Malcy - Writing it now, page-23

You are being irrational

You wrote "In other words, FAR waited too long by not responding in 30 days and missed their opportunity and their dispute regarding JOA compliance was not good enough for their backer to proceed to arbitration."

I and others told you that is incorrect then you respond in terms of what they may do next.

Mutually exclusive.

1 they have not stuffed up
2 they still have options and one is to not rock the boat

Think personally I'd prefer they rock the boat and extract maximum from a known succes than risk being given more acreage that could be unsuccessful or at best further away in time and money hungry. But I am open to accepting that's a bad plan if politically wrong. Happy to leave it in FAR execs hands.