Has MB been clever or stupid?14 Aug 2023 17:00
So the SP has lurched downwards following the awful interview last Thursday. This is not unexpected.
The piece of the interview that intrigues me is the part about the tenders for the new blocks which both border onto the PC blocks that are producing already. The throw away line was "If you want to sink a well to find oil, sink it next to one that is already producing!". Or words to that effect.
If I understood MB correctly, we have our final paper work submitted for one block and this is just awaiting approval and granting of the rights for the first block.
The second block submission has been made, no one else has submitted, so PM is to submit the necessary offer and then complete the final paperwork for this too, though this will take more time as it is at an earlier stage than the first block. But the sense is that it is almost a given that the prospecting oil and gas rights for both blocks will be won by PM.
My question to myself is why has no one else tendered?
Is this because this block also needs a SPL that has not been granted yet, but would be included in the SLP about to be issued?
If PC have not put in for the tender for the blocks next door to their existing fields, do they know something we don't?
This could be very cunning and clever or not!
Anyone have a view on this point?