If I am reading that right then the poll was conducted on 31st December which was before the Venezuela adventure (View Post)

I turned down a job last year as an Ops Geologist in Surinam (rubbish pay and poor security arrangments). That whole crescent of offshore North East South America has a huge amount of potential for v… (View Post)

It's not an either/or situation. We need both a rules based international order and high defence spending. The big mistake that was made after 1989 was the idea of a 'peace dividend' f… (View Post)

Venezuela claims most of the offshore area of Guyana as well as huge swathes of the country itself. But the main Guyanan oil fields are offshore and it is there that the biggest dispute lies. Venezue… (View Post)

China, Russia AND the US. (View Post)