krom - try PM'd it to me so i do apologize as you were right on that. i still dont believe they paid 500mm though. i guess we will have to agree to disagree as i doubt the number will ever be made public.
as i recall, a chevron rep had quotes in the news a few months after obo-1 was finished stating that it was not commercial on its own and that it was about a 100 million barrel find.