The whole time-consuming process was rather cleverly scripted;...

The whole time-consuming process was rather cleverly scripted; after 7 or 8 months of gradual accretion of NWE shares by MIN/selling out by NWE Management, a projection by the same guileness NWE management that a re-interpretation of the proposed "next" drill could very well be water logged and their recommendation to remaining NWE holders to "get-out-now, accept the revised MIN offer"...and then the clincher of swapping the order of the drilling program so that the drill bit had a better chance of drowning in water than if the original schedule of drilling had been adhered to...all the while the MIN shareprice/carrot was flirting with a $100.

Bollywood/Hollywood scriptwriters would be impressed; especially with that seemingly harmless, but "apparently necessary" switcheroo in the sequence of the drills being undertaken.