IMHO, he believes there are too many unknowns still in ERHE for anyone to buy us out at anything but bargan basement pricing.
Still IMHO, before anyone like Sinopec would offer Offor anything aproaching his price(weather $10.00 or $5.00)we first must have settled block 5 & 6 rights, our EEZ 15%ers, comerciality of block 2,3 &4( which SNP may know)and comerciality of EEZ, I believe SNP is willing to pay top dollar for proven but, nothing for speculative prospects.
It is also MHO that SEO will make no deal untill he gets the First Alantic 8% back under what he considers to be a good or reasonable deal. I believe there is constant negotiatons going on between several interested parties with SNP playing how low will you go and Offor stating we are golden. Sometime they are gpoing to get enough information to reach some kind of a deal, but not tomorrow or the next day