What's Left?8 Apr 2021 08:04
As a (very) LTH I was certainly disappointed to see us, once again, drilling with apparently little to show for it. Yes the samples taken may provide better evidence of oil quality and perhaps quantity, but of course we were all hoping for oil to flow. So the rig is being sent away while we face another long summer awaiting the arrival of cold weather again much later in the year, and the chance that we may once again have a go at finding the black stuff.
However, I just wonder, with DW departing whether a decision was made by the company (new investors more likely) that come what may a buyout would be attempted in order that some capital can be retrieved from all the tranches of investment, or perhaps a partial sell to allow 88E to move to the Yukon Gold lease and try there. It certainly seems that the new investors had something in mind when they decided to get on board, and that would have to have been more than a vague 'maybe this time' prospect of a discovery.
Somehow I cannot see the new board just sitting back for the next 6 months and waiting for the ice to return. So I am holding (albeit a much smaller position tan before) for now based on a free carry hoping for an offer to come in, and then with a greater hope that a bidding war starts as Biden has curtailed any major from taking new leases so this could be the only way to expand their business in Alaska.
Time will tell but whatever happens I don't intend to be here next winter, even if the company still is, so good luck to everyone and I hope whatever decisions you make are the right ones for you.