Chris Heminway, Exec-Chair at Time To ACT, explains why now is the right time for the Group to IPO. Watch the video here.
How to avoid mozzies, in my experience is to not drink gassy beer. The CO2 comes from the pores in your skin. Instead, drink G&T! The quinine exudes from the pores in your skin and discourages mosquitoes ??. Even better - sit with a whole bunch of beer- drinkers and watch them get bitten while you enjoy your g&t.
Honoured, to be sure, Max. I delivered Christmas parcels as a student postman in Stockport 40 years ago, and also while a student, we visited Robinson’s brewery in Stockport. What a lovely brown ale! The three little acorns, workmates here in my office at work became shareholders in VRS, so maybe there is a little of the salesman in me. My mother showed me black and white photos of donkey rides on Blackpool beach and I remember the days of the rag and bone men.
Max, I continue to sow little vrs acorns and three of them have borne fruit already. Each of us does what we can with what we have. At my level I continue to influence others technically rather than with things I am not very good at like sales and marketing. Give it time, we are getting there, mate!
It will certainly be a boon to infrastructure in the rail industry, which I happen to work in. Not network rail, but I am alerting my engineering colleagues to the start of the age of graphene in the transportation industry. Some holders here too. Lots to look forward to.
Hi, gooner brother. Thanks for your info, always appreciated. Yes, the Dolphin involvement is smoke and mirrors, but a possible reason for this is a possible quantum shift in the company's direction, away from Georgia. I'm assuming we may have an agreement to sell block 12 to a super major and BH will be their main operator, which leaves FRR with considerable funds behind them, and a strong appetite to look for new exploration and development goals in some sort of close partnership with that super major. Dolphin has enormous geological potential and may provide a backdoor re-entry to Moldova. All this is pure conjecture, which is possible to do on no news and without the pressure of worrying over the SP. The private shareholders could be rewarded for their forbearance with a one-off dividend, due to not having been consulted over all this unseen activity. I think we deserve at least modest compensation for our belief in FRR.
Thanks for the feedback Ivy. My ukrainian friend mentioned that a lot depends on which court the case is heard in. If it were to be moved to the european court, for instance, then we would win, apparently. If in Kyev, then what do you think is likely?
When I heard about the result of the Dolphin scenario and FRR's intention to challenge it in court, it sounded crazy. I know Zaza is far from crazy. I know he must have a strategy, so i started asking questions from some people that know. Certain colleagues who are familiar with the commercial aspects of bidding under PSA conditions. People who know some of the history of alleged corruption during such processes. Then I asked about about the wisdom or otherwise of contesting the recent bidding irregularities for rights to explore parts of the northern Black Sea. I keep thinking about Zaza's claim that he never fights a case that he isn't sure he will win. Then I made some enquiries not about what there is to lose but what is there to win in this case. Could it be possible that a ruling might be made that awards FRR the right to develop the claims by default if we win the case? I can hear howls of derision and hysterical laughing about such a ridiculous and preposterous proposition. If we look at this situation from the depths of the pit of oblivion, the walls seem mighty steep and hard to climb, but I am sure that many will agree that we are helpless to do anything except observe and wait for what might just be something even bigger than any of us expected.
Methinks there are some greedy fatcat shorters taking advantage of Trump’s tariff-touting madness. Perhaps there is also a reverse Midas touch from Boris the clown to add to it. Their bloated belching will be short lived. Hold fast me hearties!
Seriously guys (and ladies) I understand that most of us are peeved but calling each other names is not working for anyone. We all have differing opinions on the BB and share them, but none of us are pricks. I am not particularly offended by people hurling such abuse around, but this isn't the place for it. Respect. No need for anything other than respect and camaraderie, commiseration maybe, but Character assassination just isn't necessary. It's a lot less abusive and much friendlier on this BB than some of those where there are a higher proportion of shorter sharks swimming around. Please let's keep it that way?
Maybe it's well known or not, but I read in several places that today's market hammering (which affected our SP) was caused by Trump saying he would raise Tarriffs against China even higher than the 25% already applied or threatened, allegedly by a further 10-15%. Yes, Trump is a bear influence on the market and these Tarriffs are the reason. Since this is a sort of rainy day for the market, I thought I would resurrect some interesting reading on some graphene technology cleverly called "rainshine panels". (Reminds me of some words from a song "sunshine on a rainy day") I missed the article in the graphene journal, but how about the Guardian's angle on the technology. Does it cheer anyone up a little? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/13/rain-or-shine-new-solar-cell-captures-energy-from-raindrops
Tinlode, you’re a brick, mate. Winding up the burning shorters is a rare sport on AIM. Great to see the graphene balloon rising despite the shorters jumping in the basket to try to weigh us down.
OK folks, I've been doing a little research and refreshing my memory on the Geology of the Caspian-Black Sea basins. The Dolphin block in the NW sector of the Black sea seems to be a continuation of the Kura trend. This hydrocarbon trend starts at BP's Shah Deniz field in the Caspian and continues to the North West along the Kura basin through Azerbaijan, FRR's Block 12 in Georgia and out into and across the Black sea with its underlying host rock, the Maykop formation continuing to the Northwest corner of the Black Sea, an area called the Odessa Shelf. That's where the Dolphin Block is. There are plenty of Gas condensate fields to the North of the Dolphin block, so it's a gassy area, that's for sure. Geologically, the block has plenty of carbonates and they can be excellent host rocks for oil and gas deposits. The Oil and gas Journal stated, dated 15 April as follows:
"The Ukrainian government has launched a public tender for the Dolphin offshore block under a production-sharing agreement, covering 9,496 sq km of the northwestern part of the Black Sea’s continental shelf. Interested parties have 60 days to submit applications to PSA Interagency Commission. Winning bidders will be notified by July. Prospects already discovered within the block are Zonalna, Myrna, and Charivna. The PSA duration is 50 years. Bidders must provide a minimum financial commitment of $55.5 million throughout the 5-year exploration period. A minimum work program requires drilling of no less than five exploration wells.
There are three other bidders for the exploration of Dolphin. From the dates stated, it sounds like an announcement is imminent. Maybe this is the catalyst that will get the ducks off the water.
DYOR but I have something new and interesting to share about things to come. Fracking for Frontera has had some success, but at the greater depths and pressures we have to maintain openings for the easy flow of hydrocarbons, it is tough going. Proppant is often just not of a good enough quality to delelop and maintain an enhanced reservoir permeability. Things are changing. Changing for the better all the time we are sat wondering what is going on. Advances are being made in proppant performance and strength. The science of new nano materials based on graphene materials technology is going to change the world as we know it. Super strength graphene-enhanced proppants are coming. They will be able to boldly go where proppants could only give up before AND they will have the sphericity and durability to bridge the fracks to allow higher and sustained flow rates to be maintained. Rejoice, Graphene was a British invention. Collaborations between graphene producers and the oil patch in Houston are well underway. Of course, well known British firms are at the forefront of these developments. The future is FRRigging amazing. The prospects excite me anyway.
Robin - A couple of snippets to add to whet your appetite: I think the place in Alaska you refer to is the North Slope. Huge potential for new reserves there, and it could well be argued that improvements in fracking materials might help the developers. Specifically of interest would be better proppants: the stuff used to "prop open" hydraulically induced fractures to stimulate flow of hydrocarbons from the reservoir rocks. "The production of Nano scale materials such as anticorrosive and intelligent proppants besides proppants with carbon nanotubes is already carried out on a scale of tonnes per year in Belgium, Germany and Asia countries." I quote from a paper http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0366-69132018000200219&script=sci_arttext
I liked what I read about the Appointment of New Head of US Operations at Versarien Graphene Inc ("VGI") in today's RNS: Of particular value must be Mr Berney's experience as CEO of Dynavolt, a US division of a Chinese battery manufacturer Guangdong, which significantly developed one of the top three nanogel motorbike batteries among many other achievements. DYOR, but I like the sound of this new guy.
Thanks for bringing this board back to the most important things, Puddy. (Instead of wild speculation about almost everything, including what sort of tree Zara is sitting on.) Last I read, he was sitting on. Beech - or was that sitting on his ash? In the absence of definite information, I prefer to focus on the most likely fact that we are producing hydrocarbons and probably developing capacity for producing more in Georgia. Mong the speculation, there are now theories about Exploration in Moldova and The Ukraine - an extension of the Kura hydrocarbon province in Azerbaijan and Georgia. Lots to look forward to when the legal retrograde motion is over.
Dear tinopener and whoever else might be interested: The known geological processes that have concentrated graphite on our planet in mineable concentrations are probably less likely to have taken place on the Moon than on Mars. The reason for this assumption is that it is believed you probably need big volcanoes or well developed igneous provinces to develop ore deposits of any types. The most plausible theories supporting the formation of carbon/graphite deposits presuppose a source of carbonate rock which gets severely cooked and/or pressurized by underground forces, at least volcanism and tectonism. The Tharsis region of Mars certainly has the volcanoes (Olympus Mons is the biggest known volcano in the solar system). We talk about a big future for graphene on Earth, but perhaps there will be massive graphite mining and graphene production on Mars, managed by AI robots. The moon could become a convenient materials transfer station, though.
Exciting times indeed, Robin. On today’s news I expected to see some solid buying, but the market must have the jitters. I am hoping the SP will stay lowish until I have a windfall to invest later this year, so not sweating. We are at the launchpad of The age of graphene. Thanks to daily shortsellers and AIM dealers, we have a lot of resistance to overcome, but soon, shorts will burn. Get ready to be singed, shorties.
https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Graphene-reinforced_concrete
I just wanted to remind myself of some of the advantages of building with graphemes reinforced concrete, since Robin has been writing about some recent applications of it. This material is at least twice as strong as concrete made with average cement. That makes builders able to use half as much to achieve a similar result. Lighter buildings. Less material, and a much reduced carbon footprint for every building madd with it. This is only a very brief summary but the paper I am linking here is only one year old research and shows (as they point out) what a game-changer it will be.