RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Active Petroleum System I don't discount that and your assessment of it at all. It does sound quite possible. What I'm noting is that the wording in the NR does not give much clarity and has been used to describe dusters as well as producing wells before.
We can make all sorts of inferences about timeline - positive and negative (e.g., maybe they faced a drilling situation they didn't have gear for and had to wait for resupply). But they're just that at this point, inferences. It's like watching a movie where the script doesn't properly explain the character's actions and we have to fill in their motivations ourselves. Sure, we can write in great ones, but if they want us to be sure of it, they could have written a better script.