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88Energy – Some hope at last, when previously there was little...but

Over the last few years I have watched passively as 88Energy (88E) has tried to exploit what it perceives as great oil opportunities at Icewine and has been happy to bandy about some very large resource numbers, only equalled by the number of bulletin board posts on the matter and the number of words in the torrent of RNS irrelevance. A new farmout deal to Premier Oil (PMO) looks to me like the first real sign that 88Energy actually may have a chance of delivering something of value. But....

By Peter Brailey | Published 2019-08-23 08:31:20 |

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TOM21 Sep 2026

i think he did and put fagash in his place but fagash reckons he won hands down

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Learning Welsh or having a monthly Church lecture on the poor Palestinians and blessed asylum seekers

ENTERNAMEHERE21 Sep 2026

TW: did Chris Gilbert hold his own at Sharestock?

Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Learning Welsh or having a monthly Church lecture on the poor Palestinians and blessed asylum seekers

EASYASOT321 Sep 2026

Both the size (in active soldiers) and strength/power are useful metrics. Multiple sources may help people decide on what the actual situation is.

New, or not so new, anti Government alliance in Ethiopia – am I panicking about Kefi? No.

TOM21 Sep 2026

business insider says largest No 1The first link is ranking something completely different, not size of armyTRT has numbers totally out of kilter with everyone else3rd link also ranking something differentDont you check the gibberish you post or do you just have a screw loose?

New, or not so new, anti Government alliance in Ethiopia – am I panicking about Kefi? No.

EASYASOT321 Sep 2026

Several sites ranking the strength and size of Africa's armies.Ethiopia ranked 6th: https://www.globalmilitary.net/rankings/countries/military-power/africa/Ethiopia in top 5: https://www.trtafrika.com/english/article/35d7e59fe9a6Ethiopia ranked 5th: https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing-africa.phpEthiopiaranked 1st: https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/top-10-african-countries-with-the-largest-active-military-manpower-at-the-start-of/hjczbqx

New, or not so new, anti Government alliance in Ethiopia – am I panicking about Kefi? No.

EASYASOT321 Sep 2026

https://borkena.com/explainer-what-is-the-alliance-for-survival-ethiopias-new-armed-opposition-coalition/

New, or not so new, anti Government alliance in Ethiopia – am I panicking about Kefi? No.

TOM21 Sep 2026

So he might have known about it before it happened, Mystic Harry

New, or not so new, anti Government alliance in Ethiopia – am I panicking about Kefi? No.

TOM21 Sep 2026

the alliance is of groups in different places with only 3 forces being in any way serious. So the situation on the ground in TK is unch.Yes the government had almost entirely controlled the OLA over eight years. Just in the way we in the UK almost control ISIS but Then Ariana Grande occurs does that make you write the entire UK off?

New, or not so new, anti Government alliance in Ethiopia – am I panicking about Kefi? No.

EASYASOT321 Sep 2026

BBC: "The government has been fighting the OLA since 2018." Eight years later OLA carries out the attack on Tuli Kapi.If the government was unable to get rid of OLA in 8 years, then why would we expect it to do so quickly now, when it is now part of a 7-member armed alliance?

New, or not so new, anti Government alliance in Ethiopia – am I panicking about Kefi? No.