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.

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/3182674



Oil trio held hostage in Iraq
By Jessica Murphy
Published: 01/04/2013
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Three north-east oil workers are being held hostage in Iraq after an armed gang stormed their rig and demanded a $1million ransom.
Father-of-three Brock Fettes is among 120 men being held captive after the gang boarded the HKN Energy platform on Friday.
Speaking exclusively to the Press and Journal last night, the 65-year-old Schlumberger engineer said they had been forced to shut down the onshore rig and were being held prisoner.
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Released....hopefully true.

http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/3183115

Roidders

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/1-iraqi-kurdistan-sells-first-165139135.html

Could the above the reason for......


BAGHDAD, April 5 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday he would welcome rapprochement with Turkey, softening months of hostile rhetoric fuelled by Ankara's engagement with Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region. Resource-hungry Turkey has antagonised Baghdad by courting Iraqi Kurds, who are at loggerheads with the central government over how to exploit the country's oil reserves and share the revenues. Ankara and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have been negotiating an energy deal ranging from exploration to export since last year. Officials and industry sources say there have been efforts behind the scenes to reconcile Baghdad and Ankara at the insistence of the United States,

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http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/19042013

http://www.investegate.co.uk/gulf-keystone-petrol--gkp-/rns/director-pdmr-shareholding/201304220700108463C/

RNS Tod Kozel disposes of 10million shares.

Not quite true h! Rumour is that this is a 'smoke & mirrors' transaction which side steps the regulations but may have a beneficial tax angle. We need to know who the third party is. This info should be available in a couple of days.

"Director's Shareholdings

Gulf Keystone was informed on 19 April 2013 by Mr Todd F Kozel ("Mr Kozel"), Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, that on 19 April 2013 he transferred ten million (10,000,000) common shares of USD 0.01 in the Company to a third party, in respect of a repayment in full under a financing arrangement, at a price of £1.6875 per share. Mr Kozel no longer has any interest in the common shares transferred. Mr Kozel has no present intention of disposing of the balance of his common shares."

harry tk now holds a nominal number of shares (255k) but still has a stack of options according to their RNS.

He still holds c£14m worth in options.

harry are his options exercisable at profit?

HARRY RNS dated 26th February seems to throw some light on this matter.

sp down 9%?

sp 154p is this a buying opportunity?

hi hali yet again!
gkp is currently not so much unloved, but lacking any interest for buyers, even though they say (cynical old bugger!) they have oodles and oodles of black stuff ...... i doubt there'll be any positive action until judgement day in the carpetbaggers' action .... memory tells me that that will not be until june, but more than happy to be corrected

Now 147p to buy! Shorters?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/sharewatch/market-report-gulf-keystone-cops-it-as-boss-sells-down-8583749.html

I sold half of holdings sometime back,sorely tempted to buy back sub 150p,the oil's still there.

so did I but used funds else where for now.,.

Not one I'd want to short, have taken a small long Sept 13 future @ 150.57..