hardman and tullow both well up in london, page-5

re: serious problems in nigeria Bottom line! African/Asian oil interests will get more unstable before they get more stable. A high oil price perpetuates itself. Greed and corruption come well ahead of investor profits. No sovereign risk ascribed to many of these oil/gas stocks. Sure they can't swim but surely some of the bros have boats. Shonkey govts can drum up insurrection to garner higher payoffs. That is probably why you are better off just buying oil futures. Then this sort of crap actually benefits your investment. Don't have to worry about a company's issues in getting the damn stuff out of the ground.