http://www.gulfkeystone.com/ The firms exploration programme in Algeria is going well and "the shares look good value", say the Investors Chronicle. Your comments please. goal.

What will happen to the Kurds and to Al-Maliki when Assad falls, which he will and very soon?

Apparently he'll run out of dosh around next April or even sooner but i read tonite in the Telegraph that rebels are close to capturing the main power station that provides power to Damascus


'Indeed the conflict in Syria has made the resolution of Iraq’s internal disputes even more unlikely in the near future. The level of trust between the various parties was already at a minimum; and the conflict in Syria has only hardened positions. The Maliki government is responding to worries about Syria by towing a harder line. Meanwhile, most Sunni and Kurdish leaders feel that their hand will be strengthened by the outcome of the conflict in Syria. They prefer to await that outcome before returning to the negotiating table with Baghdad – or more ominously, the battlefield.'

Read more at Middle East Voices: http://middleeastvoices.voanews.com/2012/11/insight-iraqs-tensions-heightened-by-syria-conflict-96791/#ixzz2EyQvfAOA
Read more at Middle East Voices: http://middleeastvoices.voanews.com/2012/11/insight-iraqs-tensions-heightened-by-syria-conflict-96791/#ixzz2EyQvfAOA

http://gkpinvestor.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=analysis&action=display&thread=1720

Thanks to Bob5....


The Judge asked Todd "Who did Rex propose would issue warrants or Convertible Notes?" and Todd replied "From GKP. I can't comprehend why that should be. It's not appropriate"

Judge: "How were matters left...you'd been saying that funding was required by 6 December. Rex Wempen said he needed 6-8 months to come up with the funds to participate, you said you could do until the end of January, was that intended to be that if he could provide funds by the end of January he could participate?

Todd Kozel confirmed that was correct.

Judge: "And then?"

Todd Kozel: "He couldn't pay, he couldn't meet the 6th, he couldn't meet the end of January, then he asked for 6-8 months"

Judge: "Rex suggested a buy-out"

Todd Kozel: "What could I buy? There wasn't anything. Rex went away to think about what to do"

and then later to the Judge:

Todd Kozel: "The board would not accept a 6-8 month carry. We are a public company. It's preposterous. We can't buy out what Excalibur doesn't have"

Photo progress of the pipelines, it's all happening.

http://metrography.photoshelter.com/gallery/Taq-Taq-Khurmala-Oil-and-Erbil-Dohuk-Gas-Pipelines-KAR-Group/G0000AI1H8z3Ow24/C0000PR4E5Fus5Uo

Stock on Loan for GKP nearing 60 million shares.

Its being shorted to hell at the moment....... LOL. That could be one massive massive upside swing when the court case ends late Feb.



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looks to be an awful lot of very brave people out there, if the picture really is as simple as appears
from what i read here, though it is assuredly very partisan, EXC look to have made total asses of themselves, as do the muppets who backed them with lots of dosh on a no win, no pay basis
i have said EXC guys were a bunch of carpetbaggers several times, and i see no reason at all to change that view

Turkey - Kurd O&G deal near.........

http://www.rudaw.net/english/science/columnists/5550.html

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Just came across this post,a good summing up.

http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail/?display=discussion&code=cotn%3AGKP.L&it=le&action=detail&id=10266345

Gazprom stays put in Kurdistan.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100320790/UPDATE_2Gazprom_Neft_defies_Baghdad039s_Kurdistan_warnings_analysts

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MrP - we are all allowed to change our minds, but is my memory not correct that not very long ago you were ridiculing GKP and this region in general? ..... inter alia, were you not saying that everyone but everyone, inc Gazprom was pulling out? ..... at that time, were you not telling us all that FI was absolutely the only place to be and that Kurdistan stocks were just for idiots? .....if i am indeed correct, is it not strange that you do not open your preamble with an admittance that you might have got it wrong?

Forward looking statements.......

Anything said now is out of date in 1 minute from now.


Thats it - because you woke up today alive and well, does not mean you will tomorrow - you can say what you want but you do not know and things change all the time, life is fluid.

my point was that you were previously so (preposterously) biased, yet having changed horses, you don't have humility to even acknowledge you MIGHT have been wrong

There is no right or wrong, there is only today and what might be tomorrow.

Markets look forward, not back. Things change all the time and tomorrow expectation can change many times within a day.

Fluidity is the key.

such arrogance, but then as can only be expected from you i'm afraid
you were wrong wrong wrong and wrong 100 times over, so have the grace to admit it

FAT CHANCE!

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Quite right, I can imagine pro on a spit roast, turning slowly whilst being drizzled with hot fat plus all the christmas trimmings.,.

Come on GKP - back to 450p by late Feb 2013.

Lovely jubbly

TK finished in court,JG operations director now in box.


John Gerstenlauer said that Shaikan was "a rank wildcat in every sense of the word".

When asked "where on the spectrum from 1 to 10 would it be?" he replied...

..."about a 9.5"

So much for Excalibur's nonsense about a "home run" lol

And here's a good Q&A from close of play today:

GKP barrister: "what would have happened to GKP if Shaikan-1 had been a dry hole?"

John Gerstenlauer: "a price crash to a low level. The price would have plunged from the Placing level. The future of GKP would have been in serious jeopardy. We took that risk"

The SP is being shorted at present,off the back of the converable bonds which have been lent out.A no lose position,as they get their 6.5% whatever.The hedgers take the risk and if it flies as expected,sometime in the new yearthe they'll also profit. So until shorters have finished or such news (MOL on AB or OIP figures from SH)then the SP will flounder?
aimho

Talisman email E2A/1/527

GKP barrister: "Ian Franconi of Talisman Energy to John Gerstenlauer: 'we cannot proceed with a farm-in at Shaikan based on G&G data. There is a very real possibility that there is no structural closure on the Block".

then to 528, a PowerPoint presentation of their concerns: Shaikan as a small 4-way closure if any.

The Judge then asked a question.

John Gerstenlauer: "we look, my Lord, for a sealing structure, an analogue is an upside down elongated bowl. They looked for a 4-way closure with oil trapped all the way round. It was mountainous to the West. It indicated *no closure*. you have to go higher and higher up the dome, and you end up with a small or relatively small volume of oil".

Judge: "How do you decide closure?"

John: "Seismic. You look for bending of a non-permeable layer at the edge"

GKP barrister: "Hence they say a small resource volume"

John: "Yes, a function of a small closure"

GKP barrister: "They say 'oil has seeped to surface, therefore risk' and finally 'A one-shot wonder, with no running-room follow-up potential"

John: "We did 7 lines of seismic. There was no sign on the seismic of any fault lines and sealing. If you drill one bad result, you can't go elsewhere. If the 1st hole found no oil, the 'shot' is Shaikan-1.