RE:RE:WellI have to agree with RHertig, the release simply said that the cores and other formation info was taken and that the well has reached designed TD. There was no mention of a commercial hydrocarbon system, there are no numbers (which takes extreme analysis of the data) so we have no idea what they did find. It's all speculation at this point.
But to your point therager, you better have a petroleum geologist on payroll prior to drilling any well, otherwise who determines the subsurface tagets of any well trajectory (given this is a vertical well). Credentials like Mr. Anderson's is very beneficial, but not extremely rare, I personally know a couple geologists who have MBA's, and any geologist who works directly with exploitation and development engineers are exposed to petroleum economics.
I like the fact that PR was issued to let us know well #1 complete, but other than that, I struggle to see any other objective information indicating petroleum findings.