Surely any self-respecting business development executive would...

Surely any self-respecting business development executive would take one look at all of this (having read Paul Quodling's book on how it all started in 1987) and say it's all your's BCL and good luck ! Talk about sovereign risk; it's hard to take any of the players (National Government, ABG, SMLOLA, Miriori, Momis etc etc) seriously. BCL deserves a medal for hanging in since the closure in 1989 and some sort of award for foolishness should go to RTG (and to anyone else who sticks their hand up for the exploration lease).