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Eroie Van Tanstaafl on September 28, 2005 - 2:45pm

That tells me that the Saudis have VERY profitable drilling prospects. If they can afford to pay more than anyone else for the rigs, it can only be because they are certain that their remainging costs will be lower than everybody elses - the oil they are going after is going to be very cheap to extract and deliver.

And that implies that they have quite a bit of it still in the ground, relative to the rest of the world.

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Stuart Staniford on September 28, 2005 - 4:08pm

Why are they exploring in deep water when they supposedly have a half trillion barrels of proven reserves in their existing fields?

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