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I scrape the share chat page and mail myself a daily DIGEST each day. Good name for something that has more restaurant tips than share news ;-/

Boderisimus, many thanks for the info. That OGJ article seems to be behind a paywall, but here's another one that isn't...

https://www.ogj.com/articles/print/volume-99/issue-22/exploration-development/detecting-hydrocarbon-microseepage-using-hydrocarbon-absorption-bands-of-reflectance-spectra-of-surface-soils.html

I've given up trying to understand what the Brits mean by 'sovereignty'. You can't enter any sort of agreement without relinquishing some aspect of sovereignty. It's the very nature of the thing. Anyway I'm beyond caring, and Chequers isn't going to get past the Leavers, the Remainers, or the EU anyway. Just try not to wreck sterling too badly during the inevitable crash-out, at least until I offload my SOU shares. I'm hoping the LE offer will be denominated in a more stable currency so that GBP fluctuations won't make any difference.

JoeCreed: "Have I been spelling Paleozoic wrong all this time? :)"

No, that is now the more common spelling of Palaeozoic, since the Yanks took over the world. Nowadays we pronounce it PALE-ee-oh-zoic, whereas it would have been pal-EYE-oh-zoic when it was coined by Charles Lyell nearly 200 years ago.He took it from Greek παλαιος, palaios and ζoϵ, zoe -- "ancient life". The Greek diphthong (αι as in παλαιος) would have been transliterated into the ligature æ, which is the letter "ash" in the Old English Latin alphabet, and still commonly used into the 20th century. Thus we got Palæozoic as you will see even in older American publications such as the article "The Making of the Geological Time-Scale" in the Journal of Geology from 1893 ( https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/30054854.pdf ). Less fancy typesetting tends to render the ligature æ as the digraph ae or, as has become more common, just plain e.

Agreed Orangeviking. I'm another refugee from iii where sensible posters like Billfish below resided. The level of nuttery on lse is a bit disappointing. I don't know a lot about oil (which is why I lurk here) but I know plenty about software, so I read this board by webscraping it and emailing the posts to myself. Thankfully that lets me filter certain posters straight to the bin.

I take your point but I doubt that's how TOR sees it. He's on record as saying the O'Reillys haven't seen any return for all their effort and investment. Notwithstanding that he has yet to put his hand in his own pocket, and it's successive waves of shareholders who have taken a soaking, I imagine as captain of the ship he is expecting to sail off into the sunset with what he sees as his just reward. In any case, it's all down to the roll of the Barryroe dice. If that doesn't come in he is surely toast. If it does, it is surely worth a good deal more than 60c on the share price.

At 60c they make 15c gross per share, subject to income tax not capital gains. I realise they probably don't pay tax like mere mortals, but if they did they would net c. 7c per share, or about €850k for the directors' 12 million options. I doubt that a mere two years salary is the giant payout from PVR that TO'R was thinking of.

Ah what the hell. Another lurker outed.
7.95 from me.