RE:QuestionTaal, a great question.
A couple of possibilities:
1. Total got a bad case of FOMO.
2. Our 2 wells are not as "successful" as we believe they are.
3. Our guys are asking too much ie they've overpriced the deal.
4. If a unitization is the path forward; that takes a lot of time for agmts to be ironed out as well as to aquire the necessary data from offset wells (Bluefin-1, hatchetfish, Haimara-2 etc) in order to establish and agree on unit boundaries.
I'm sure there are others.