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Brisbane-based Linc Energy released two reports on Wednesday stating that drilling and seismic exploration indicates the Arckaringa Basin surrounding Coober Pedy could contain anywhere between 3.5 and 233 billion barrels of oil.
Nice trade.
I took the second elevator down... short at $2.64. Bought back half at $2.54 and now just trailing the stop at a 6c step.
It wopuldn't surprise me to see it down a good 8-12% from yesterday's close.
All out at 238. Picked up 18 ticks from a range of 60 odd
3.5 to 233 :silly:
I have it as a low strength support area, it may hold but I doubt it will. We blew through it to the upside easily, I suspect it will cave to the downside just as easily.
Does anyone else think the Shale Oil announcement has too much blue sky ? That it has been marketed to a largely unsophisticated investing public that only see the (possible) 22 billions barrels of oil reserves and don't realise this is a very uncertain and long term proposition ?
It seems to me that every paper in the country is carrying the Press Release as a popular news story rather than a financial one. The result seems to be self fulfilling bubble. Perhaps its a neat way to justify to the Chinese the proposed $4.50 a share for the UCG/GTL project
I believe LNC has some very valuable assets and will be well worth its price. I'm just not convinced that this latest jump is based on a realistic deal.
May well be overdone as most of the shale in the Arckaringa has a mining license issued to China's largest company CNOOC and all of the area south of Coober Pedy has a mining license issued to Australia's White Energy Limited WEC, and Western Plains Resources WPG holds licenses to the East at Penhryn.
So let me get this straight. Linc Energy, a small company with limited experience, has supposedly found up to 233 billion barrels of oil.
To put that into perspective it's a bit more than has been found in the entire USA, which has thus far produced more oil than any other country, over the past 150+ years of oil exploration. It's far larger than the North Sea and larger than Ghawar (Saudi Arabia), the largest known oil field in the world.
Day tripping shorters exiting? Could be a volatile start to the week next week!
Noirua, are you saying that CNOOC and WEC particularly have mining licenses that overlap LNC's Petroleum Exploration licenses in the Arckaringa basin ?
If that is the case, wouldn't the PEL's have preference for shale oil ?
Do you have any references for the other companies' mining licenses ?
I can't see any big mining leases in that area shown on this Sth Aust Govt site - https://sarig.pir.sa.gov.au/Map
CNOOC interest in The Arckaringa Basin:
http://asaconference.com.au/files/2...nergy-ASA-Conference-Brisbane-28-Aug-2012.pdf
WECs Interest is larger than England:
http://www.abload.de/img/woomera-review-map-mme6t.png
Western Plains Resources - Penhryn:
WPG Resources - Peculiar Knob
http://www.westernplainsresources.com.au/projects-peculiar-knob.html
Thanks for those references Noirua .
I note that they are only mineral exploration licenses to date and in the case of Altona
only a small part of the Arckaringa Basin.
My understanding is that they don’t cover exploration for oil (incl Shale Oil).
It is obvious that the PELs and MELs overlap. Hopefully the SA Govt has a better
process for resolving any competing claims for ground than the Qld Govt has so far
between Coal Seam Gas tenements and those of UCG.
As for the other posters, I suggest you read all of the latest announcement-
http://www.lincenergy.com/data/asxpdf/ASX-LNC-458.pdf
and also read Peter Bond’s comment regarding the “$20 Trillion “ headlines
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/bus...nc-oil-find-20130124-2d8zf.html#ixzz2IrThlnpZ
And finally the LNC find is Oil Shale not Shale Oil. There is a big difference. DYOR.
PS Noirua, the voting on Stock Forums has closed.
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