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

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'The Eirozes-1 well has been drilled to a total depth of 2,252m. The well encountered Albian sandstones as prognosed. However, wireline logging has beencompleted and indicates the well has not encountered any significant hydrocarbons. The well is now being plugged and abandoned.'

Well, with so many sells of some size, the SP has held up well today I reckon.

Can someone tell me is SEY's 5% interest in Guinea Bissau carried or to be paid for?

Carried

been away for afew days see nothink as changed,sick company,

If you think it's so sick TANKER why do you continue to waste your time following it and passing comment?

Same comment can be made for the postings from several posters queen. Sometimes I also wonder why some feel the need to post how bad they think it is at SEY and rarely a mention as to the potentialy good prospects we have in SEY.
I hold SEY and am hopeful of a good result but I know it is risky and don't need to be continually reminded of it!
opto

why does one have to add to hype when so many would do well to take a good dose of reality .... if they did so, they might save themselves a lot of grief and, of course, money .... a mate of mine observed correctly today on this same subject, "If you had the same 1,000 or 10,000 or whatever, would you invest in this same share today?" .... does one need to continue?

Well even at the current price cynic I've doubled my money so please tell me what dose of reality I'm in need of?

if you have doubled your money, then you must have held the shares since mid 2003 and you could/should have taken at least some profit when sp was at 20 a couple of times on the way up but failed to break, and certainly at 32 or thereabouts as it started to tumble, or at least when it hit 20 again and crashed through - no doubt a few other key levels too ...... certainly nothing to boast about now sp is langishing at the current 16 ..... dose of reality = accepting that when a stock starts to stink, it stinks and it is nearly always better to excise the gangrene than to hope that the patented snake oil will cure it ...... and i would still say to you, that it matters little whether or not you have doubled your money or halved it .... the comment at the end of my previous post holds much truth.

And then others just post here because it's a free bb!

If you don't want to read anything I post, use the squelch facility.

Meantime reality is real, optimism is not out of place either.

Oh there is a live web cast this Thursday from Sterling, no doubt coinciding with the results and my feeling is that they are not doing that just to have a bit of fun live on air.

Maybe Kurdistan has made a little movement in their favour?

Click here at 7.50pm Wednesday to listen

thanks and quite so SeaGoon

cynic - I wasn't boasting (although if I managed to double my money on every share I purchased I'd be a very happy individual). Compared with the heady heights of 32p the current SP could be seen to be languishing as you say but compared with the 7.5p I originally paid it still looks pretty good. And why would you assume that I hadn't sold part of my holding somewhere on the journey up to 32p and back again? That smacks of assumption and arrogance.

no ... it smacks of you not telling the whole truth (i.e. did you top slice? .... in which case, your entry price is actually < your initial purchase price) or making it up as you go along

Who the hell are you to accuse me of lying? I know it must be tough to know that people have made money from a share that you don't rate but you'll need to learn to live with it as I suspect it happens to you rather a lot.

did not say lie .... merely observed that it would appear that you were being being somewhat economic with the truth .... and all you have posted since, does nothing to dispel that.

if you can make money from buying and selling worms, i am delighted for you, but it does not mean that i would suggest such an investment made good sense even if every so often, said worm turns up gold ..... for that matter i would not recommmend playing roulette either, unless it pleases you to lose money, even if once in while someone walks away (rare!) with a stash.

buying/selling "pure" would have been a better analogy!

I think you're in the wrong game cynic if you're uncomfortable with the thought of losing money on a shares investment every now and again. But quite why you're still pushing this train of thought is beyond me as the fact remains that I bought my SEY holding in December 2002 and have enjoyed the ride ever since (with the caveat that I'd obviously prefer the current SP to be higher and recent results to have been better).

you are an ass or a jenny ... not sure which! ..... i buy (unfortunately) many shares that lose me money, but even in my advanced years, am slowly learning when to cut losses or take profits ..... it would seem you are happy to be a passive non-trader which you delude yourself is the best way of making money

You would have thought that "in your advanced years" you would have been able to engage in a discussion without the need for name calling. Just how long ago was it that you were in the playground?

have just been admitted to the second childhood playground ..... thought i had posted .... obviously not ..... if you take offense at being called and ass/jenny, i apologise