Crazicajun, the emerging theme throughout this 'investigation' in the newspaper/internet articles has been:
There's this small US e&p company that made such a great deal re:block awards that it's causing an international shit-storm.
The articles have gotten a lot of coverage, imo and combine that with lay people learning of the West Africa/GOG oil plays within this past year and I sense that this incident, if it's not our downfall, will propel us.