RE: Gas19 Jul 2016 10:27
labratt - Mr M won't be happy that you're talking to the company, but I'm definitely in favour of a good dialog;
imo there is potentially a very obvious reason why it is possible they are not saying anything further at this point. I'll give you a pointer - is there the possibility in their extensive workovers carried out - 4 I think in just the last few weeks - that they have identified other gaseous zones where NCT does not have complete control over the acreage, so they might want a bit more? Commercially that would very sensitive, if true.
Just a thought but would explain lack of detail at this point.
RNS said".....additional exploitation opportunities of well bores with re-entry potential in gassier pay zones holds substantial potential to generate additional low risk, low cost revenue at Shoats Creek Field."
The other point I'd make is that the Aminex Circular on sale of Shoats Creek to NCT makes lots of reference to capex needed to exploit the proven resources. Aminex stated they did not have the capex needed to do drilling - one of the reasons for selling (but they had lost interest by then - Tanzania being their focus); however, what Aminex failed to say was with new drilling techniques etc low cost, high impact workovers were alternative route to shore up the SC field. As Helpful said, and I also a note somewhere, NCT have identified another 15-18 workovers at SC.