GOLD OIL, the London-based oil exploration company focused on the South American and Caribbean region, announces that in late December 2005, the Company received an Operator Certificate from PeruPetro that allows the Company to carry out seismic, drilling and development operations in Northwest Peru.
The Promotion Licence signed with PeruPetro on October 15, 2004 with PeruPetro for Block XI (now renamed Block XXI) onshore Sechura Basin has been converted to an Exploration and Production Licence. The Licence now goes to the Ministry of Energy and Mines for approval, which could be forthcoming anytime between February and May of this year 2006.
The terms of the E&P Licence commit the Company to either shoot 120 km of 2D seismic or drill a well in the first period of five over a seven year term. The remaining four periods require the Company to either drill a well or drop the acreage. The Licence is for a term of 30 years for oil and 40 years for gas, with a minimum royalty of 5% on wellhead production for the first 5000bopd (30 MMscfd for gas) rising to 20% if and when production reaches 100,000 bopd (600 MMscfd for gas).

Times Article:
Gold Oil is valued in the market at about �15m. That is so small that almost any good news must have a big impact on the share price.
What are the chances of that happening? Run by a former Burmah Oil director, Mike Burchell, Gold Oil will drill the first in a series of wells in the Sechura Basin in April. There will be surprise if it does not find gas, as another company, Olympic, has done just that in a similar formation nearby.
The secondary target, later in the year, will be oil, I gather. A couple of months ago, Petro Tech made a big oil find offshore in the Sechura Basin. The theory is the oil may have migrated up into Gold Oil�s block. Don�t ask me to explain the geology because I don�t speak Palaeozoic. But a decent oil find here would be a company-maker.
Gold Oil has enough cash to fund this year�s drilling programme. And it already has a deal in place to sell its gas to Mann Ferrostaal, a German company that is building an ammonia plant nearby. Getting all that for �15m seemed a bargain to me. But Gold Oil still has to find its gas.

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6 AUG 2009 Operational and Reserves & Resources Update Colombia & Peru
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So lets get down to the nitty gritty. We have an RNS stating that they have found hydrocarbons over a 250ft span, 90% of which (225ft) are in one zone. Not bad, eh? If we look at the possible area of the field, times the depth, then we could have one hellova size oilfield. Flow rates will need to be proved to be commercial,and of course, it will require much more appraisal to find exactly the extent of the field, but isn't that much better than last week, when we were merely hoping to find something? I think its fantastic news. Then we have the gas prospect too. There is not just one Verdun sands, but 2 layers, and the total pay zones are much thicker that our neighbours. I think things are really looking great, and have the potential to make us all a heck of a lot of money.

Ok, we have drilled a mite too far, and water is entering the well. So what? Do you honestly believe that our world is gonna collapse? Do you really believe they can't stop it? Do you really believe they don't know anything about plugging it? C'mon!!! Give me a break!!! We have a first class team in the company, and something like we encountered today is so commonplace, it is just routine, and can be fixed, just like your average car.

So lets relax a little, and enjoy the scenario of maybe a nice prospect in view here.

Taken from ADVFN.

Sorry to read about your tanking, Janet (been there myself bigtime with Stanelco's meteoric collapse!). I nearly bought GOO a week ago but hesitated after the sp had risen so much recently. Done a fair bit of research since then and, for what it's worth, even if this morning's RNS causes more selling, I tend to agree with earlier posters in that the huge upside potential still exists. It may drop a bit more this week but if it goes towards 9p then might be worth buying again? I would be tempted at that price, I think.

Not an expert by any means here, missed the run-up from 11p to 15p and was out when early profit-taking last week but prefered to wait the news after that. Got lucky I guess for once but now reading the RNS I would tend to agree that there is possibly a large discovery but that the sp may settle in range 9-12p until Goo can do two things, test the hydrocarbon layer and prevent the water flow to confirm commercial flow rates, hopefully they can achieve both. Today I guess the risk and reward both got higher, depends on your view, attitude and position I suppose as to what to do now. Recent weeks on boards suggested inevitability of large find, well now it seems you might have it but can it be extracted? Good luck.

Markus, me too. Will pick best price I can as there still seems large upside potential.

As always, a RNS takes time to digest. I have Investigate Alert set up and received notification of the news marginally before it appeared on MAM. My initial reaction on reading 'water' was it's gonna tank, but delayed fractionally to assess the market reaction. Once the first sells appeared it was a no brainer to follow suit. Unfortunately for some holders, panic set in with the herd mentality and drove the price down. Now the dust has settled, it would appear that the RNS may be very good news indeed. For that reason, if true, I don't expect the SP to hit 9p again anytime soon. Mind you this could be something of a DCB so who knows? What I do know is that I now have more shares than I did this morning and that they are all profit anyway :-)

pth

Good call, Pete - you appear to have traded it almost perfectly this morning! You know this stock far better than myself but the fact that it's already edging its way back up suggests more than a "dead cat bounce" to me?

News coming out from ERX re Guardian article on cure on cancer..

DYOR

However, if PTH is right, then expect it to slide a bit more tomorrow - Thursday.............?

Taken from ADVFN.


What you also may have failed to notice, is that as the well was able to flow nearly 1000 bbls water, it means there is strong natural water drive. This is very important for the recovery of hydrocarbons.

Once the well, or future wells are completed in the hydrocarbon zone (do we know if it is oil or gas?), then as the hydrocarbon is removed, natural water drive replaces it. This prevents the need for expensive water injection, and helps to uplift the overall recovery factor. The water actually pushes the oil / gas out of the wells.

The RNS is actually very good news, tempered by the possibility of a cock-up of where in the sequence the well was actually tested. If it had been logged, then the water zone is easy to spot from the hydrocarbons (water conducts electricity - low resistance. Oil / gas do not conduct electricity, high resistivity), so the testing programme should have been more selective and the water should have been cased off.

Do not be put off.

I have no technical knowledge but sounds great!
Both Oil and Gas together have been suggested.

Markus

Rather than getting too excited about my posts, I do try to keep them balanced, both upside and downside. Now things have settled down a bit, I do believe that the RNS is more good than bad, significantly more, but I do not have the technical expertise to back that up. I suggest this may be something of a DCB because a lot of people may not be aware of the RNS just yet. There is always a possibilty that when they do, the SP could be driven down once more. However, I don't think that will happen, certainly not as far as 9p, most of the bigger players will have done their stuff this morning and of course the bounce has probably something to do with shorts being closed out. Always difficult to guage market sentiment, personally I wouldn't like to chose an entry level at the moment.

pth

Markus , are you in yet ? under 10 is a good buy .

i think the mkt was expecting more confirmation about outcome today. as we know these things take time.

Wow! had to go shopping and missed all the action. Will wait to see if share price drifts lower over the coming days/weeks to see if it's worth building my stake back up.

Should be some chunky late trades today, purely of interest though, cos with the exception of the MMs and investors/traders no-one will have a scooby as to buys or sells :-)

I have sold today & locked in 20% profit.
Why is the general consensus opinion that the price will dip again to 9p?
Of course, if it does I will be back in again!
Surely those that saw the news this morning have already done the deed, those that didn't have missed the boat. Most short positions will have been realised. Possibly a few late comers tonight who have to think what to do tomorrow, but not enough to drop the SP by 20%???
Wishfull thinking by some or accurate chart analysis?

No, not in yet, Fliper. But still keeping a close eye on what happens during the rest of the week........

Yes, under 10p would be a safe enough buy, I agree. But will it break below 10p again, that is the question?

Harry

TA has gone out of the window mostly with today's news. There is chart support at 10p which will be the first safety net. So there may be a buying opportunity round about that sort of level dependant on sentiment. I would expect the next few days to see all the 'experts' chucking in their opinion as to the exact translation of today's RNS. Hopefully amongst all the dross there will be a real expert. There will also be a number of shorters attempting to drive the SP down curiously aligned with a number of others wanting to drive the SP down, but so that they can buy at a cheaper level. I would imagine an awful lot of the T+ brigade closed today and I doubt they will re-enter the fray until a new time scale of testing is determined. So all in all, a number of issues to affect the SP and I for one, don't have a clue as to which way it will go in the short term; long term I am happy to sit on my increased holding (thanks to today's volatility) and wait for all the other news.

pth

PTH
Well done on your trading today like I said I now have a few more shares like yourself, I have just got back in and the sp is better than when I went out lets see what tomorrow brings.

Thanks Driver, well done to you also.
I'm gonna be away for quite a while now so it can do what it wants over the next 3 months or so. I shall have a peek now and again, but that's all.
Good luck one and all.

pth