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Bass Strait takes it on the chin

THE boys at Bass Strait Oil are experiencing the hero to zero phenomenon. The stock was over 80c last week - this week it closed at 23c - a serious plunge in any man’s language. It would have been a long time since former Shell chief executive Bernard Wheelahan was as personally involved in the fortunes of a well as he is now as he leads BAS.

Bass Strait takes it on the chin

No doubt he’ll take the failure of ZaneGrey-1 on the chin (take note Dave Archibald) but there’s possibly a degree of longing for the old days when layers of Shell PR types protected the board from the...

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