I have little experience in Oilies, I only bought RKH a couple of days ago at 325p.
How does the off shore drilling actually work? Obviously there isn't the tv image of oil spiking into the air and soaking the ground, but at what point do they know that they've hit oil?
My train of thought centres on the issue that while the BoD has a legal obligation to release price sensitive information asap, surely that information has to be qualified? If you don't find any HC's, then it's pretty cut and dried, but if you do, the devil is in the detail and it isn't about finding oil, it's about how much oil has been found. That must take time?
We're not going to encounter a Texan driller telling his mates his hands are oily, but is there a metaphorical equivalent for Off Shore Drilling?