RE: RE: RE: malcys view..27 Jan 2019 11:14
GM buccaneer1961, I agree with you the latest technology is important. But much more important is the responsibility of the people leading the search and the Mongolian government itself. If there were enough of that there should never happen such idiotic problems as visas, late preparation and delivery of the rig, delay in processing all of necessary permits, postpone the drillings etc. Therefore, in Soviet times, and especially under Stalin’s rule, when there was proper control over the expenditure and the strictest labor discipline in both of these countries the one year only was needed to discover the first oil field in Mongolia, since the Mongolian government personally appealed to comrade Stalin. Even in later years soviet experts in very short period of time have discovered oil in such taiga wilds, and in particular in Siberia, where very few people thought that there could be the country's largest oil fields. But when there is no proper control, and money can be cut from investors, like wool from sheep, then why they need to rush to the discovery of oil, when even without oil you can live a luxurious life.
Btw did you e-mail Mike about Rex? It would be interesting to know his opinion. But I assume that his opinion will be very similar, like that of Spainish.