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top-sliced earlier this morning at 176 as deemed it prudent given the huge rise and no obvious news

quite right cyners, spudding nextthen 3-4 weeks after up she gushes......hopefully.,.

Socius I would think must be due to sell another block. Very early sale of the first 5m

Quicker they sell , the better for all of us.

What's hot tip site (James Faulkner) have put a possible £4 tag on this.....long way up from present value !.

Was out this morning, pity would have taken some profit like cynic.,.

bought them back at 155.75 being slightly above the previous resistance but now support (i hope) of 150

did same with afr yesterday sold at 132 and bought back at 126......nice profit.,.

Been in and out half a dozen times this week.....apart from PTR...not bad overall...

The wife will be happy RF then.

Somebody elses ?.....possibly...not a bad idea...I'll look around for one this weekend....at the moment single...

LOL marky :))))

Single? Ah!! Those were the days! ;o)

I could maybe start a lonley hearts thread for you RF......wealthy man like you no problem.

I was reliably informed the other day by a couple of PhD students that you now have to ask about someone else's 'partner'. That way you don't get yourself into a tricky situation making assumptions! 'Wife' seems to be in a minority now.

partener (sic) obviously has even further potential connotations to partner then

Marky...what have you started here...?...

Typo, Mr C. Corrected!

According to today's Telegraph the terms "husband" and "wife" could be abolished from English law if homosexual marriage is made legal. The words would be scrapped and replaced by the neutral term "parties to marriage". I had better start practicing for when I introduce my wife er, sorry, party to marriage!

Investors excited by rig launch By Peter Ranscombe
Published on Sunday 19 February 2012 00:00


WEATHER permitting, Xcite Energy’s Rowan Norway rig will be towed out of Dundee tomorrow, taking with it the hopes of its army of small investors.


Aberdeenshire-based Xcite’s shares have been one of the most hotly traded stocks over the past year, and are particularly popular with private shareholders.

The company’s value has almost doubled as attention focused on the potential size of its reserves in the North Sea’s Bentley field. But the company is taking a more cautious approach to its prospects.

The management team that set up Xcite in 2003 with the idea of exploiting the field has never been in any doubt that large amounts of recoverable oil exist in the area.

Two major oil companies failed to make anything of the asset and returned the licence to the UK government, but Xcite’s team was convinced that increased knowledge and technology could develop the prospect’s notoriously heavy oil, and their last test well proved that.

Chief executive Richard Smith says the company is not aiming to maximise the flow from the wells it plans to drill this year. Instead, it will be focused on resolving technical issues about how the water table under the oil behaves, which is key to extracting as much of the reserves as possible in the long term.

That knowledge will allow the company to book proven reserves for the core area of the field, which it hopes will be at least 115 million barrels. It will also help it finalise a field development plan that is eagerly awaited by investors.

Questioned by analysts, Smith said: “It’s important that the market understands that what we are seeking to get out of this well is not necessarily what they are hoping to get out of it.”