try to be clever for the sake of it, you can expect Karma from this board, though you'll get away with most of the time on ADVFN. And I spelled Karma correctly - I know you have no time for the Kharma spelling, or anyone else in this world but OB!

The tramp who sleeps on the steps to this board , keeps it up , with the lowest form of Sarcasm!

Never gets his facts right , or maybe his special needs nurse read this wrongly to him?

" Sealed tenders are to be submitted on or before 10:00am on the 25th May 2021 and should be placed in the tender box situated in the Supply Chain (Procurement) Office at the above address"

More likely he taxed his arithmetic skills by adding fingers to the date of Whizzer's post and ran out of fingers?