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And he's earned a nice bonus for closing the deal with which he will likely be buying IOC shares.
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I remember Bostonkenmore arguing how OilSearch wasn't interested at all in our licenses or the Gulf area, as it was already "heavily explored" and nobody found anything and it would take just "one phone call" to OilSearch to corroborate all this..
That phone call came, and it was from Botton to Civelli... (and even before that the joint seismics with IOC)
Anyway, all of this is history, although it is my understanding that the shorts did have a case pre-Antelope1. After that, one could argue over valuation, but it was pretty clear from then on that E/A would not stay undeveloped for much longer.
It took quite some time nevertheless, and we're still not entirely there.