##""So they have probably conducted a number of them...

##""So they have probably conducted a number of them already.""##

Correct. But they failed to tell us anything which might not be as good as they would like to tell us.

As for your last paragraph, I totally agree with you. The last 700 metres could be the make or break of this well IMO.

And now, by looking at the last two announcements of the 25th and the 28th of June current where we went from 425 metres in length into the lateral to 2274 metres in just 3 or 4 days, (if mathematics is not an opinion of course), we should be just about there with the last 700 metres to reach the planned horizontal length.