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Our view is that we're in the business to create long-term value. Long-term is not 6 months. Long-term also isn't squeezing all the value out of an asset in its first 3 years.
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There are two things of real value we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
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In the end, you'll end up with a soft partition of Iraq, a very decentralized government, with authority granted to three provinces.
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We're big enough to look for oil anywhere, but small enough to act fast. We don't have to go through five layers of executives to find a vice president on vacation in the Bahamas to get a decision.
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So many family-owned oil companies no longer exist because they failed what I call the intergenerational management succession challenge.