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Presentation from Thursday 6th July 06 can be seen on oilbarrel !


Monterey appraisal well suspended pending Wintershall evaluation. 1/12/06
BLR and Kappa in dispute.
BLR to meet with Kappa within next two weeks 1/12/06

sorry, but this company and its product (heavy oil) have always been very unsexy .... Cassandra told you several times before

With thanks to

gizmot1000 - 21 Mar'07 - 16:35 - 5831 of 5831


heres a good find i feel http://offshore247.com/news/article.asp?Id=7213&catname=Field/development

Monterey gas to Windermere

Friday, March 9, 2007

Development of the UK Monterey gas discovery in the Southern North Sea is looking increasingly likely as a tieback to the Windermere platform with output exported to The Netherlands.

Operator Wintershall Noordzee is considering the Windermere tieback option after making the discovery last year and a development plan is likely to be put to field partners this summer.

Partner Black Rock Oil and Gas has said that is the development route being examined by Wintershall after drilling the discovery which spans UK blocks 49/8c and 49/9d discovery last year.

Monterey is about 15 km (9.3 miles) west of the Windermere gas platform and south of the Schooner and Ketch gas fields, in a water depth of 35 M (114 ft).

Monterey is estimated to contain around 165 Bcf of gas although that figure has not been verified by independent analysis.

The Monterey field, originally drilled in 1989, was estimated by Carrizo (based on analysis then provided by the field operator, Wintershall Noordzee) to contain 165 billion cubic feet of gas reserves, although no formal resource or reserve has yet been prepared under any of the accepted standards and this figure has not been independently verified by the company, Black Rock, which has a 15% stake in part-blocks 49/8c and 49/9d, declared today.

The field operator is currently undertaking detailed technical evaluation of the well results and simulation of various development options to put to the Joint Venture Partners during the summer of 2007. Amongst the options being considered is to drill one or more horizontal producers. Typically, such wells will have horizontal sections of 500m (1,640 ft) or more in order to obtain commercial rates and the well may also require hydraulic fracturing. If developed, the field operator is considering piping the gas to the nearby Windermere and Markham Fields and from there to the Netherlands, the companys chairman Tony Baldry informed shareholders.

Black Rock Oil & Gas PLC
23 March 2007


For immediate release 23 March 2007



Black Rock Oil & Gas plc (the 'Company')
Director's Dealings

The Company has been notified today that Peter Kitson, Finance Director has
today purchased 1,528,510 ordinary shares of 0.5p each in the Company (the
'Shares') at 0.65p each. This number of shares represents Mr Kitson's total
holding, or 0.15% of the Company's total issued share capital.


ENDS

If anyone knows anything about the financial prospects of the company, surely it must be the Finance Director?

Mind you, history proves that the logic in that particular arguement is not always a good indicator!!

Still only a very small holding for a director, could be tokenism??

Maybe so, however someone else has dipped in with a 4,000,000 Buy this morning, precipitating a bit of activity :)

Topped up with 500000 this morning with the bid at 0.6p and the offer at 0.7p and set a fill or kill at 0.65p and to my amazement i bought at 0.61p which is showing as a sell as are most trades today.Could someone explain why they let me have them at this price because i think even T.D.Waterhouse are confused.

perhaps because general consensus is right that company has little or no future so delighted to get some shares off their books! ...... more realistically, because there was a seller happy to accept your offering

Typical Black Crock ! bid falling back, it's sooooo predictable !

Buyers coming back in after todays news. problem with some of you Guys is that you want results tomorrow and arenot prepared to wait !

You took the words right out of my mouth moneyman,next 2 months will hopefully bring about a rerating of this stock.

errr! we have been waiting a long and.... from a much higher price.. we have right to be impatient!

Pisces, I really can't see this stock being rerated in the next two months, nor three or four. Confidence is a fine thing and I'd be happy to hear why your expecting a rerating when I think most of us would just like to test the pennys resistance.

why should anyone keep waiting? ..... confess i have been saying this about this stock for many a long month ..... but to repeat in simple English ... imo (of course!) this company is crap along with CHP, SEO, VOG and a few others

So why post here if you have no interest ?

Cos you can post anywhere you like, that's what BBs are for. A contrary opinion adds balance, rather than the blinkered view usually adopted by most holders of a stock (me included).

pth

"this company is crap"

sorry that's not a contrary view !

It's amusing that BLR keep saying that they only take on safe acreage! How many dry holes now,how much cash left and how many more shares will have to be issued to keep them going?

Oil Barrel article...

01.05.2007
CDS Secures Farm-In Support For Paraguayan Exploration Project
When it comes to destinations for E&P investment, Paraguay is a little off the beaten track. Those companies that have ventured into the country have struggled to make head way, prompting AIM-quoted Chaco Resources to diversify into investor-friendly Colombia. Fellow AIM firm CDS Oil & Gas has continued to plug away in Paraguay but slow progress, financing issues and disappointing well results have contributed to an 80 per cent decrease in the companys market cap since its 2005 IPO.

Things may, however, be about to pick up. The company, which has rights to three blocks covering almost 30,000 sq km in the north-west of the country, has agreed option terms with another AIM explorer, Black Rock Oil & Gas, for a possible farm-in to the Boqueron Concession. John Bentley, chairman of CDS, said Black Rocks participation confirmed our confidence in the potential for these properties.

Under the terms of the option, Black Rock, which is also active in Colombia, has 100 days to decide whether to acquire a 20 per cent interest the subsurface rocks down to the Carboniferous in return for a cash sum and paying 40 per cent of the costs of a 2D seismic shoot over the acreage. If Black Rock fails to exercise the option it will pay a break fee of US$50,000. The total cash cost to Black Rock is expected to be US$1.35 million.

The Boqueron Concession is one of three blocks held by CDS in the Chaco Basin of northwest Paraguay, close to the border with gas-rich Bolivia. Its a region that has seen sporadic but sparse bursts of exploration activity - and very limited industry interest in the past three decades - with 26 wells drilled between 1947 and 1996, of which 22 had hydrocarbons shows. Only one of these wells (the 1993 drilled Independencia-1) was production tested. CDS re-entered and re-tested the well in March 2004, when it flowed at a rate of 960,000 cubic feet of gas per day. Although sub-commercial, the flow rate did indicate the presence of an active hydrocarbon system in the region.

These 26 wells were never followed up for a variety of reasons: oil and gas prices were too low at the time to support development; there was limited access to the Paraguayan Chaco Basin; poor production technology had led to unreliable results. As a result, the country has been largely overlooked by the industry. CDS hopes to change that.

Boqueron, reckoned to be the most prospective of the companys blocks, is home to the Emilia oil prospect, which an independent consultant reckons could hold 27.2 million barrels of oil, of which 6.4 million could be recoverable. This is a Carboniferous oil target at a depth of 800 metres. The consultant, Collarini of Texas, reckons the reservoir is potentially more productive than originally thought. There are several Emilia analogs on the acreage.

Following a detailed review by independent technical consultants, we consider that there is a high chance of commercial hydrocarbons occurring in the Emilia structure, said John Cubitt, Black Rocks managing director.

The exploration period on the concession runs until November 2009, by which time CDS must shoot at least 250 km of seismic at a minimum cost of US$750,000 and spend at least US$1.7 million drilling three exploration wells. CDS is currently reprocessing 930 km of existing data and working on the results of an aeromagnetic survey that was conducted in November 2006. Results are due shortly and investors will be hoping for good news.

CDS has certainly had its fair share of legal and financial wrangles over the past two years. It came to market shortly after the Regal Petroleum debacle, which created problems for its IPO. It has struggled with financing to advance its exploration plans, a situation exacerbated by difficulties accessing equipment in a tight market for work in a remote location. In April 2007 the company completed a 1.8 million placing, bringing to an end a tortuous fundraising launched back in 2006 that saw one placee, US firm Calim Private Equity, fail to deliver funds it had committed to subscribe.

In January 2007 the company settled a long-running dispute with drilling company Nabors related to the drilling of an over-budget well on its Gabino Mendoza Block in late 2005. CDS agreed to pay Nabors a settlement of US$270,000 and a US$130,000 contribution to legal costs. That well, CDS-GM-05-5001, was drilled to a depth of 1,635 metres. Liquid hydrocarbons were found in several zones but reservoir quality was poor and the oil was unable to flow unassisted.

Although the oil potential failed to materialize, CDS believes the well results point to a possible deep gas target and it plans to deepen the well to 3,240 m. The original Mendoza 1-R well, drilled by Pure Oil back in 1959 some 200 metres to the north-west, flowed gas at a rate of 2.6 million cf/d during a 48 minute drill stem test from a gas zone at a depth of 2,600m.

The companys then CEO, James Wade, said the well results were disappointing but did improve their understanding of the regional geology. Whilst it is always difficult to extrapolate from a shallow to a deeper horizon, the results do provide encouragement for the prospectivity of gas at depth.

There is certainly potential in Paraguay, with wells consistently finding hydrocarbons. With Black Rock on board and sharing some of the forward exploration costs, investors will be hoping CDS finally gets to unearth that potential.

Someones very quiet tonight !