RE: Olderwiser20 Apr 2024 20:45
Ad hominem (Latin for 'to the person'), short for argumentum ad hominem, refers to several types of arguments that are fallacious. Typically this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself. This avoids genuine debate by creating a personal attack as a diversion
This is what the pump brigade have ramped up the intensity of, then ask yourself why
Genuine debate is stifled, such as below
Both flow tests from a rational POV have been disappointing, the market has reacted accordingly, despite an exceptional job in polishing the turd by 88e
The duration of the oil cut phase in both tests, failed to reach a point of sustainable flow, before being prematurely terminated
14 to 16 hrs of oil cut is still in an unstable mode where the flow of hydrocarbons is influenced by the initial fracturing, where on each fracture plain, rock has literally been split, so releasing the contents of each split pore. This will flow to surface as the injected water used to fracture the rock returns, it is not representative of a flow from the rock matrix itself.
That comes later as the rock itself allows its contents to very pass through it highly resistive structure, then it becomes a sustainable flow, the object of every flow test. 88e would shout sustained flow from the roof tops had it been achieved, and the numbers looked good. The market would have recognized it
Those that use the initial disturbed flow period to assess future sustainable flows, are going to be disappointed
That said even in this unstable flow period the results were poor, 4 barrels in 16 hours is never going to be commercial
The USFS has a better, but still poor flow rate, but also a very high co production of gas, that will be a long term problem
It turns out to have been a very poor choice by 88e to rush these tests and finish with insufficient flow test time in the critical phase of oil cut to reach a sustained flow, (The season was long enough, they were late to start)
Now they go into their next capital raise with an incomplete result, investors will be asked for funds, on 24.8 plus 4 barrels of oil production, and spun up numbers like the 70 bopd, based on a 30 minute surge of 1.55 bbls, and an equally spun, unspecified time period, 50 bopd flow rate from the SMDB, from it total 16 hrs production, in which 4 barrels are produced