Not really hidden...9 Jun 2020 11:03
..but.
Technical work to be largely supported by the Company's existing technical staff base currently supporting operations in The Bahamas
Same team working on it instead of twiddling their thumbs or sitting on them. Whatever floats your boat.
During 2019, oil majors Shell, BP, Total and Equinor bid for and were awarded various licences offshore Argentina, adjacent to ours which is proximate to the Argentina-Uruguay maritime border, and where the primary targets in those licences are likely to be the same Cretaceous plays potentially present in OFF-1. More recently, In December 2019, Kosmos Energy bid for and was awarded the two adjacent Uruguayan offshore blocks to OFF-1. Refer to the map link in Appendix A.
Huge interest .Super Majors already in the area. If they hit, our CoS goes up (as well as down if they don’t). 3D to be shot?
The Company believes a successful exploration well in The Bahamas will unlock the broader multi-billion potential of the petroleum resources across the Company's extensive 100% held licences in that country and position the project in The Bahamas for the next stage of appraisal and development.
Next stage already to appraise Bahamas? Stena lock in by September and just do what they do best?
At such time, it has long been the Company's stated policy that the transformative value of the project would be maximised by introducing a long-term partner via a farm-in, and it continues to be the Company's view that a partnership with a large multinational oil company will offer considerable benefits when it comes to taking the project forward once the initial exploration well is completed.
Farm-in… surely not… not now… that'd be nuts.