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Hmm, you know I have been posting about oil stuff for quite awhile but I don't recall ever intentionally using the word "play" to describe a prospective reservoir. I always knew what it meant, but it seemed to insider talk for my tastes. So when I see it used, I immediately think about the possibility that AdvancedNano reads too many press briefings or worse, is some sort of shill.
A similar thing occurs when I read about an earthquake. If people read only newspapers, everyone would go around calling it a "temblor". Now I look it up and find it is just Spanish for "earthquake". So these journalists go around and use the word Temblor because they probably secretly want to impress somebody. Or they happen to be a Mexican seismographer.
Play (n): Oil industry jargon for a prospective reservoir. Used by investors to hype something.
I did cut and paste a some of the sentences from the press release on the natural gas discovery. So what. I gathered information (which happened to be company reports and press releases) on over a dozen of the biggest oil projects. It seems likely that if an oil project is going to start producing or is producing this year then the company working on it would have a pretty good sense of it was going to happen. If a company says that they are going to start up a project this month, I would tend to believe them since there is little uncertainty. If they are promising for the next year or later then a lot more can go wrong.
So I added information and research to this oildrum discussion. My website http://nexbigfuture.com you can see that I have almost 2100 articles (43 of which are about oil). You and other here whenever they see any information from a company or from someone who has a position that is positive on any industry or company have a knee jerk reaction ... shill. Which is an assertion without facts.
You parse one or two words in one of serveral 1000 word posts.
Why don't you try to find some information about why particular projects will not happen if you believe your case (as one of the other commenters Robert Marsdon did). Bring some information and research to your position.