To: siempre who wrote (5556 ) 2/17/2004 2:37:50 PM From: marcos Respond to Nigeria? .... isn't that a little surprising, considering it is a major oil producer, and all those big companies will be right there with their production facilities .... you'd think they'd want the local downstream as well, for presence and prestige reasons if nothing else .... hmm, can't pretend to know much about this .... but clearly dmw management do .... they're in a lot different cash-flow and treasury position than they were a few months ago, now that Koidu is rolling, that placement closed, and the various oil-trading deals are proceeding .... it's not out of the question that these other-country deals could aid them in smoothing out the zambian problem of last year [? - just musing on that, but it seems that if other countries find it advantageous to deal with Petroplus et al, then a logical inference is that they were not the bad actors in Zambia, rather it was a local corruption problem] ... [quelle surprise] .... you know what's gonna happen one of these days? - Luo .... yes, angolans too got tired of civil war ... there is Yetwene as well, and various other properties in Angola, don't know which they'd reopen first
