RE: Off the book24 Jul 2017 12:13
Whilst the loss, if they choose to exit at this point, would be chicken feed to Dellek, IMO there is no way Delek would exit at a loss.
There simply is no need for them to accept such a loss. They know that they could just wait it out for the production increases or oil price recovery to enable their exit without the loss. I doubt Delek are in the game of buying high and selling low.
The very fact that Delek were recently adding to their holding, Delek added 7.3m shares on the 15th of June at around 87.5p, tells me that these high volumes of shares traded over the last week or so is not Delek exiting. I personally believe that Delek will more than likely be adding to their holding.
This leaves the question, who is selling? IMO it can only be DANA. They are the only other party with a substantial enough holding and may well be willing to accept the reduced price with the Capex drains of their ongoing Western Isles project.
Time will tell. The TR1's will let us know.