the meeting with peter landau, page-8

Yes ds,

2004/5 looked even better for rrs

With kenny I have learnt to round down sp guesstimates that he sprukes by at least 50% and double time lines (at least)

With MEJ and Leo I have learnt that ''dont sell. It's going to 2 bux '' means 1 buck.

With Povey I have learnt that a minerals report has more to do with flying lead and covering up reports of deaths.

With Liban I have learnt that no matter who your uncle is, you can't afford to get HIS bosses off side, lest you live to regret it.

With Sir Sam I have learnt that it pays to advertise but that the star of the ad is totally unhappy with his appearance money.

But of most fundamental importance I have learnt that it is a huge ask to extract western oil from Islamic stone.

coupla weeks has blown out to coupla coupla weeks...that tells me that even kenny has had to re-evaluate the ''Oh well ,we are dealing with Africa, you know'' throw away line...May be it would be a tad more accurate to say, '' Oh well , we are dealing with Fundamentalist Islamic Africa that has it's strongest historical influence directly linked to it's middle eastern brothers''

Talks of pipelines when a rig delivery was supposedly halted because the TFG threatened to murder all involved could be a worry one would have to consider.