anyone got any ideas about the block trades that went through today?

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Which is???????????

16.75 (evolution)

16.75p I assume.

Holding it up are they?

Let it fall you fools.

I want more at 15p

1m trade just gone through

Gav,

Several tasty buys have gone through just after the bell!

Three T (protected) trades, one for 2,350,000 and two 1 million trades.

interesting...

Not sure about the 2.35m trade, perhaps a sell that has just been completed? I give up trying to figure out T trades, hurts my head in this heat! And I'm hungry!

gav,

LOL!


This was posted on ADVFN yesterday by the poster "poo bear", who has kindly allowed me to post it here.

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From Harry Wilsons email to me.

"I would also like to clarify exactly what our interest is in PSC B (which includes the Tiof field). Firstly, we receive a "discovery bonus" from Premier of $2m for each new discovery over 50 million barrels declared commercial - there are presently 3 potential field developments where this might apply - Tiof, Tevet & Banda. Secondly, we receive from Premier a "sliding scale royalty payment" on 6% of the gross production taken out of the license (this will be reduced by the government back-in where we also have an interest). By way of example, the sliding scale royalty is $2.75 per barrel when oil price is $28 - 31 per barrel and $4.75 per barrel when oil price is $40 - 43 per barrel. This royalty payment comes to us without any costs apart from tax. So it is clearly in Sterling's interests to see as much drilling by the partners as possible in the license. I hope this is clear."

In addition to PSC Area B, PSC Area A = Fusion group companies 4.615%

Fusion is a wholely owned subsidiary of Sterling Energy

Andy,

Thanks for that. Its similar to an email I got back from SEY in Feb of this year when I was asking them something.

Looking at those late buys, this is a pattern regularly repeated now for a while.

Continued sustained selling, mostly retial throlughout the day, followed by wacking great buys on the bell.

Amvescap PLC coughed to having quite a big interest recently, (228,316,615 = 16.38% )

If they have increased again, then we will know soon enough, if they have I will take that as a sign that we should all have another dip in at these prices.

Tom Bulford in RHPSG has a buy limit of 16 which is as good a guide as any - but what's the odd penny matter looking a year hence, except the fun of playing the game as well as you can.

We've had the curly locks rising up the righthandside of the inverted head & shoulders and today the right epaulette was drawn in. Will we now see the rise spread up the right arm towards tackling the 18.2-18.6p right way up h&s previous highs - or will we create one side of a small SEQ-like chip on the right shoulder with a dip down again tomorrow? Is so, will the SP be deemed to have failed its assult on the 17p resistance this time around, will it retreat further and for how long before the next attempt? Will this be a buying opportunity? Are we nearly there yet, daddy?

Questions, questions - we'll know the answers tomorrow.

sd

SWW, if Amvescap have been buying more, then as I understand it they wouldnt have to report it until they moved above 17%. I think they way that buying or selling in a company only has to be reported is if the holding moves up or down 1 percntage point eg - above 17 or below 16. I could be wrong and if I am could anybody advise the correct procedure.

SD, that sounds awfully technical on a warm night like tonight! Cheers for the heads up on the RHPS, but as you say, whats a penny by 06. I find myself saying the same thing on many occasions, questions questions questions! Was good to see the young Scot thump that Czech at the tennis today! :-)

Roll on tommorow, oil pushing $60 and the Dow took a beating tonight.

This is fun today, and no comment here.

Watch the trades and the sp.

No more than 10k shares can be traded online, loks like we mayy at last be having a moving day.

Lets wait and see.

I refer to you my post 4405 - perfect upward movement through the 17p resistance into new (read old!) territory once over the mionor hump of 17.5p.

Waiting and watching the fun.

Thank you Minister.

And so it came to pass.............

Well, at least I don't try to give the impression to coastal shipping that I'm walking on water! lol, SWW!

Do you know me.

That's exactly what I look like..................

Now, these silly little retail trades won't do much, we need a few biggies just to round off the week.

Well, we got them.

3.5 mil in th last knockings.

Shown as sells, unless delayed trades trades, that is what they were.

What an excellent end to the week! This is on Oilbarrel just now, a review of the presentation during the week.

"Sterling Energy, which kicked off proceedings, is somewhere between the two. It was founded in October 2000, listed on AIM two years later and had what commercial director Paul Griggs described as a transformational year in 2004 on the back of the 40 million hostile takeover of Fusion Oil & Gas and the US$40 million acquisition of Ospreys Gulf of Mexico asset base. In the process the companys market cap has surged from 20 million to 250 million.

The Gulf of Mexico assets are the bread and butter of the business, said Griggs. Production at the shallow water assets has already doubled to 9.4 million cubic feet of gas per day and Sterling has set a target to double that number in 2005. Six exploration and appraisal wells are planned here for 2005.

In the first ten months since we signed the Osprey deal, its paid back one third of the price we paid for it, and its also worth more than we paid for it, said Griggs, pointing to a four-year extension to the fields average life span (now up to 15 years).

This revenue stream is set to become more of a river from the first quarter 2006. This is because of the Chinguetti back-in deal Sterling signed with the Mauritanian government in October 2004. The company raised cash on the UK equity market in order to provide the Mauritanian government with the cash it needs to fund its share of the Chinguetti field development costs. In return Sterling gets a sliding scale share of the production generated from the deepwater field - due onstream in the first quarter of 2006 at a rate of around 75,000 barrels per day - which roughly works out at an 8 per cent economic interest.

Sterling would like to negotiate further deals along these lines as the Mauritanian government seeks funding for future developments in its territorial waters. Future negotiations are likely to be competitive - although Sterling did see off competition to win its existing back-in deal with the government - and while there are no promises, said Griggs, the relationship now being forged between the British company and Nouakchott can only stand it in good stead.

The Chinguetti back-in deal isnt Sterlings only exposure to the Mauritanian offshore. One of the legacy arrangements negotiated by those canny managers at Fusion means that Sterling has also inherited the right to a discovery bonus whenever a discovery in the Mauritanian contract areas is declared commercial (to be paid by field partner Premier Oil) plus a royalty payment from the production attributable to Premier Oil, equivalent to about US$6 per barrel produced. This adds up to a very healthy income stream for Sterling - and with the Tiof, Tevet and Banda discoveries likely to move up the value chain towards a declaration of commerciality in the next year, not to mention a further 5-6 exploration wells to be drilled from July, theres plenty more upside to come.

Gabon looks to be shaping up to be another interesting project. The Iris Iboga Marin-1 exploration well is due to spud here next month. The deepwater well will cost US$10 million to drill but while Sterling holds a 25 per cent working interest it will only pay 2.5 per cent of the costs (thanks to Fusion again).

Sterling also holds 100 per cent of two large licences offshore Madagascar, an area comparable in size to the entire Central North Sea. Expect to see a farm-down before any significant work programme gets underway on this frontier acreage."


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