Chinese Consortium5 Jun 2019 22:53
It is clear China are keen to progress in Irish waters and also went through the same process as outlined below for iolar which is now being drilled.
Just to be clear this consortium fronted by APEC is actually termed with COSL who in turn are a subsidiary of state owned CNOOC.
JIC are actually also a subsidiary of China Jianyin - also a state owned enterprise.
It appears some believe that $9m isn’t even a starter in terms of investment.
A little naive since the levels of DD that would need to be completed to allow such state owned organisations to even get a foot in the door with government. Let us not forget that the projected work program is likely to run in excess of $200-250m.
Precisely why government level approvals on both sides are so meaningful and why they will not just walk as Mamms wrongly deduced.
The MMs have had a field day today, marked down circa 15% with no sells on open and then dropped the bid consistently on little volume. The stock is as tight as a gnats a$$ as it is, all that’s happened here is that PIs have been spooked and dumped whilst in turn nothing has in fact changed.
The delay was known about and priced in already, the $9m is not needed until site survey approval which I have zero doubt will be awarded - it’s already been awarded once!!