RE: Maiden Dividend28 May 2018 13:32
Although obviously I would welcome a dividend I wouldn't hold your breath on that score. I get the impression that RP�s warrants are an insurance policy just in case one of the big boys tried a sneaky takeover. I had a beer with Eric Boyle the other day and I have to say, he was more buoyant than he�s been in a long time (although a bit sick of *****y emails from ****ed off shareholders!). On the cash front, yes with have the money from True and the money from the first two wells (I can�t remember if it was up to end off April or end of May before it switches over to 7.5% moving forward. I did mention that I thought we were getting stiffed on the True deal, but as he pointed out, oil companies don�t tend to carry insurance, so had anything gone wrong during the first two wells, it could have been game over for minnows like HNR. Fortunately it didn�t, and hopefully in the not too distant future we will have eight producing wells and no production overheads. True is a multi billion dollar corporation, thus the not carrying insurance is less of an issue. On the cash point, yes we got a heap of cash, but we�re burning through it at an impressive rate. I bet Cully was on a decent package bearing in mind his experience, but the impression thatI�ve always had from conversations with him is that he�s a smart, ambitious guy. He was running the show in London recently and I feel that he want�s to run his own company moving forward, but who knows? Hopefully we�re on the cusp of something big, and yes, whilst we�ve heard that before, the progress that the company has made over the last three years is truly remarkable. At the recent presentation in London, I asked the director from one company how long he�d worked there. He said 20 years. In all that time they�d produced no oil. Then Highlands presented next and destroyed all the companies that had already presented. Anyway, have faith guys, this may drop by a few more pence but I reckon by the end of this year will be several times higher than our currant SP.