ToT22 Jan 2020 08:10
the_old_trout10h
Ah…you beat me to it Eyeson as I was just scouring Facebook for snippets. It’s obviously gone on National TV now with archive footage from the official opening of the gas processing plant at MK. The guy from the GOGC is not a familiar face, but they did have a clear out a while back and he might be able to point to a predecessor as a scapegoat when push comes to shove.
Underneath the video Google translate offers the following translation:
"Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation (GOGC) involved in arbitration dispute - US energy company Frontera Oil and Gas Corporation demands $ 3.5 billion in compensation; :mega: For its part, Frontera Corporation is required to comply with the terms of its contract with the state and return 99% of its contractual territory to Georgia. # Oil # Gas # Fronta # Energy # Arbitrage # Energy Platform State Oil and Gas Agency "
The two stated positions are clearly extremes and it will be the role of the Arbitrators to see if they can meet in the middle or somewhere near it I guess, but the fact that it has got onto tv screens in Georgia means that there are no hiding places now neither for the politicians nor the bureaucrats. They will not want/be able to to cough up any large sum of money, so I suspect that FRR will get to hang on to a significant percentage of the block, provided it is able to to demonstrate that, together with a big name partner, it has the ability to develop the resources to their full potential. To do so will surely be dependent on the outcome of the court cases in Cali and Texas though imo.