Sub-prime reserves

LOL! Yeah and pretty soon we'll have No-Doc reserves!

TS

More like No-Doc seismic. Trust us, it's there.

And negative depletion fields, the more you produce, the more you have in reserve.

Moody's and S&P can get into geological audits. They need something. "For $50k, we will give all the reserves you want."

LOL

In my attempts to formulate the laws of complex systems the top law is.

A complex system under stress will modify itself to hide its true condition.

I dare say this is another example of the law in action.
Its yet one more example of information becoming corrupted as we pass into a post peak world. I'm not suggesting conspiracy theories or any thing of the sort just that this is a very natural sort of change and expected if this law is valid.