Reality.19 Nov 2018 12:45
The signs were there that this drill was not going to be a gusher. But more of that later. The CEO is an accountant who has worked in the OnG industry, but, he is an accountant. Crude (bless) says this is not the time for recrimination!! Who is he going to 'have a go at', not his mentor, the special one, or his choice of Expl. Dir., BM. I was suspicious of BM when I asked him by mail how many shares he held ( this was before he was made a Director) after his response at an event when he said he 'didn't own enough. He told me he held zero shares, and he thought that his reply was seen as a joke. BM I believe was made redundant from RDS, following their TO of BG for whom BM worked. It has always been RDS policy in event of job duplication in MnA that the best qualified stays. Says it all. TE9 was seen as the best site following extensive seismics etc, and is probably a greater disaster than at first sight, since as Exploration said a few weeks ago,, NOT finding gas would be unbelievable. BM should resign or be sacked, Other disciples, a lot of them strangely silent today, have been ramping even though all the signs were there that all was not well. Where is the GSA from our ' fantastic negotiator '. Why did our 'supreme' leader not go for a defined time line tender for the farm out at Sidi, with the ' many interested parties'. These same gullibles even now believe JP will drop a RNS with the GSA and/or Sidi farmee to lessen the pain of TE9. I will make a prediction, they will be in a 12-18 month time scale. A few idiots have said this morning, and in previous days, there could not have been a leak since the volumes were 'small'. Firstly, the CEO is selling, THE CI has been selling for some time, few Directors have shares, but more importantly, the site staff know before anyone what the result is going to be. Coded messages to relatives and friends over the past few weeks have undoubtedly happened, and the daily volumes have been in the low millions, well above the previous months trend. This for me was the biggest sign that the drill had problems,and I did sell in the mid 30's, but still kept lots 'in hope'. There are many posters on here who still think that because of The Horst find, and JP's £1.50ptcf ( more according to crude since the OGIF deal), that the sp is underpinned at something around 50p. Now it's not only me who is saying this is nonsense, it's the Market. I have said, and given figures and reasons, what I believe the 'reality' figure to be. The precise figure depends on the GSA, but is below 20p ps. Some of you will remember the figure I put on the tcf value. Let us remember what this CEO has done. He took us out of Indonesia, where we had an oil find, to Italy, where he sold the company for about a half pence a share, and the buyer of the company, and JP is also a Director, is returning to Indonesia. Lol. at the