It's my opinion that everyone is going to drop everything over the time if it's not in EIA's prospective fault-basin boundaries area as shown on the maps above.
First of all, Canning is an area which is exteme remote. Not suitable for small operators to drill. Not easy to negotiate (for the majors) with the TOs as well. Therefore it is not easy and cheap to drill up there. That is why it hasn't got much drill holes.
NSE has a huge area on the Kidson sub-basin as it can be seen above. That is the biggest chunck of the prospective fault-basin boundaries area given on EIA's map. Hess has the southern part of it but that area is too deep. It is most probably overmatured and could be prospective only for gas (costly to extract as well). However I think Hess will try it over the time. Many parts of Kidson sub-basin might be found very prospective (in some sweet spots) if a lot of wells could be drilled for some time. I believe there is reason that Hess got it. Good for the future I guess.
Also, that's why Buru paid $36m to REY's tenements and also got some share on OBL's tenements. Otherwise Buru didn't have enough area on the prospective fault-basin baundaries of Fitzroy Trough. (REY's 10% share on this basin will be very valuable in the future. I hold REY)
Gregory Trough is mainly dominated by NSE and Backreef Oil (Private co.?). Buru has a little bit of share there. Laurel Formation is nearly proved to be prospective on this area whih is the trend of Fitzroy Trough.
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