RE: Today's RNS29 Dec 2017 16:43
A VERY interesting RNS. Perhaps not quite what we had convinced ourselves we were going to get but revealing nonetheless.
It's now completely clear clear that a hell of a lot of engineering work has been happening on the ground without us knowing (as Saudi wanted it I'm afraid, much to the detriment of our stress levels!) despite the shorters attempts to convince us otherwise.
The fact they've used the phrase "Installations for fuel production are now essentially complete" with it's plural, says to me and my near 40 years engineering experience at least, that there are multiple MSAR production sites, not just one.
The phrase "Production to Combustion Trial" as used in previous years has now changed to "Boiler Combustion Trial". This tells me that following the Installations mentioned above, production has been tested, signed off and is ready to roll.
The 'Boiler Combustion' part of the trial has been done before at several sites so the company should be hugely confident.
This IS big!