RE: Director sell27 Sep 2023 14:40
If they didn’t get into a terribly negotiated drilling contract with the operator, catastrophically so, in this case, taking dilution of the whole company into account, TXP as a company would be a lot better off. A lot of sensible posters here noted that at the time, and received the same sort of childish attacking replies.
They were forced to drill Royston because of that, instead of drilling into a known formation a few months later, increasing production, sales and likely booked reserves.
If you have a large, know, producing, cash flow generative formation, esp. the calibre of Cas, maximize it before going forwards. ABCs in this space.
A speculative Royston could then have been drilled out of FCF with little impact to shareholders. It did provide lots of cheap options to management though…
The longer this stays low for the management to accumulate options before the drill turns in Cascudura again the better for them. Look through their eyes.