RE: RE: 14th in the list20 Aug 2018 14:03
Not sure to what extent you can blame the board for ALL of the problems here the last few years. The biggest factor was the drop in the price of oil. Also the recent drop in production was a result of deterioration of 22. The current drill campaign has been delayed - which I guess you could attribute to them. However, pretty much every AIM explorer has been delayed this year, some much more than AMER (AAOG was supposed to drill 103 a year ago!).
My main criticism of the board is that they were not agressive enough with the exploration, specifically on put 9 and 12 bordering on Platanillo. They put all their eggs in platanillo and the issues with production on the block have come back to bite them. However, as long as the drill campaign go ahead and we start working on 9 and 12 in Q1 all the historical issues are resolved imo. Personally having experience of Colombia I think the reason they held off exploration is that they wanted to avoid having to truck the oil through territory that the FARC were operating in, hence the pipeline. In the long run this was misguided because FARC have now demobilised, but they didn't have a crystal ball to know this would happen.