Blue skies, shining on me.
Nothing but Blue Skies...........

The diary shows a trading statement was due for release today.Have I missed something? I've only seen drilling reports.Will we have more good news tomorrow?

sandrew64,

I was only expecting a rilling report, haven't seen a mention of a trading statement.

The drilling is where the excitment is, with a high oil price I would expect any trading statement to be positive personally.

Looks like it's up today so I will still hold.

;-)

Looks like it's up today so I will still hold.

;-)

New highs today. Looks like the rocketing Brent Crude is pushing the price up.

Share Whisper: HARDMAN RESOURCES rose yesterday as speculators bet on more good news from its offshore Mauritanian sites in West Africa)

That'll be why!

Anyone know a reason for the large sells today? Not doing the sp any favours.

Look to buy, I am around 90p or less!

The volumes are low, maybe MM antics. me thinks

Morning all.

SWW,

well not a good one, that's for sure!

Price down 3p already, does anyone wknow if there's any bad news out there, or is this just being walked down on no news?

Interestingly, most oil related stocks are having down days, even the FOGL float hasn't soared like many of us thought.

Rumour was yesterday that dorade was dry.

That was expected, but when PRE had a dry one at High Island A68 the price dropped by 5% then came back to previous levels.

Doarde was expected to be dry, and was identified as high risk before the drilling started so why the market should be surprised if that is so defeats me.

Never mind, 16 more drills to go and this is the only one so far.

Corner turned here in my opinion.

SWW,

Hope so!

It would probably have been better to drill one of the better prospects first, before the high risk one, but I guess their plan doesn't take into account short temr fluctuations on the LSE or ASX!

Andy - I was concered when I saw the drilling schedule as I thought it may dip the prices at the wrong end of the campaign, but then brigther and better minds worked on this before I ever saw it.

I suppose we must accept the judgement to do the risky one first as being the better deal.

'Course if you are holding till either the end of the campaign, or the evalutiuon period or the production phase, little things like this don't really matter.

I must admit to profit sweeping when it hit 97p, and buying back in on the cheap this morning, but I really do not anticipate doing that too often with this stock.

Should have said what appears on the cheap this morning!

;-)

Do you know on my watch list, these and SEY are the only blues today!

Amazing.

I'm doing a bit better, 6 blues, 2 reds, and a few greens!

PMO stock aqisition can only be good news for SEY

Premier Oil PLC
15 October 2004


SCHEDULE 11 15th October, 2004



NOTIFICATION OF INTERESTS OF DIRECTORS AND CONNECTED PERSONS


1. Name of company : PREMIER OIL PLC


2. Name of director : MR J A VAN DER WELLE


3. Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial
interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that
person's spouse or children under the age of 18 or in respect of a
non-beneficial interest : 2. ABOVE


4. Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
number of shares held by each of them (if notified) : 2. ABOVE


5. Please state whether notification relates to a person(s) connected with
the director named in 2 above and identify the connected person(s) : N/A


6. Please state the nature of the transaction. For PEP transactions please
indicate whether general/single co or PEP and if discresionary/non discretionary
: EXERCISE OF SAYE SHARE OPTIONS


7. No. of shares/amount of stock aquired : 277,272

As indicated last week so no surprise here.

This was expected

Hardman Resources Limited
18 October 2004




STOCK EXCHANGE / MEDIA RELEASE

RELEASE DATE: 18 October 2004

CONTACT: Ted Ellyard (08 9321 6881)

RE: WIRELINE LOG RESULTS FOR
DORADE-1, MAURITANIA

PAGES: 2

Hardman Resources Ltd ('Hardman') provides the following report on the
evaluation of the wireline data:

Dorade-1 Exploration Well - PSC 2

Progress and Current Status:
Since the last report (5 October 2004) Dorade-1 has been drilled to TD and
wireline logs have been run. Evaluation of the wireline data indicates that
Dorade-1 has not encountered any hydrocarbons. Some good quality Late Miocene
sands have been intersected but were water bearing. The well is currently being
plugged and abandoned.

Upon completing the plugging and abandonment programme the Stena Tay rig will
move to the Capitaine-1 exploration well in PSC B.

Note: There are no plans to drill-stem test any exploration well in the current
drilling campaign.

Well Location:
The Dorade-1 prospect is located approximately 165 kilometres southwest of
Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, and 85 kilometres southwest of the
Chinguetti Field. Water depth is 1,670 metres, and the total depth of the well
was 2,600 metres.

Well Details:
The Dorade-1 exploration well was drilled to test a Late Miocene channel sand
fairway. The main target was intersected at approximately 2,400 metres depth.

Other information:

All reported depths are referenced to the rig rotary table (except water depth).

Times and dates refer to GMT (Mauritania time), 8 hours behind Western Standard
Time, Perth.

A map showing the location of the wells will be available on the Hardman website
(
www.hdr.com.au
) and will be updated during the course of the 2004/2005 drilling
programme.

Page 2

The 2004/05 drilling programme will include wells in three production sharing
contract areas (PSC's). Joint venture interests in those areas are:

Company PSC A PSC B PSC 2
Woodside group companies (operator) 53.846% 53.846% 48%
Hardman group companies 24.3% 21.6% 28.8%
BG group companies 13.084% 11.63%
Premier group companies 9.231%
Fusion Mauritania A Ltd 4.615%
ROC Oil group companies 4.155% 3.693% 3.2%
Energy Africa 20%



TED ELLYARD
MANAGING DIRECTOR

Note: In accordance with Australian Stock Exchange Limited listing requirements,
the geological information supplied in this report has been based on information
provided by geologists who have had in excess of five years experience in their
field of activity.