RE: complicated31 Jan 2019 12:51
years to conclusion but this bit was interesting:
" PY-3 - The arbitration tribunal, overseeing the arbitration between HEPI and the other uJV partners, is expected to issue a decision prior to end 2018. "
OUTLOOK
· CY-OS/2 - The UOI appeal of the CY-OS/2 arbitration Award is expected to commence shortly in the Delhi HC. Based on past performance of the India Judiciary, the appeal process is expected to take three to five years to conclude. A hearing for the UOI's set-aside application against a UK enforcement order is due to be heard in the first quarter of FY20.
· PY-3 - The UOI's protracted review of the uJV's unanimously agreed revised full field development plan (RFFDP) and extension application has compromised the likelihood that production can recommence prior to the expiry of the PY-3 PSC.
· PY-3 - The arbitration tribunal, overseeing the arbitration between HEPI and the other uJV partners, is expected to issue a decision prior to end 2018.
· GS-01 - It is expected that GS-01 will continue to be mired in a pending dispute over unfinished minimum work programme between the UOI and the Operator (Reliance).
Alasdair Locke, Chairman of Hardy, commented: "Our considerable efforts to enforce the CY-OS/2 Arbitration Award, handed down in 2013, have not produced a meaningful outcome. The UOI has consistently been allowed to adopt strategies to frustrate the enforcement process by the judicial institutions in India, UK and US. Consequently, we are now curtailing funding to the wholly owned Indian subsidiary HEPI and reviewing our strategic objectives for the Group which could include one or more of individual asset sales, a sale of HEPI and a sale of the ongoing CY-OS/2 litigation. I will report back the conclusions of this review to shareholders in due course."