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I decided to start this thread due to the lack of interest via the other thread?
Today EEN with its partner GPX released what can only be described as outstanding news, a 3rd appraisal well in a field couple of kms across flowed 3420bo on a small choke, unaided and they still have not found the limits of this field. Reserves will released in the next 3 weeks and could go as high as 100mbo(speculative).
The market has yet to digest this latest news and imo the SP is still in the bargain range?

http://www.emeraldenergy.com
http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=200812220700095529K
http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=200901260700092060M
http://www.emeraldenergy.com/documents/20090126EENInvestorPresentation.pdf/
http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=200902110700131142N
http://www.emeraldenergy.com/documents/EEN2008Results.pdf
http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=200905060700127309R
http://www.emeraldenergy.com/documents/EENInvestorPrentation/May2009.pdf

cyril

Sold out am, would have liked more but all in all happy my return. A 4 bagger in 19 months from starting this thread, wish i could achieve that more often and for me makes the case for investing as against trading.
aimho
cyril

Cyril, I may be missing something here but I thought the offer was for 7.50 per share which would also mean no charges to pay, so why sell now?

because there is a time element which is why the discount of sp to offer.
cyril probaly feels he can put the money to better use elsewhere

cyril .... as no one else will, please tell me what is the actual difference between trading and investing? ......
in both cases, one judges the entry and the exit point, hopefully with a profit ......
if you just go to sleep on a share (passive investor), as many do, there is a greater risk that a paper profit will turn into a bigger paper loss - there are a zillion examples of exactly that ......
if you are an active investor, then you can equally make wrong calls, but with discipline, will cut losses when they start to run away and sometimes cash in profits prematurely - only known with hindsight of course

A trader will only own a share very short-term, maybe a couple of minutes even. I have little interest in what a company does, I try and make my money and then get out and if I get out too quickly then so be it. An investor by definition is investing in the company and will generally hold the share for much longer.

In time terms, where one rolls into another is of course a grey area. I suggest you trade shares rather than invest in them.

DD ..... i think of myself as an active investor! ...... by and large, i too have little interest in what a company does, but try to make what i deem to be a respecatble profit .... this will vary, for obvious reasons and of course i make some real stinker calls too ...... dealing almost exclusively in CFDs, at least i do not have time strictures, though of course being leveraged, they can be verfy dangerous - which is why i generally reduce my portfolio when travelling

Unfortuately I am sad enough to sit here for most of the day ...

Thanks Cynic didn't want to be missing anything!

well this thread can really now be wound up so it'll do for a bit of idle chit chat

Maggie d/d has answered your question,thinking of investing my stake in
CEY (now they are below 90p),also many times i've seen such shares drop in the hope of bored holders losing patience, afterall wer're talking 2% tops?

cynic; you make some good points regarding trading/investing and i;ve over the years experienced both.For myself more investing than trafing as i'm not very good at s/term calls.
Lets take EEN as a prime example,read the header post,which in my oppinion made it imo an outstanding investment,little risk while a hugh upside. Others include KAH(which i sold much to early,31p to 84p) AFR along
with CHL. Of coutse your right to keep an eye on such stock,but it takes away the stress of short term trading.
cyril
P.S.
I'm interested in any suggestions for stock with the above qualifications

Thanks Cyril, It now takes me sooooooooooooooo long to invest in anything (used to jump in where angles fear to tread but have learned the hard way) I think I've time to wait for offer.

i think you could make far worse choices than CEY.

for myself, despite KB's little hissy fit, i am just about to have another look and BDEV, RDW, WOS and SVS and see which one (or two) looks to be the best buy or to have the best prospects ..... SVS is a probable, but a company that either physically builds or has a connection to same is another likelihood

Cyril, might I suggest TMZ and IOG, both of whom look on the `UP` and should do well in their respective fields over the course of the next 6 months / year. Particularly TMZ who are linked with IMG support and have recently taken Richard Sykes ( Sir ) at helm who I know is a very capable individual.
Only a suggestion but worth looking at.
Glad to see EEN have done well but I had 2m at one time when they were 2p and have no idea what the consolidation was as was `typically` scared when consolidation was muted and got rid of the lot !!! probably missed out an some thousands there methinks ??? good luck anyway

imo, they're both shit and wouldn't touch either, not even with yours!

Thanks for your suggestions,i'll take a look w/end.
cyril

cyril
SEY worth a look

This is where EEN Director are going

Waterford supplying the funds

Board to be strengthened with the addition of Alastair Beardsall as Executive
Chairman and Keith Henry as a Non-executive Director.

9. Proposed Board
As part of the Proposals it is currently envisaged that, conditional upon the
passing of the Resolutions at the EGM, Alastair Beardsall will join the board of
the Company as Executive Chairman. The Placing is conditional upon the
appointment of Alastair Beardsall.

Emerald Energy Plc
20 August 2009

Colombia - Capella Field Operations Update

Emerald Energy Plc ('Emerald' or the 'Company') is pleased to provide the following update on operations in the Ombu block in Colombia.

Slim-hole Well Drilling Operations

Drilling operations have commenced on Capella No.SH1, the first of two slim-hole wells planned to be drilled in the Capella field to further delineate the extent of the upper Mirador sand. The Capella No.6 well encountered net potential hydrocarbon pay of 80 feet in the upper Mirador sand, greatly exceeding the previously recorded maximum net thickness of 23 feet encountered in the Capella No.2 well.

Slim-hole wells are designed to recover continuous core samples through the target formations and may be logged using special slim-hole logging tools, but cannot be utilised as production wells. As they can be drilled at substantially lower cost than a larger bore well designed for production, they are suited to cost-effective delineation of reservoir thickness in certain areas of the Capella field.

The Capella No.SH1 slim-hole well is located approximately 1.6 kilometres to the north-west of the Capella No.6 well and is expected to intersect the upper Mirador sands deeper on the structure. The well is planned to take up to one month to drill and evaluate but, as this is the Company's first such operation, may take longer.

The second slim-hole well, Capella No.SH2, is planned to be located approximately 2.5 kilometres to the south-west of the Capella No.6 well and to commence drilling after operations are completed on the Capella No.SH1 well.

Steam Injection Testing

A mobile steam generation facility has been procured and mobilised to the Capella field. The Company is currently finalising the design of a steam injection and flow testing programme, based on the results of all the well information acquired to date, to test the effectiveness of steam injection in enhancing well production rates and ultimate recovery from the reservoir. This testing programme is expected to commence during the fourth quarter of 2009.

Production Testing

The Capella field produced at an average oil rate of 255 barrels per day during the second quarter of 2009 and 284 barrels per day during July, with production levels remaining limited by market constraints.

General

The Company has been notified by the Ministry of Environment that an environmental permit has been granted for the conduct of exploration activities in the area to the north of the Capella wells drilled to date in the Ombu block; this area, previously identified as the northern environmental permit area will, in future, be known as Romero and the southern environmental permit area will continue to be known as Capella.

The Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos ('ANH') has notified Canacol Energy Inc. ('Canacol') that the assignment of a 10 per cent working interest in the Ombu Contract has been completed. This working interest was assigned to Canacol following the fulfilment of its obligations under the farmout agreement between Canacol and Emerald, entered into prior to the drilling of the first exploration well.

Emerald's Chief Executive Officer, Angus MacAskill, said:

'We are very pleased with the continued progress in the Capella field and look forward to the results of the slim-hole delineation wells, steam injection testing, and the previously announced horizontal well, all planned to commence this year, which together are expected to materially assist in planning the development of the Capella field.'



Thanks to all for your suggestions,topped up in CEY,i feel to be in gold at present is safe(ish) and SP at present attractive, couple that with production now underway, so hopefully it should break through the 1 barrier in the not to distant future? Also my funds are inside an ISA.
cyril

cyril

Good luck I have held CEY since Jan 2004

I have not sold my Emeralds yet hoping for a counter bid

Is there any evidence of such a bid,or is it wishful thinking?
TIA
cyril

cyril

I would think a bit early yet,7.50 does seem to cheap

How should Shareholders Vote?

Editorial on the blog:

http://emerald-energy-een.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-should-emerald-energy-shareholders.html