[OT] I blame all this on John Loose, the ex-CEO of Corning. Loose lost a lot of shareholder value and almost bankrupted the company during the aftermath of the dot-com/telecom bubble nine years ago, and the company properly responded by loosing Loose into the ranks of the unemployed.
Sinopec is looking to build on its 2.8 billion barrels of proven reserves by adding to its portfolio Addax's 536 million-plus barrels of proved and probable reserves. Addax averaged production of 136.5 million barrels a day last year.
I don’t think so inasmuch as 136 million barrels/day is about 50% more than the total worldwide production of oil from all sources!! (See #msg-38694757.)
Thanks to ‘old man’ on the Natural Resources Stocks board for this find (#msg-39012107).