The tiny Irish stock on the brink of landing 'the first' post-sanction oil deal in Iraq. Ref 'Fleet Street Letter' 12-04-04..

Charts are no use if you are holding for the big news to break, good news up bad news down, keep it simple.

aldwickk: I agree with your sentiment...in the case of PET charting is meaningless at this stage.

Tokyo: Do you really want to get into charting? There are lots of textbooks on the subject which I am sure has made lots of people rich.

I have noticed that over the last few days the total sales/buys have been very close to each other. Either the MM cant get the stock or they do not want to hold it over night. Anyone got any ideas or an alternative reason. Graeme.

Graeme: Re matching buying and selling on recent PET stock...I would hazard a guess that the MM are neither short or long...just balancing book. This is a binary bet to them it either goes up or down depending on the news out of the Middle East. Suggest you scroll back through this BB for an earlier excellent comment on how MM's work.

if its an over night thing the MM's must be breathing heavy every close/opening thye go through, come to think of it so am I.

A point to add to johngtudor's comments. The post by gra1969 (703) shows the oscillations in price over the last week. Up goes the price with buys; in come the sellers and down goes the price, and so on. Generally, keep a decent margin between buy and sell; where the MM makes his money. But if, say, you want to bring sellers in, just narrow the spread for a while. The MM is not having to hold stock. What an ideal share: just let the price move with the flow and rake in the margin!

Eric (topped up this morning art 115.7; in profit within 2 minutes; could have bought cheaper an hour later)

What a boring day!!,can i claim "Twat of the week" award ?.
Last week i sold some PET to buy FOGL on launch day PET @ 82p and FOGL @60p,and last night i sold FOGL @ 56p and bought PET back @ 1.12.!!!!!!!!!!

regards,
Dexter

He he thats quite funny. Sorry, but it is!

dexter01: I do hope, on behalf of all the BB followers of PET that your LUCK does not continue in the same vein. With luck and a fair wind you might soon recover your loss. But please tell us if you plan to sell your PET holding...that is something we need to know!! Have a great evening. John

dexter01 - Sorry to hear that mate I remember you saying last week you had sold some, Really sorry because you and I kept this thread going for quite a while by ourselves, you sold @82p, not bad considering you originally bought @ 29p, 300+% is not bad on an investment lets hope you get the same 300+% on this lot you bought @ 112pence.

Wishing you the best of luck pal

Tokyo Nick

Im sure that you will recoup your losses and significantly increase your worth in the next few weeks. It's not really twat of the week, cos we have all done stoopid things havent we, so there are loads of em! Best of luck...JJ

Dexter. You took a chance but we've all done it. Only hope your bad luck is over. I have placed stops on Pet incase things go belly up but Comdirect only allowing tranches of 2500 a time so not only will we take a hiding on bad news, the brokers will take their bit as well. z

One of the biggest reasons for being positive as to the outcome in my mind is that the consultants asked for their fees to be paid in shares. Who (particularly consultants) would ask for payment of your hard earned cash in shares if there was any risk that this would disappear into the ether?
For these shares to be in a company like PET is incredible to my mind. Its hardly your "steady as she goes" stock is it? On a risk scale of 1 - 10 this must be at least 11.Most of us will probably suffer from nightmares this weekend (except the consultants)!
I have asked myself time and time again over the last few months whether I am going potty having invested into PET when the SP is see-sawing like the South Atlantic in a full gale but the fact that the consultants are in on this is like "oil on troubled waters"!
Wishing all PET holders the best.

SALKELDJP/Tokyo: I have seen many references to the Consultants being paid in shares of the company. I may have missed it, so apologies in advance if I have, but can someone please indicate the actual source for this information? Tks John

Petrel Resources PLC
27 September 2004

Petrel Resources announces that it has issued and allotted 400,000 new ordinary
shares to a consultant to the Company in lieu of fees. Application has been made
for the shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and it is expected that
admission will take place and dealings will commence on 30 September 2004.




This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

The fact that the consultantsd didn't sell out when the SP reached 155 pence, was a great sign for me, as they would have a better idea than must as to the potential that these tenders would have on the SP of PET, I've had a target price of 4 pounds from the beginning, lets hope its' time is near.

tokyo

Some more positive news

http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=17384

"We are making miracles here," Ghadhban said. "Despite all the sabotage of our oil installations our competent technicians have been able to raise our production capacity back to 2.8 million b/d," he added.

In the period since the war ended and Iraq resumed crude oil exports, the country has earned $17 billion in revenues, he said.

Later, the minister told Dow Jones Newswires that two upstream contracts to develop the Khormala Dome in northern Iraq near Kirkuk and Hemrin near Baghdad were going to be finalized soon.

"There are two delegations in Jordan now in discussions with international oil companies to finalize the Khormala and Hemrin contracts," Ghadhban said.


Meanwhile, a third upstream contract for Subba and Luhais fields in southern Iraq has been delayed as the technical and economic aspects of the deals aren't yet ready, he added.

Last year Ghadhban said the ministry would start development of the fields this year. Production from all the fields would reach 300,000-350,000 b/d within two years from the start of development.

Oil ministry officials have estimated investment on the fields around $500 million to $600 million.

Tiny Irish oil independent Petrel Resources (PET.LN) is one of the companies bidding for the contracts.

The minister declined to name the other companies.

Hi Tokyo, do you have any idea who we are up against with regards to the above. How much chance do you think we have , is it 50 / 50 or better.
Thanks Graeme.

Today is gonna be a long one fellow PET's! More sideways low volume trading with the MM's shaking that tree again.

i see from previous poster that 2 contrcts are being finalised so maybe only pet will win 1 but hopefully 2.