Maybe this explains Duma

[Gator]

Oil Search Ltd is a Papua New Guinea-registered entity and
PNG's dominant oil and gas exploration and production
company. Oil is the dominant product, while large undeveloped
gas reserve is being developed via the PNG LNG project..
Other exploration is underway in the Middle East. The PNG
government is the largest shareholder.

If the PNG government is the largest shareholder in Oil Search, they obviously want them to succeed and even excel, maybe to the detriment of the completion.

[jft310]

Duma want the cake and to eat it also. He wants it all.He will be made to look good in the end. Forcing IOC to deal with Exxon vs EWC/FLEX is not a bad thing.