Desire Petroleum

<>Desire Petroleum plc (Desire) is a UK company listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) dedicated to exploring for oil and gas in the North Falkland Basin.

Desire has recently completed a 6 well exploration programme. The Liz well encountered dry gas and gas condensate at 2 separate levels while other wells recorded shows.
Together with the Rockhopper Exploration Sea Lion oil discovery in the licence to the north, these wells have provided significant encouragement for the potential of the North Falkland Basin. The oil at Sea Lion is of particular interest as this has demonstrated that oil is trapped in potentially significant quantities in a fan sandstone on the east flank of the basin. It is believed that over 50% of this east flank play fairway is on Desire operated acreage.

Desire has now completed new 3D seismic acquisition which provides coverage over the east flank play, Ann, Pam and Helen prospects. The results from fast-track processing of priority areas are provided in the 2011 CPR. A farm-out to Rockhopper has been announced. The revised equities are shown on the licence map (subject to regulatory approval and completion of the farm-in well). Desire Petroleum

Rockhopper Exploration

British Geological Survey

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Depends if he is at the front or the back of the aircraft !.

long haul i only ever travel at the sharp end

well its racing away today as thought......not a share like it on the stockmarket that has its own mind....intresting times at moment as they should be drilling in to Liz or very near it.......are there oil shows?....the last shell well drilled was free flowing and was capped its a shame it was $10 a barrel back then.

No it isn't !....we would not be drilling it today and I would not have shares in DES.....

I think the chances are much greater 50/50 for me - still a gamble but then there's several holes to drill and only takes one to be a gusher.

I spoke to soon she is going backwards now with more buys to sells.......soooooooooo glad am not a day trader as i would be broke!!

Come on Desire.....get your arse in to gear!!!!!!

presumably news from the Ocean Guardian is still negative.

The only negative is you Halifax,every thing on the OG is going to plan....so dont worry your little cotton socks.

no news good news? for now anyway but must be getting close (another 10days max)

no news is no news for none expected just yet

no doubt those working on OG will be keeping thir friends infomed so no news means no oil/gas.

think we got a little more time yet....even if you have friends working down there...what is another 10 days or so......

Everyone is becoming very nervous with T-? days & counting.
Trust no one is over exposed just in case the results are disappointing?

Whilst I have no knowledge of O&G platform procedures, I think it highly unlikely that rig personnel will be allowed unfettered access to communication systems. Certainly I would imagine their T&Cs would include disclosure of sensitive information criteria and their only form of communication will be via satellite phone or internet, both of which can be vetted (the FIs does have a mobile telephone system but the rig is out of range).

Premature to say with certainty butam inclined to agree with halifax / good news travels fastest.- via the most diverse routes . eg- can use sat fone boss its my kids b/day 8-)).../.-Bad news -well everyone remembers how PET stalled the issue of crap news ............../ Regardless of communications good news always gets out.............. reg trading- no indicators there- even stevens,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,edit

while no news is still no news, for sure if there had been early and unexpected oil, it would have leaked(!!) out

TFC, guess you're referring to the use of a carrier pigeon? Daresay, you're right though, even the military have problems keeping a lid on on unwelcome news. The Chandler kidnap incident being a case in point.

......Carrier pidgeons? Sheeesh YUK !...had a neighbour years ago who had a squadron of them.... Sh** everywhere ...Everybodies roof within a 100 metre radius was white

If they hit gas/oil this early in the drilling, that would mean that all the seismic data was way out, which would not bode well for future wells, so the comment, 'No news means no oil/gas' is as expected.

Looking at how the sp is going, anyone would think you hit the sea bed with a pick-axe and hey presto oil gushes out.

looks like a short (if you can get one) with a tight stop loss.