RE: Good for a laugh3 Jul 2019 21:05
Thanks, QF. For Ireland's sake I'd really like it to come off. On the negative side, I put Fanning and O'Reilly in the same box. Their remuneration is in inverse proportion to their abilities (on behalf of investors that is).
On the technical side, the Barryroe crude is known to be significantly waxy which is going to make it difficult to extract, transport and store.
Unless things have changed in recent years, I can tell you that Whitegate Refinery is not geared to handle or process waxy crudes. I dont know how much investment would be required to change that, but it would be significant. I noted a long time ago that there is no record that the refinery laboratory was asked to assay the crude (although this could have happened outside the public domain.) In the past this prohibited Whitegate from processing Libyan crudes which were ideal in most other respects.
I've no direct experience in E&P but not good that it took so long to get a farm-out. That said, the Chinese are investing world-wide to secure energy supplies and yes, the shares are at very low price.