RE: Telegraph18 Oct 2018 16:46
"Ashley Kelty, an analyst with financial services group Cantor Fitzgerald, described the announcement as “spurious” and said it was “extremely unlikely” that UKOG would be able to recover as much of the oil reserves as it claims.
“The company has been saying that the Portland well is commercial for a while now, so this is probably more to keep the voracious appetite of the retail punters for news sated,” he said.
He added that a flow rate of 1,000 barrels of oil a day “seems a leap of faith” given the testing achieved only 360 barrels of oil a day."
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From the RNS dated 03/08/2018
"Portland short-term high rate tests achieve stable implied equivalent daily pumped rates of 401 and 414 barrels of oil per day ("bopd") of dry 36 API oil over two periods of 6 and 2 hours, respectively. Maximum instantaneous half-hourly pumped rates of 441 and 470 bopd."
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Seems Mr Kelty's analytical skills are somewhat lacking here - I certainly won't be taking advice from his company if he is unable to read basic RNS updates...