(03-19-2014, 12:15 PM)jft310 Wrote:Palm was the original poster . It was a lead story that I remembered and reposted it here because many had not read the story or had not remembered it if they did.
I cut and pasted what Palm posted .I added no commentary. The line you ask about has quotes after it and it implies it came from the Total spokesperson.
The link worked on Palms post. May have been corrupted when cut and pasted.
Wrong, I'm afraid. The quotation mark after that last sentence is the one at the end of the article that partners with the one at the beginning of the article, which stand for the quoting of the entire article. The next-to-the-last sentence is presented as a quotation from the Total "spokesman", with quotation marks at the beginning and end of it, indicating that the last line is NOT a continuation of the spokesman's statement. That statement by the Total spokesman actually contradicts the last following sentence, which very clearly appears to be a statement by the reporter who wrote the article, with no indication of where he got it or how he reached such a conclusion!
The original article posting by Palm is the 3/4/14 thread with the same heading as the article, "Total hails Oil Search as perfect PNG partner".
A good article to read in conjunction with this one is the 3/2/14 article in AFR (Australia Financial Review) posted by Brew Swillis in the 3/2/14 thread, "AFR - Total confirms intent".