Ann: Drilling Completed at Alacran, page-42

Big stick? They have big pockets and that's why we are in partnership with them.

No precedent? How about they're just a big bureaucracy, just like any large organisation. Remember it took over 12 months for a JV deal to be negotiated, remember when you were saying a JV wasn't going to happen?

There are layers of decision making in these big outfits, which is why they are less suited to exploration, which requires lateral thinking and adaptability.

And why they called AZS pronto when results were known prior to the JV negotiations. They called AZS. Not the other way around. Despite being reminded of this, and other realities, GS was persistently negative.

Sure, it took time but STILL it moved in the right direction. Some seem impressive on details and short on commonsense.