Welcome to the new thread for Max Petroleum. Here's a link to the MXP web site and a presentation that everyone should read.

http://www.maxpetroleum.com/companypresentations.asp

Market reaction was muted at best - not hard to see why when you tot up how many shares could be issued if all the birds come home to roost. Ordinary shareholders get diluted at a rate of around 3:1. Not nice. Should make for an entertaining EGM.

WeLL pond life a great result for you and good old patience, happy to say i increased my holding 5 fold on the last news at 7p.
More than 16m traded and a 36,6000 bought after hours at 13p, a very nice
57% for now.
cyril

Is there more to come? sold mine at 11.8p thought too good to leave.

i think you're right ..... everything is now looking horribly frothy with seemingly indiscriminate heavy buying of anything that moves ...... tomorrow may well be sharply south

Yep - all looks overbought short term. MXP coming back a bit today. But look at the volume!

coming back + volume indicates peeps bailing out with a profit before it all disappears

Mxp seem's to be making another rally on no news.

EGM in London on Tuesday. I will be going. Anyone else attending?
This could be the spark for a continued rally in the sp next week. Let's hope for some good news.

EGM could also be the catalyst for selling on the news

Somehow I doubt it this time cynic. I reckon that the MXP management - prodded somewhat sharply by McBank, are finally getting their ducks in a row. I am hoping for some serious progress here by the end of the year.

Anybody explain the recent rise? there dosen't seem to be any news and seems to be the only oil comp, rising. I like a twit baled out when it stalled for a day at 20p
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

No news, but something must be moving behind the scenes to account for all this volume. Two possible scenarios:

1. They are close to syndicating the rest of the convertible stock.
2. There is talk that KazMunai Gas has $4 billion to invest in Gas and Oil plays in Kazahkstan and beyond. Either Max could be in play, or they might want to do a deal on the Astrakansky (spelling) licence. Either way it will be good news for us.

Happy to buy in on this news,

4 August 2009




Max Petroleum, an oil and gas exploration and production company focused on Kazakhstan, announces today that it has executed a two-year drilling contract (the 'Contract') with Sun Drilling LLP, who have operated in Kazakhstan since 2001. The Contract provides the Company with a Z-J30 rig capable of drilling to 3,500 meters. The drilling rig is presently located in Western Kazakhstan. Sun Drilling LLP is currently mobilising the rig to the Zhana Makat Field, where it will drill two development wells and then move on to begin drilling the Company's shallow and intermediate exploration prospects on Blocks A&E.
cyril

Taken from another board,genuine poster,also a similar report from another poster,different board confirming it? Seems we could get an RNS tomorrow
via one source or next week at latest? If so we could see some real action,
one way or the other,like to think the positive myself?

I have had an interesting talk with Peter Moss (Vice President Investor Relations and Business Development MXP). To the point...we have nothing to worry about. The RNS update is taking so long because there is so much in there! It was a long chat, but gathered the following from our discussion:

1) Development wells in Zhana Makat are part of the lisence agreement. Rig is in place.
2) Drilling two wells in October
3) In terms of the strategic plan of which we were advised of in March - they are on track
4) Fully funded
5) From seismics on Blocks A+E - out of 30 - 10 wells remain in their portfolio for drilling
6) High success rate
7) Proceeding with discussions for farm-outs - interested parties
8) MXP will be presenting at various investor summits over the coming months - they must have something to shout about!

cyril

Keep your fingers crossed Cyril. What did you think of Peter? He has a mixed rating in some quarters and in line with his profession is regarded as something of a truth bender. He is bound to tell you that everything in the garden is rosy. I take him at face value, and having met the man he seems Ok and is certainly 100% Max Petroleum.

Copied from iii CNOOC appear to be interested in Astrakhanskiy

08-Oct-09
14:04
CNOOC holds talks with Dragon Oil and Max
Petroleum over Caspian acquisition; adviser
proposals welcome, source says
Story China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), the
listed Chinese oil major, has held early-stage discussions
with Max Petroleum and Dragon Oil to acquire a Caspian
oil and gas asset, according to a CNOOC company
source.
CNOOC is striving to acquire an upstream offshore oil
and gas asset in the Caspian region with roughly 100
million barrels of reserves, the source said. Dragon Oil,
the Turkmenistan-focused, dual-listed oil and gas
producer, and Max Petroleum, the AIM-listed oil and gas
company, both have assets in the area.
CNOOC does not have a local financial adviser in place
and would be welcome to approaches, the source said.
"We have the funds available," said the source. "And we
would be happy with a minority stake of 20% to 25%."
The source explained that CNOOC has been in talks with
both the Kazakstani government and domestic energy
giant KazMunayGas in the past.
This news service reported this week that Max Petroleum
plans to spin off Astrakhanskiy LLP, an upstream oil and
gas field in Kazakhstan, for USD 50m to USD 100m and
has had interest from six companies, including GDF Suez
and KazmunayGas.
The source said that CNOOC is keen to push ahead with
an acquisition in the Caspian after some of its domestic
competitors continued to make progress in the region.
Dragon Oil and Max Petroleum did not comment by the
time of publication.

By Rob Hartley
Source dealReporter
cyril

No idea if it is relevant to this but CSH (Caspian Holdings) rose 100% on Friday.

I will be going to the AGM tomorrow and I plan to ask about the CNOOC reports. I'll probably get a zero response, but it's worth asking.

Please let us know how you get on..

AGM was a much more relaxed affair than the EGM earlier this year. I had the distinct impression that the directors were quietly confident about the future of the company.
Rob Hartley's news report was dismissed as nonsense by Mike Young, but you would expect this reaction and something makes me think that there may indeed be some truth in it. Farm-out discussions are indeed underway although management was trying to manage expectations by saying that any deals were some way off.
The drill starts to turn in a couple of weeks once Kazakh formalities have been completed. The drilling base will serve for the first three new shallow prospects after the two development wells have been drilled on ZM. If successful, the first three prospects could eventually prove up circa 100 million barrels of oil. As these prospects have all been evaluated as a result of the 3D seismic that has cost the company so dear, I am hoping that we will encounter a high degree of success.
Shallow prospects don't take too long to drill, so we should be a lot clearer by Christmas.