RE: We will know soon18 Apr 2024 11:19
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"Paul Basinski let slip in 2016 that they know they have no prospect of commercial oil in North Alaska as the majors have already crawled all over it and bled it dry"
So COPL at new developments (Willow, Kupurak River), Santos (Pikka, Quokka), Bill Armstrong & Repsol (NSE 6 drill programme) and PANR are all wasting their time and their independent resource reports are worthless.
Not sure when Paul Basinski ever said that there was no chance of commercial oil and that the majors had sucked it all up, he was fixed on unconventional source rock oil and believed that was where the really BIG commercial volumes would be achieved but I do not remember him saying that precluded conventional oil.
Ed Duncan stated “The easy conventional oil on the North Slope has been found" and he believed shale oil presented the best opportunity for oil in 2011 but that was prior GBP shooting their 3D and initial drills, subsequently they changed their strategy.
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