The most important point I got out of the article was Rosseau's dislike for the joint ventures that Nemis was making. The bottom line is that these J.V.s made it complicated in selling the ROF land to a major. Now they are potentially waiting it out and see how many jv's default and then they re-acquire the land. I don't remember who it was, but another of our posters presented this over the last couple of weeks. There was also the mention made that to keep NOT's sp down was to keep the others down as well, sealing the other companies financial fate over tough times. So NOT keeps drilling ..... and waiting.....with no news, until they've got what they want.... and then suddenly all the backlog of cores start to get some attention.