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I have been somewhat following this discussion and as to the "proven
reserve" why would anyone putting out the money for what exploration
has been done want to freely share this with their competitors and a
bunch of so called experts that could not count their family jewls
twice and come up with the same answer.

Are you familiar with leases?

Oops we forgot to measure the
output, Duh, if you want to know put your money where your mouth is.
As far as the government experts how could they possibly know how
much oil is in Alaska when all the dipsticks are in Washington DC.

Are you familiar with "attracting capital" and how said capital is used for
drilling/exploration?

MOF, are you familiar with anything other than lame, elementary school
humor?