RE: Reading between the lines13 Feb 2021 14:39
GP
I’d be surprised at 10m based on the typical reservoir quality. A metre of two at best I’d have thought. We know it’s flowing and according to some they’ve already been selling oil, which suggests it’s probably cleaned up. So my take is that it’s not flowing at 500/day or they’d have said so. It is likely that they’re waiting for the squeeze which I guess is waiting on permits.
If I were to guess, based on experience of this type of reservoir, I’d be inclined to think that the skin problem hadn’t been overcome as hoped, or more likely that it’s simply flowing at a rate not far from the original test.
Prop Squeezes have been known to increase flow rates significantly but this is certainly not always the case.
I suspect it’ll be a few weeks yet before we know what it’s going to flow at.
At the risk of being slightly argumentative, why did they all give the strong impression this thing was going to be held back to 500/day (and not setting explicit timescales for post perf activity) when the reality always was somewhere between 80 and 500. By picking 500 and pushing that hard anything less will be seen as a failure to deliver what they “promised”. What did that “promise” achieve other than setting themselves up for either content investors that they’ve delivered what they said, or pi**ed off shareholders feeling they’ve somehow been misled. This is what nearly always happens with these small cap oilers...the temptation to promote the upside and downplay the downside costs nothing, until you don’t deliver it, do it regularly and then eventually when you do have some real upside that can be delivered nobody believes you....