I do not know enough to say yeah or nay....yet.

One thing we know for sure is he has most if not all the high level world wide contacts in the oil industry.

This allows him to have a much broader base to deal with on a world wide basis that always being forced to look at the world of oil through the middle east optics.

They are not the center of the universe in the production of oil as we have allowed to to believe they are.