Ann: Onshore Indonesian Oil Operations Update - February 2019, page-38

stockpuppet, that's standard reporting, nothing suss. The thing is with Bass they have a very experienced and reputable team with runs on the board, an attractive business plan that will pay off in spades when it comes to fruition. All i was trying to highlight was that patience is required and that the T-S field should be viewed as nothing more than laying the foundations. To break even on it is a win as it's about opening up opportunities going forward. They're building relationships and reputation in the region. As mandp points out, the gross-split regime isn't cut and dry, there's many variables but it goes someway to explaining as to why they're not generating the kind of profits some were (unrealistically) expecting. You see, they're already on the cusp of hitting positive territory, add in just 1 lookalike asset and they start to generate a tidy little profit.