Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd (GUKYF)

[DocLevi]

I've always wondered if the lack of payments was because of some hijack or black market selling (theft basically) and not the nonsense low price/budget junk....

....French President Francois Hollande said Wednesday that the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle had set off from the Mediterranean port of Toulon, boosting the number of jets available for strikes to 48 from 12. Hollande is due to meet his U.S. and Russian counterparts in Washington and Moscow next week to discuss coordinating actions.

The U.S. may have delayed attacking fuel convoys in the past because its initial priority was to destroy targets directly controlled by Islamic State and more central to the production process, according to Valerie Marcel, an associate fellow at Chatham House. It hit depots and makeshift refineries first, which forced the group to sell crude “directly at the wellhead” and ended most of its sales into Turkey’s lucrative black market, she said.

Targeting trucks is a “new element” of the war against the extremists and “a good strategy,” Marcel said. “Last year, they controlled the whole supply chain up to the border, but now the situation has changed dramatically.”.... http://boereport.com/2015/11/19/obama-in-sync-with-putin-on-bombing-islamic-state-oil-riches/

Sounds like they're not going to get paid for past deliveries....