RE: 100% buy5 Oct 2023 23:11
Just simple business at the end of the day John, CEG Uruguay license is ground for exploring CEG assets valued around 196 million, major comes in and take up a stake in a small oil company with its stock in the toilet at 3 million market cap, commit a few more hundred million to explore takes up a handsome stock position for pennies hype hype, retail believe the story then off load their positions after the big announcement and high oil prices when everyone is bullish consolidate the stock to make it look a success story and rinse and repeat for another few years. Both parties work out nicely and retail holds the bag as always, Uruguay has been a stomping ground for majors for decades without any real finds but they have committed hundreds of millions pretty much each decade to explore.
It’s a game played many times over in the past we have all seen it before,
With the excessive profits majors have made the last couple of years a few hundred million is walking around money and a tax right off if nothing comes of it.,
Eytan has shown to be a deals man, he is not an oil man his call on production increases proves you can’t plow money into old wells and expect better production, I bet the ground crews working the rigs could have told him that if he asked. He spent like a drunken sailor to increase production without thinking it through risking the companies finances again, buying up more land with old wells was a desperate act to make the company look more viable paper up its asset value. This new funding agreement is terrible like you said death spiral finance, he knows it too but predators delay in handing over the cash for the sale of Cory really nailed that coffin.
I wouldn’t be surprised at a deal being made I have left my position in even though it broke lower than my expectation we can debate as much as we want but none of us are in the board room where the decisions are made, speculation is our game.