I can't do much with a bar of gold either, because I don't own a smelter. But it's worth something...because people want it.
Who wants Block 4?
Kosmos/BP Total
and possibly others.
Kosmos valued just that block alone at $500 million. ERHC won the case. Hence, we have an asset worth $500 million.
And that's not including the JDZ blocks which Total is also interested as evidenced by Total's multi billion dollar purchases of the non-ERHC JDZ blocks already.