http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article3907932.ece

Good point, Gahan.

It is becoming more unlikely that MOG will drill the much vaunted oil well in Area 4 early next year.

Firstly, there is the matter of litigation with Leni oil & Gas and secondly, we are dealing with a scoundrel named Tony Hayward (ex-BP boss responsible for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico) who is now CEO of Genel Energy that holds a 75% stake of Area 4 licence.

No one would touch Tony Hayward with a barge pole, except Malta, of course (should we sell him a passport?).

My question is: who gave the local ‘technical’ input that resulted in the PN government’s approval, only a few months ago, of MOG’s farm out of 75% of Area 4 licence to Genel Energy?

That ‘technical’ input came from Dr Albert Caruana, now Head of the Oil Exploration Division. Dr Caruana is not known for his knowledge of oil exploration but has talent for hugging his master Joe Mizzi right after the March election (he was hugging George before March, but in the Judas manner). He is flying to Rome today with Joe Mizzi for the Oil & Gas summit (more like anti-climax rather than a summit).

Meanwhile, Joe Mizzi keeps boasting about an oil well to be drilled in Area 4 early next year. Keep dreaming Joe. You are surrounded by incompetents and you exceed them in their stupidity.

Did they say that to Ramona? Konrad should be able to reduce the tariffs by 50.2348943% (you know, Konrad likes to be precise with his numbers) on average.

To complicate matters, Mediterranean Oil and Gas seems set to lose a court case against some other oil company and their share price has dwindled to £5 from the healthy £12 it was some months ago.

http://www.medoilgas.com/

Mediterranean Oil and Gas should be starting to drill for oil in Maltese waters in a few months’ time.

Joseph Muscat is trying to emulate what Mintoff did in the 1970s. I hope this nightmarish déjà vu will not end up with the Libyan gunboat, which is being repaired at the Cassar Ship Repair Yard, pointing its guns at the MOG oil rig.

He said that in the context of immigration.

But he doesn’t convince me.