Tryoty, how do you force a Major to pay what ERHE their worth....Simple, one word....competition.
There exists on 3 options;
1) ERHE grows into an Oil company;
2) ERHE gets bought out by an international company (Chinese, Dutch etc)
3) ERHE gets bought out by an American company.
The term 'bought out' is a liberal term and you can substitute "buy in".
If ERHE is good enought for CVX to buy, it is good enought for SNP to buy. Now I ask you, who is hungrier for resources? I think the Chinese, are more threaten then the Americans. Therefore...competition, got to love capitalism!
Brez