quarterly disappoints, page-15

re: quarterly has some positives 618

You are really on the ball mate .. that was a goos synopsis done within minutes of the release of the quarterly! On reflection and with a "cooler head" I can see that your points are very significant, particularly Matamata being first up, the Suriname offshore blocks, and the fact that Tiof looks far more likley and we will have 3 or possibly 4 producing fields (with Suriname) down the track.

Interesting that it also says that "Evaluation of the Tevet and Labeidna discoveries and the oil leg of the Banda gas field as tie-backs to the Ching facilities is continuing, with Tevet being fast-tracked. Key decisions on development of the core part of the tevet reservoir are scheduled for second half of 2006". So there's some progress there as well.

H