Star Energy is currently testing the Avington well in Southern England.
This will take about 4 weeks an RNS news feed said, it started on 25/06/06.

I hope it proves positive so we get a good share price rise!
We are 5% holders but i'm not sure how much in pence potential this is worth for the company.

Another good reason to hold on to this share.

Top...you should start your own thread for NOP and get some graphs on and up date the header as this is old at 2006 and out of date and you do put a lot of time in.

I'd base my comment on the RNS.

Hint, 'prognosis', although I may have misunderstood, hence the question.

SP isnt exactly galloping away.

markymar, good idea, might do that ;)

ptholden, give the buyers a chance, most of them are on their way to work. There is no indication of the amount of oil in the field.

The bit you are referring to is a red herring "The top of the Great Oolite was encountered 51 feet low to prognosis and the Great Oolite vertical thickness was 146 feet compared to a prognosis of 240 feet.", because "the well, which was deviated at an inclination of approximately 56 degrees through the Great Oolite, penetrated a gross hydrocarbon bearing interval of 275 feet with a calculated net reservoir of 192 feet", I am no scientist but even I know that 192 feet of oil does not fit in a 146 feet hole!

Drills prepare to move in as firm strikes oil

Published Date:
06 January 2011
By Adam Kula

A firm is to drill underneath a tiny village after striking oil.

Northern Petroleum believes there may be half a million dollars' worth of oil at Forestside in West Sussex, around one mile east of Rowland's Castle.

It estimates up to six million barrels of exploitable crude oil is there for the taking - worth around $90 per barrel at today's prices. That works out at half a billion dollars' worth - equal to around 346m.

Northern has long suspected there was oil lying under the site and will now carry out more tests to discover whether the deposit is as big as it believes.

Derek Musgrove, managing director of Northern, said: 'It's encouraging. The good thing is we've managed to drill it without great impact on the local community.

'I think you'll find most people have not found it inconvenient. These days any industry that makes a profit locally is good.'

But he said the knock-on effect for the area would be small.

'If we put in a trench we're probably going to use local contractors, or if we need nightwatchmen we'll use local contractors,' he said.

Mr Musgrove said the firm would put a Texas-style 'nodding donkey' pump on site shortly.

But he said disruption to the area would be 'about zero'.

He plans to move the oil either by lorry or by an underground pipe connected to Northern's existing Horndean site, where it has been extracting oil for two decades.

Sandy Parker, 59, is a resident of the village, and secretary of the Forestside Social Club.

She said: 'We should have bought shares. It might actually be under my house because the drill curves under the ground.

'I'm just glad for them. They've put a lot of effort into it.'

Northern is also set to begin drilling at its Havant site later this year in search of oil. It wanted to drill under Leigh Park last year, but held off to concentrate on work at the Forestside site.
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Drills-prepare-to-move-in.6681123.jp

A red herring?

You can't be serious.

Obviously like me, you don't have the technical knowledge to make a judgement.

ptholden, well the experts agree with me not you.

Markwells Wood delivers the goods
AIM-listed Northern Petroleum today confirmed an oil find at the Markwells Wood-1 well, drilled in West Sussex in the UK's onshore play.
Upstream staff 06 January 2011 08:38 GMT
The company originally flagged up the find last month, but today said the entire Great Oolite drilled reservoir sequence was oil-bearing.

http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article240768.ece

And clearly nobody else can make a judgement as I stated before, not me, not you, not even NOP!!

"Tests are still being carried out to determine the discoverys reserve potential."

i must say, TA is a ramper par excellence ..... Mr P must be one of his proteges

cynic, ramper? your a muppet then, because you can't tell the difference between ramping and good honest research to put forward a case for a stock :p

Agree with you how exactly?

I do not dispute that oil has been found, my question was simply, have they found less than expected?

You have even highlighted the comment I am referring to in your own post 127.

I've checked in the zoo to see if there are any posters wich technical knowlege, but the main poster seems to be you, ramping away as 'mark jags'

ptholden, what part of 'entire' don't you understand?

Your a muppet too then, because you can't tell the difference between ramping and good honest research to put forward a case for a stock either.

ain't TA just as touchy as his protege too

Yada, yada.

You're a typical BB ramper, with no technical expertise, resorting to insults when the results of your 'research' are questioned. Quite why people feel the need to post on multiple BBs is quite beyond me.

When do we get to see that pretty picture of a lorry?

Which bit of 146 feet compared to a prognosis of 240 feet do YOU not understand?

Indeed Ricardo, legends in their own tea break!

Only when people accuse me of things I am not doing and never do. That's where morals come into play.

Can I be fozzy bear, I always liked fozzy.

Cynic can be Kermit!

ptholden, and your a typical bullsh* talking moron. Typical of the type of abuser that comes on a BB just to attack anything anyone else has to say, probably to give yourself some meaning in your sad little life.

Prove anything you have just claimed. You cant because its just your big fat gob talking!

tut tut tut! ..... such personal abuse is most unbecoming
out of curiosity TA, of the 140 posts on this thread, how many are yours?

Prove what?

Seems a nerve has been touched.

If you don't want into NOP go away and get a life, children!

i follow a number of threads where i do not already hold and from time to time, having duly considered, i get on board - e.g. RKH, AFR and a number of others ..... thus my questions are not wholly specious, but certainly i question more deeply when a thread seems dominated by a single poster - e.g. NOP and you

with that in mind, is it really so unreasonable to ask how many of the (now) 143 posts here are attributable to you?