Post by
Gtboy on Aug 31, 2023 5:54pm
AGM Attendance Update
Hi All
I attended the meeting. To start off the entire mood was very positive and anticipatory. Joe (Jtdd), Davenand and I asked a ton of questions and Suresh answered every one of them but in summary all the answers came down back to the fact that we are still awatiing the lab test results of the Santonian and there is much anticipation of good news:
1. Suresh was very clear that CGX cannot and will not act prematurely to get the market excited without confirmed lab results.
2. The question about the news in the media about CGX selling off assets or issuing more shares to fund othey wells, Suresh was clear that he did not say such and we need to be careful how we act on news via various meia outlets such as Oilnow etc as they do not represent corretly what the company has said. He further stated that any release from the company will be done via its official news release and only that we shoud rely on.
3. In terms of the valuation of the 4% issued to Fonterra for the overrun on costs on Wei1, he was adamant that an independent committee determined that and no board member or Fonterra had any play in that valuation. I asked whether Fonterra couldnt wait one more month for the results to get paid based on that revised valuation, he said that their stockholders wouldnt allow that.
4. There is interest in the find from other investors but management wants to ensure maximization of shareholder value so they so not want to entertain any until full results of Wei 1 is out.
5. Lessons were learned from Kawa and not repeated on WEi1 but the two wells provide enough evidence of the good potential of the block.
6. If the final results of WEI1 shows light crude in the santonian it will be the single largest find amongst minors.
There were lots more questions and answers of which Joe or Dave can add here. The only dissapointment for me was that the meeting was not on Zoom as well for other shareholders to access the meeting and ask questions of their own.
GT
Comment by
SheDrills on Aug 31, 2023 6:00pm
"If the final results of WEI1 shows light crude in the santonian it will be the single largest find amongst minors." is this a direct quote and does he mean worldwide or in the Guyana basin? Because minors haven't found commercial hydrocarbons in the Guyana basin as yet so that statement means nothing.
Comment by
Schreibzey on Aug 31, 2023 6:15pm
Thank you. Regarding #3 above, he told me in an email himself that it was evaluated by an independent team.....unfortunately independent in name only. Dennis mills leads the specialty committee and he is hardly independent. I couldn't resist. Did you notice any audio visual equipment that they may release transcript at a later time?
Comment by
SheDrills on Aug 31, 2023 6:44pm
EXACTLY...surrounded by people hand picked by Frontera including Durkee "VP of Development"
Comment by
Schreibzey on Aug 31, 2023 6:51pm
Further to #3, the shareholders that wouldn't allow it were gramercy and catalyst. I'll bet that independent committee Faught by hard for the CGX shareholders. The valuation hitting the street might have cost more than $16.5m. Suresh, you're a puppet!
Comment by
chulo123 on Aug 31, 2023 7:11pm
This particular situation reminds me of cartoons. All of us a small shareholders fighting with big ones. I would prefer to wait till good results, light crude in santonian, and forget these guys forever... Not anymore. I will go with my money very far from suresh and his gang.
Comment by
SheDrills on Aug 31, 2023 8:36pm
Thanks! Did anyone happen to press them on results timing? I would think they know if this is coming w/in a few weeks.
Comment by
jtdd on Aug 31, 2023 11:08pm
They wouldn't elaborate but I got the impression it's going to be relatively soon.