The hoopla about the Jack well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico's Lower Tertiary trend,and the first flow of crude oil through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan(BTC)Pipeline,are signposts of how time-consuming and difficult major oil and gas projects can be.You have to be able to ride through the commodity price and geopolitical cycles.It took patience to bring these world-class projects to fruition.But that's a commodity in short supply in this hurry-up world where we race to meet this quarter's bottom line.We wait impatiently for a fast response to our last email.From a continent away,news photos arrive on our desk top 10 minutes after an event happens,whether it's important or not.We are losing sight of how patience is required in life,in the oil and gas business,for investing,and certainly in the matter of geopolitics.
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