ARRIA NLG plc is a software development business. Its target is to be the global leader in the development and deployment of mission critical, core industrial, enterprise level Natural Language Generation software technologies. Natural Language Generation (NLG) is the computerised process of analysing and converting Big Data into actionable information.

The Group's core product is known as the Arria NLG Engine.

Global corporations are having to deal with an ever-growing amount of data resulting from the digitisation of transactions and industrial processes and from technological advancements in data capture. Computer networks are now producing and storing digital data at such a rate that this data is becoming increasingly difficult to be fully utilised. This development and the challenge to make optimal use of this data has become known as "Big Data".

The market opportunity for the Arria NLG Engine has grown substantially through the emergence of the Big Data phenomenon.

The Arria NLG Engine is a form of artificial intelligence, specialised in communicating information which is extracted from complex data sources in natural language (i.e. as if written by a human).

The Arria NLG Engine comprises of two main elements:
•an analytics component that is programmed to embody the expert knowledge of the domain in which it operates; and
•a natural language generation component, which embodies the skill required to communicate information articulately using natural language.


This combination of analytics and natural language generation means it can be used to automatically generate written reports in potentially any language for any audience that reads as if written by a person expert in their field. The Directors believe that the Arria NLG Engine provides value where many Big Data analytical tools are limited at the human-machine interface, being the point at which analytic results are communicated to humans.

The Arria NLG Engine automatically communicates results, not in numbers or graphics that may require further analysis and explanation, but in narratives that are designed to read as if written by a human expert. Although it is early days for the Group’s business, its technology is already deployed in a mission critical environment, monitoring large scale industrial machinery located on oil and gas production platforms in deepwater Gulf of Mexico for a major global oil and gas company and at a government national weather service.

The scientific foundation for the Arria NLG Engine has been developed over the past four years, but is based on more than 20 years of research and knowledge gained by the Data2Text Founders at the University of Aberdeen.

In 2009, the University of Aberdeen, Prof. Ehud Reiter, Dr. Yaji Shripada, Ian Davy and John Perry formed Data2Text Limited to develop and commercialise various NLG technologies.

Since 2009, the Data2Text science and technology team has continued to develop the commercial potential of its NLG software technologies culminating in the Arria NLG Engine.

Arria has been working with Data2Text since May 2012 when it acquired a 20 per cent. interest in Data2Text and was granted an option to acquire the remaining 80 per cent. On 25 October 2013 Arria acquired the remaining 80 per cent. of Data2Text.


https://www.arria.com/

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Launch of NLG Engine 3.0

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RNS Number : 4399X

Arria NLG PLC

13 January 2014








13 January 2014

Arria NLG Plc

("Arria", the "Company" or the "Group")



Launch of NLG Engine 3.0



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces the release of the Arria NLG Engine 3.0. This latest version of Arria's NLG engine has the ability to integrate graphical information derived from big data sources with the existing NLG reporting capabilities to provide even more effective decision-support.

Feedback from Arria's clients highlighted the considerable value of embedding NLG generated alerts into a graphical interface environment in real time. As a result of this tight integration, reports produced by the new Arria NLG 3.0 engine support faster, more effective decision-making in high intensity operational environments.

Scientific research on intensive care units conducted by the founding scientists of Arria at the University of Aberdeen (between 2006 and 2010) concluded that medical staff made better decisions when presented with reports that include a combination of text and graphics.

The findings of that research have resulted in these capabilities being translated for use in the Oil and Gas industry. When an equipment alert signals the existence of a problem, the combination of text and annotated graphics makes it easier and quicker for an engineer to understand what the condition of that equipment is and to make the right decision at the right time.

Arria currently has several patents pending in relation to the Arria NLG Engine 3.0.

Professor Ehud Reiter, Chief Scientist of Arria commented:

"Our research shows that in a decision-support context, some types of information are best presented via graphics and some types via text, with the effectiveness of each modality being dependent upon context such as the expertise of the user and the fault in question.



"The new capabilities of the Arria NLG Engine allow Arria systems to present information in a combination of text and graphics, using the optimal modality. The configurability allows the intelligent optimisation of modalities to be externally specified by domain experts. This more effective information presentation leads to better and quicker decision making."

Presentation at SPE Conference 2014

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05 March 2014






5 March 2014

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Arria to give presentation at SPE Intelligent Energy Conference 2014



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces that the Company will present at the Society of Petroleum Engineers ("SPE") 2014 Intelligent Energy Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands on 3 April 2014.

Arria will present in a session entitled "Enhancing Value Through Technology" discussing Big Data innovations to improve risk management and decision support. Arria's Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Robert Dale, and Tom A. Moroney, Deepwater Technology Deployment & Geoscience Expertise Manager for Shell Upstream Americas, will present "The Articulate Machine: Natural Language Generation Decision Support".

The SPE conference, which is sponsored in 2014 by BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and Tessella, is one of the industry's most important events bringing together over 2,400 Oil & Gas industry professionals. The conference focuses on cutting edge technologies and developments in the field of intelligent energy with presentations by industry and academic experts.

Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arria, commented, "As far as the Company is concerned, no other event attracts such a large and expert audience in the field of intelligent energy.

"We are scheduled to present alongside Shell's Tom Moroney, who co-authored the conference paper with Arria, and we are delighted to have this opportunity to showcase our innovative technology for a group of key industry players and decision makers."

Up another 9%, 86p - 105p in two days . Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces that the Company will present at the Society of Petroleum Engineers ("SPE") 2014 Intelligent Energy Conference in Utrecht, Netherlands on 3 April 2014.

New Data Science Framework Software Release

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RNS Number : 3819F

Arria NLG PLC

24 April 2014






24 April 2014

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Arria to release new Data Science Framework software at co-hosted Pumps and Pipes event in Houston



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces it will co-host a special Data Science event in Houston on April 30, 2014, where Chief Scientist Professor Ehud Reiter will release novel Data Science Framework software that provides improved knowledge capture of subject matter expertise into artificial intelligence software. Pumps and Pipes, who are co-hosting the event with Arria, is a unique Houston-based technology interchange between the Oil and Gas, Medicine and Aerospace industries. The event will be attended by both oil and gas engineers and medical clinicians, the two professions that will be the first to benefit from the new software.

The Arria NLG Engine is a cutting-edge technology that works with big data sets and disparate structured data to generate natural language narratives that support faster and higher quality expert decision-making. Initial applications of the technology that are already live include an on-demand site-specific UK weather reporting service as well as oil and gas facilities surveillance in the Gulf of Mexico. Arria's new Data Science Framework enhances these solutions by allowing for easier connection to disparate big data sets, higher quality analytics, and faster knowledge capture of subject matter expertise into operational software.

Professor Reiter says Arria's Data Science Framework has arisen from requests from both engineers and doctors who want to fill the gap in the big data industry by streamlining the twin processes of capturing the knowledge of their subject matter experts and applying this knowledge to make sense of multiple data streams. "We hear the same message from Chief Petroleum Engineers in the Middle East as we do from cardiovascular surgeons in the USA: subject matter expertise is their most valued asset. So by reducing the time it takes to capture this expertise and the time it takes to make sense of the data, our new Data Science Framework speeds up the development of applications that automate insights and generate narratives, adding an unprecedented capability for faster and higher quality decision support."

Professor Reiter, who co-wrote the definitive book on building Natural Language Generation systems in the 1990s with his Arria colleague, Dr Robert Dale, says, "When you look at what else is out there in both medicine and oil and gas, the only significant contender we keep bumping up against is IBM Watson. But IBM Watson is a very expensive product that aims to provide a universal solution to the general problem of answering questions, whereas our goal is to help doctors and engineers make faster and higher quality decisions by giving them natural language explanations of what's going on. We go beyond answering questions to tell the stories that are hidden in the data."

Alan Lumsden, founder of Pumps and Pipes, Professor & Chairman Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Director Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, says "We are delighted to have Professor Reiter speaking at a Pumps and Pipes event where our motto is 'the solution to my problem is in someone else's toolkit'. I have had a look inside Arria's toolkit and I'm sure if our members can unlock the value hidden in our data the Arria way our industries will be transformed. Data Science is the new frontier and I'm convinced, one day we will look back and wonder how we ever functioned without natural language generation technology assisting our decision-making."

3 year Agreement with Shell

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RNS Number : 8796H

Arria NLG PLC

23 May 2014






23 May 2014

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Arria signs 3-year Agreement with Shell for NLG deployment



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces a new 3-year agreement between its wholly-owned subsidiary, Arria Data2Text Limited, and Shell Exploration & Production Company ("Shell").

This agreement provides Arria with annual fees for non-exclusive use of the Arria NLG Engine to expand NLG decision support technologies to Shell's offshore platforms across parts of the Americas, plus the adoption of Arria's NLG services expanding from existing Facilities NLG narratives to further service categories in upstream operations across parts of the Americas.

Upon full performance of the agreement, which is effective from 1 June 2014, Shell undertakes to pay Arria US$5-10 million over three years. A large proportion of these fees are annual and ongoing base licence and use-per-platform fees for Facilities NLG narratives to offshore platforms in parts of the Americas. One-time configuration and deployment fees payable upon agreed milestones are also included in the agreement, and the fee structure makes provision for deployment and usage beyond the Americas.

Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG plc, commented:

"We are pleased to announce this agreement because it reinforces our existing relationship with Shell and provides us the ability to expand our technology across Shell's operating units. Our investment in R&D has helped our technology evolve and today it is more mature, scalable and adaptable than ever. Our articulate intelligence solutions aim to increase profits, lower risk and improve operations for our customers. The benefits and the scalability will help with the faster deployment of our technology within Shell."

The Arria NLG Engine:

The Arria NLG Engine is software at the frontier of Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Computational Linguistics.

Key features:

- It allows Arria clients to capture in software the human expertise used in both analysing data and in communicating the information that data contains.

- This makes it possible to automatically write reports that are indistinguishable from those that the

human expert would write about outlier-based alerts in the data.

- But because the knowledge is embodied in software, it produces results in seconds rather than in

hours, and it can be replicated, scaled up, and made available globally, 24/7/365.

Interim Results

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RNS Number : 4287J

Arria NLG PLC

12 June 2014








Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Interim Results for the six months ended 31 March 2014











Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces its Interim Results for the six months ended 31 March 2014.



Operational highlights



● Extended existing agreement with oil & gas super-major client into 2014 with subsequent announcement in May 2014 of new three year agreement

● UK Met Office adds NLG-authored narratives to its 5 day forecasts on its Met Invent website

● Growing awareness of NLG in the oil & gas industry - invited to present key-note speech and participate at Society of Petroleum Engineers conferences in Dubai & Utrecht

● Significant and experienced appointments made to Group Board and management team

● Michael Higgins & Paul Kidney appointed as Non-Executive Directors to Arria's Board

● Christopher Messina appointed in New York as Senior Vice President, Business Development to expand Arria's Financial Services practice

● Continued progress made in development of the Group's patent program

● Completion of Arria NLG Studio and launch of the Language Factory

● Deployment of version 3.0 of the Arria NLG Engine

Financial

● Revenues up 57% to £330k (£210k HY13)

● Operating costs excluding amortisation and share based payment charges down 20% to £3.9 million (£4.9 million HY13)

● Concluded second 2013 private placement raising c.US$15.8 million

● Completed the acquisition of Data2Text Limited for consideration of £3.125 million in cash and issue of ordinary shares equivalent to approximately 22.59% of the share capital of the Company

● Completed introduction of Arria's ordinary shares and warrants to trading on the London Stock Exchange ("LSE") AIM market ("AIM")



Commenting on the results, Stuart Rogers, Arria Chairman and Chief Executive, said:



"Arria has delivered significant progress during the first half of this financial year in successfully executing the Company's strategic plan. Primary accomplishments being the successful conclusion of the acquisition of Data2Text Limited in October 2013, followed by the admission to trading of the Company's shares on the London AIM market in December 2013 - both of which position the Group well to grow and optimise the commercial realisation of its owned Natural Language Generation technologies."

Agreement with Leading Aviation Systems Provider

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RNS Number : 1746U

Arria NLG PLC

14 October 2014








14 October 2014

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Proof of Concept Agreement with a Leading Systems Provider to the Aviation Industry



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces a new collaborative proof of concept agreement with a leading provider of power systems controls intelligence to the aviation industry (the "POC Agreement").



The POC Agreement provides for a pilot application to use Arria's NLG technology for narrative summaries on the data generated by on-wing turbine engines. These data driven summaries will enable airline operations teams to further optimise their maintenance or refurbishment of jet engines.



The project should result in the more efficient handling of the vast amounts of inflight engine performance data, enabling the maintenance programmes to be conducted with greater efficiency and at a lower cost for both the service provider and the airline operators. Successful completion and acceptance of the pilot NLG application could lead to further development, deployment and licensing agreements and new revenue streams for Arria.



Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG plc, commented: "This is an exciting development for Arria in that this POC Agreement will leverage our extensive work with complex rotating equipment in the Oil & Gas Industry, developing applications in the Aviation Industry that will deliver efficiency gains and other cost benefits. Given turbines are such critical and widely deployed pieces of equipment in so many major industries - Oil & Gas, Aviation, Energy, and Defence - this agreement represents a significant opportunity to extend the reach of Arria's NLG applications. We welcome the opportunity to apply our scientific leadership and highly developed NLG Engine with a leading provider of power systems controls. Following a successful pilot application our intention is to progress to revenue earning contracts with this important new client."



The Arria NLG Engine:



The Arria NLG Engine is the software at the frontier of Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Computational Linguistics. Key features of the Arria NLG Engine include:



· allowing Arria clients to capture, in software, the human expertise used in both analysing data and in communicating the information that data contains;

· making it possible to automatically write reports that are indistinguishable from those that a human expert would write to convey actionable conclusions; and

· because the knowledge is embodied in software, the Arria NLG Engine produces results in seconds rather than hours and can be replicated, scaled up, and made available globally, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year.

New Agreement with Major Insurance Company
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Arria NLG PLC
15 January 2015





15 January 2015

Arria NLG plc

("Arria NLG" or the "Company")



New Agreement with Major Insurance Company



Arria NLG (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces a new framework agreement (the "Framework Agreement") with a major insurance company. Arria's newest client is one of the largest general insurers in Canada and a wholly-owned subsidiary of a global multinational insurance company.



The Framework Agreement provides for a pilot application to use Arria's NLG technology to create monthly management reporting on critical aspects of one of the insurance company's strategic business lines and forms the basis for deeper collaboration. The parties contemplate further development, deployment and licensing additions to the Framework Agreement upon successful completion of the pilot application, resulting in additional revenue streams for Arria NLG.



Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG, commented: "This agreement with one of the world's leading insurance companies is a great opportunity for Arria to expand its powerful Natural Language Generation technologies further into the Financial Services industry. Working with this insurance company, we will develop new forms of management reporting and help them gain greater insights by leveraging mission critical operational data from their internal applications.

"Arria's technology helps large corporations better understand what their data is trying to tell them, in a timely fashion, and in natural language reporting that is tailored to the various audiences within the company. All of those core capabilities and benefits are central in the initial project with this insurance company. This is Arria's second Financial Services client and its fifth new client in the past six months."

IBM Watson Partnership Agreement
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Arria NLG PLC
26 January 2015





26 January 2015

Arria NLG plc

("Arria NLG" or the "Company")



IBM WatsonTM Signs Partnership Agreement with Arria



Arria NLG (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces an early stage partnership with the IBM Watson Group.

As part of the Watson Developer Community, Arria NLG will prototype analytics products for the Oil and Gas sector. IBM Watson is a cognitive technology that processes information more like a human than a computer by understanding natural language, generating hypotheses based on evidence and learning as it goes.

Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG, commented: "We see strong commercial opportunity in the combination of IBM Watson's deep query functionality being combined with the Arria NLG Engine's ability to generate natural language and text. There are innumerable use cases in the oil and gas industry for our combined tool sets, which we look forward to pursuing with IBM Watson Group."

HAAAAAAAAAAAAA


26 Jan Westhouse... 94.00 Buy


Shares -Arria remains investment black hole


You don’t have to be Sherlock to recognise the coup that today’s Watson deal is for Arria NLG (NLG:AIM). It’s certainly got investors excited, the shares jumping 65% on Monday to 40.5p. Teaming up with the cognitive systems arm of ‘Big Blue’, or IBM (IBM:NYSE) to use its proper name, could lead to exciting new computing breakthroughs, maybe.

Watson is effectively IBM’s answer to future computing, using hypothesis generation, dynamic learning and natural language to think more like a human than a machine. It’s a fascinating branch of computer science, and one where Arria has developed some very interesting natural language generation technology of its own.

Arria

But fascinating does not earn revenues and there is a very real risk that neither will this partnership. Arria is currently trading on more than 30-times the piddling £2 million of revenues forecast for 2015 after today’s leap but is still roughly 40% below its £102 million IPO value in barely more than a year. It is also still saddled with the same old challenges. It’s very small, relies on barely a handful of customers, mainly in the battered oil industry, and is burning through wads of cash, more than £7 million last year to end September. It has £1.7 million left on its books which means investors can expect another cash call soon, possibly before April Fool’s Day. Sheer luck may play a big part in Arria’s future success hopes.

Five Year Licensing Agreement with FarmLink, LLC.
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02 March 2015





2 March 2015

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Five Year Licensing Agreement with FarmLink, LLC.



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces the successful completion of the Company's initial development agreement with FarmLink, LLC ("FarmLink").

The initial agreement with FarmLink was announced on 13 October 2014. Following the successful conclusion of that development project, the parties have entered into a five year revenue licensing agreement for Arria's NLG engine to be an integral part of FarmLink's service and data offerings.

The focus of this licencing agreement is on Arria's support for FarmLink's reporting services based on FarmLink's TrueHarvest data. The TrueHarvest model has evolved to provide valuable, field-level analysis to FarmLink's farmer clients and their agronomists. TrueHarvest is the first and only yield benchmarking service that accurately shows farmers the full range of performance potential for their fields and management zones. Arria's reporting application will use the TrueHarvest information to build the gap map and deliver agronomic insights in natural language reporting.

A Kansas City, Missouri based company, FarmLink offers an innovative and unique set of services to help farmers improve productivity and profitability. Through its TrueHarvest yield benchmarking service, FarmLink provides farmers and their advisors with precise, detailed and actionable comparisons that inform resource decisions, and help increase productivity and profit.

Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG plc, commented: "We are delighted to be deploying Natural Language Generation narratives for FarmLink's clients. The initial engagement work was completed in a matter of months, leading to this full licensing agreement. The licensing agreement is long term, has solid revenues that can grow over time with FarmLink's business and demonstrates the powerful value of harnessing Arria's NLG technology to the significant analytical tasks modern agriculture demands.

"The speed with which FarmLink's initial NLG application was completed is a testament to the continual evolution of Arria's NLG technology and to the significant capabilities of Arria's development team.

"Arria's NLG engine continues to evolve and its robust developer toolkit gives us a significant competitive edge in our ability to rapidly develop NLG applications. We continue to invest in the science of NLG, R&D, new functionality, application development and client support.

"Alongside this we have reduced our operating costs and plan to reduce future cost growth resulting from further contract wins by building an internally resourced offshoring component to our development capacity. FarmLink, our growing customer base and our shareholders will be beneficiaries of these cost management developments."

Scott Robinson, President of FarmLink, stated:

"Data has the power to change farming as we know it, but we must be able to make that data work for individual farmers in actionable ways. At FarmLink, we're doing just that by bringing benchmarking capabilities to farmers for the first time. Natural Language Generation allows FarmLink to scale its business of providing actionable insights to every corn, wheat or soybean farmer in America."

BG Group. Heads of Agreement
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RNS Number : 3164G
Arria NLG PLC
03 March 2015



3 March 2015

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Arria NLG and BG Group Sign Heads of Agreement



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces that BG Group plc has today signed a heads of agreement to research and evaluate the use of Arria's NLG engine and technologies for the real time narration of key asset performance, risk factors and predictive maintenance.

Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG plc, commented: "Arria NLG and BG Group have been in discussions for months regarding the potential use of Arria's NLG technology in a number of BG Group's global operations. The Oil & Gas industry is an early adopter of Arria's NLG technologies, it remains a key industry focus for us, and we look forward to a deepening relationship with BG Group."

Framework Licensing Agreement
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RNS Number : 1142I
Arria NLG PLC
23 March 2015





23 March 2015

Arria NLG plc

("Arria" or the "Company")



Framework Licensing Agreement with Global Financial Services Company



Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies, announces that it has entered into a Framework Licensing Agreement with a global financial services company, headquartered in Australia, for the purposes of creating automated reporting across financial services business lines.

This two year Framework Licensing Agreement allows for Arria's NLG Engine to be an integral part of the financial services company's research and reporting capabilities for improved customer and management reporting.

Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive of Arria NLG plc, commented: "We are delighted to welcome this global financial services company as a new client of Arria NLG, licensing our technology to deploy Natural Language Generation narratives that will help produce research and reporting for their personnel and customers. We look forward to helping them build on their long held reputation for innovation in the financial services industry by assisting them to succeed in their NLG ambitions.

This new Arria NLG client will be working closely with our Sydney-based NLG Development Centre, led by Dr Robert Dale, Arria NLG's Chief Technology Officer and Chief Strategy Scientist. This collaboration strengthens Arria NLG's presence in the Asia-Pacific Region."

was yesterday's dramatic drop due to a leak on below .....

Arria NLG said its contract with Shell Exploration & Production Company, which was announced on 23 May 2014, has been terminated by notice given by Shell in accordance with its terms.


i'm sorry to say that this is another company in the same sort of league as BLUR and WAND

One to avoid, although a great rise in the early days.


Shares -Interim results are due in June, but there’s a very good chance Arria might not make it that far.

Up 153% today, perhaps down 153% tomorrow . :-))

why-arria-nlg-surged-491%

Bought in on the back finalisation of funding news due in the next week or two.

Up today over 15% ?