RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:WelpSporty, I don't know if you're into geology or not but the resesrch and analysis in the following link, funded by Hess, was done based on almost current seismic data. I'm not an earth scientist so I struggle hard trying to understand it. The research paper gives acknowledgement and thanks to Hess's earth science team. Maybe Dr. Budlong had some input as well.
A couple of things that caught my attention was how the Upper Cretaceous and the seafloor change dip. Sometimes you have to go into deeper water to find the Maastrichtian at a shallower depth. Does that mean that Bluefin is updip from Kawa/Wei?
Also the location of "the Guyana Transformation" seems to be much closer to Kawa/Wei than Exxon's stuff. Those rocks in the tranformation zones are highly deformed and under a tremendous amount of stress. Does this account for the pressure regressions found at Kawa/Wei and not at Exxon's wells?
Anyway, I reckon that Exxon should be penetrating the Maastrititian in a week to 2 weeks. If they promptly come out with an announcement, say in a couple of weeks, that they hit commercial quantities of hydrocarbons while fec/cgx are still waiting on results then how would you interpret that? You don't need to answer. The question is more retorical than anything. I'm just curious as to what a typical reaction might be and how the sp might react. To tell you the truth I don't know. You could make a case that the reaction would be positive and also make a case that the reaction would be negative. Anyway here's the resesrch paper: https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/SP524-2021-117