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This news article is only 10 days old and states 100 MW of CBM by 2025
https://www.pressreader.com/botswana/botswana-guardian/20220520/281917366686362

Whizzer, I haven’t responded to your idiotic post because it’s basically a cut and paste post from one of your previous posts and demonstrates how ignorant you are. I’m absolutely fine with this morning’s update. Clearly the BOD has been reading this forum and have updated shareholders to stop muppets like you giving out misinformation about how quickly the poles should be erected. If you knew anything about construction or civil engineering works, you would realise that there is invariably a (often lengthy) period of enabling works prior to carrying out the meat of the contract. If, for example, you were having house extended, you wouldn’t expect the contractor to immediately start the extension without first clearing the site, diverting the services, establishing access, site accommodation and making it safe, would you? The same principle can be applied to this transmission line contract. It obvious they need to clear the path for the machinery to be utilised in erecting the poles. Regarding the procurement of poles, there would typically be a down payment when ordering these, so I suspect that to limit their costs they have ordered these as late as possible and to time the delivery of the poles to coincide with the availability of the equipment and workers to erect the poles, otherwise they would have to pay for them and store them.
Your obsession with these poles is bizarre, you’re trying to micromanage this process in your head without knowing what the schedule of works looks like. We are told it will take 15 months, that is the headline figure you should focus on, if 12 months from now there hasn’t been significant progress then I would be concerned. Just chill man!!!

Minister of Minerals and Energy Honourable Lefoko Moagi visits Tlou Energy stand at BRIEF 2022 to get an update. Happy that construction of the transmission line has commenced and looking forward to visiting site for the ground breaking ceremony within the next month.

http://twitter.com/GabaakeGG/status/1526132879167836160/photo/1

'Ground breaking ceremony', surely the first pole erected doesn't deserve such a ceremony? I wonder what they define as 'ground breaking'?

No, they're going to just lay them straight on the ground, so you longer have to worry about the poles.

It's almost like the company reads the contents this discussion forum! Will whinging wizzer be happy? Doubt it.

'They should have a proper drill rig with corkscrew drill and should get through at least 10 holes a day if not more, but that depends on if they are using the same drill rig to lift the poles into place or they should have a separate machine to do this'
Completely agree with this Whizzer, apart from the 10 poles a day. It was that ******** moagi who couldn't differentiate between drilling a hole and digging a hole. As a Civil Engineer and having worked with numerous piling contractors in the past, I would be surprised if one gang could set up, drillout the hole, place the concrete, plumb the pole and move on to the next one in less than 90 minutes. You might be right and they might not have started the poles yet, but it's a moot point when they've given themselves 15 months to connect to the grid. If needs the poles installed in short time, they could always have many gangs operating from both ends to speed up the installation, so I don't know what you are worried about. If you have so little trust in the management, move on! I know I would if I felt that way.
BTW, if you call someone an Idiot, it's 'You're an Idiot', not 'Your an Idiot' ........the irony!

Whizzer, you are such an idiot.
The last update the company stated:
'To connect to the national power grid, a 100 Km transmission line needs to be built to connect Lesedi to the existing grid. During the quarter the transmission line construction contractor and owners' engineer were engaged, and work has commenced on the project.'
The next stage is very simple. I would estimate for about next 9 months they are going to be drilling a shallow hole in the ground every 100m or so, dropping a pole into the ground and filling is with concrete. So for 100km, they'll have about a 1000 poles to install at maybe 4 or 5 poles a day. Clearly it's a long slow process and the company has stated that it has commenced.

Brad,
Moagi is like tinnitus, he's just a background noise that people on here have got used to. Whether he's banging on about political coups or claiming that Tlou is a 'hold' whilst ' fearing' (praying) that the SP will drop to 1p! He (she or whatever) is just some Billy no mates with a chip on its shoulder about this particular stock and by association, anyone seriously invested in it. I personally welcome your enthusiastic response to its nonsense, although I would suggest that you stop pretending that you have him on filter as it undermines the credibility of your argument.

Well whizz, they confirmed that work for the poles and wires has commenced, surely after 12 months of whinging, you are happy with that bit of news? Unless of course you’re expecting an RNS for each pole put into the ground!

As for dewatering, perhaps the best place to look is in this statement from 12 months ago:

‘Project finance discussions are at an advanced stage with a very reputable Botswana-based entity. Due to confidentiality the Company is unable to name the entity concerned at this time. However, we can confirm that their investment committee and board have discussed the project financing and are favourably disposed to Tlou's proposal. They are now proceeding with a third-party technical review of the project as part of their due diligence process. Once this report is assessed an investment decision can be made.’

Clearly, the third party technical review and due diligence sided with the company, otherwise we would have no financial partner at very favourable terms.

https://twitter.com/TlouEnergy/status/1513224157474996228?cxt=HHwWiICyvdLWhoAqAAAA

'Quick trip to IKEA with the wife .....'
That's got to be a lie, who on earth would want to put up with you for the rest of their life?

If I remember correctly Tlou are involved in SM’s IPO

https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/978643/synergen-met-s-push-to-harness-renewable-energy-as-it-prepares-to-go-public-978643.html

Not getting that impression at all. They’ve set themselves a timeline that shouldn’t be delayed by government bureaucracy, so unless there is another global disaster of some kind, it’s all systems go I reckon! I’m look forward to the next 18 months watching my investment grow.

I looked at those three trades earlier and I thought 'I bet they're Brad's'

Mrmoagi's first post on here:
'I will happily depart as quickly as I reappeared if folks start being disrespectful about other posters'
After 14 months of you being disrespectful to all posters other than your aliases, I think it's time for you to pi55 off.

'The abuse dished out by Tidd, Morris, Buzz, and many others in my direction in 2017 and 2018 was appalling'
According to member info you joined 14 months ago, what name were you posting under in 2017 or have have you now confused yourself having so many aliases?
Besides, I don't remember Tidd ever being abusive to anyone that didn't deserve it.

I have a funny feeling that footage of the elephant wasn't filmed in Botswana.

Interesting comment by Tony:
Having secured the first tranche of BPOPF funds allowing us to get Zismo started on the transmission line we are now progressing additional power off-takers as well as exploring further ways of monetising our enormous gas reserves.

Brad, it’s 17,000 kWh, which is 17 MWh

http://www.kylesconverter.com/energy,-work,-and-heat/cubic-feet-of-natural-gas-to-megawatt-hours