Rheddle, a sensible post. What Electick is saying is that US majors will not buy into an ERHC/Offor company. What else is new? lol So all these esoteric Asian-Indian names pop up - though not so esoteric really. As long as it looks like Chevron could be cooperating with the operators of blocks 4 and 2: Addax and Sinopec, all can be good. And there are possible back ups in European majors who have succesfully struck oil in the JDZ such as Total (France) and Fina (Spain).