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Our current world tour has taken us to such locations as South America and Africa,
oil-producing venues where -- along, of course, with the Persian Gulf
region of the Middle East -- capability exists for at least minor
political and geopolitical skirmishes.
We'll now head for the South China Sea, which just this week is being
hit by escalating tensions among those countries that claim ownership
of all or part of it. From an energy perspective, however, the
difference between the Asian body of water and our previous stops
involves sizable discoveries in the latter, while the former is still
generally on the proverbial come.