Malcys report18 Apr 2019 12:58
Block Energy
I had a number of enquiries yesterday about why I hadn’t written up the Block announcement, it was all very innocent. You will have noticed that i did an early flash blog as I was on the move and my first read of the RNS didn’t make sense as the choke sizes quoted were not comparable. I decided to wait until I could verify the situation and after a long chat with Paul Haywood this morning I am more than comfortable to remain very positive on the shares.
The misunderstanding on the choke size was indeed a simple typo, they have scaled back the choke to 1/8? in order to cut back production to 700 b/d from 1,100 as they need to ‘upgrade production facilities’ which probably means that they are short storage, after all who thought that this well would be a barn burner…?
However the company is already moving on and in short order will be drilling more wells anyway, they seem to have three sidetracks on the books with one pretty much drill-ready and I know that they are keen to go after all the associated gas with further appraisals there. All in all there is much more excitement ahead for Block and I am having a proper meeting with Paul after Easter