Spain's Repsol Plans Oil Drilling in Cuba in 2004

[guajira]

Makes regime change in Cuba even more tempting for WH invaders!

snippet:
Cuba in December estimated its 2003 oil production at 260.4 million barrels (713,000 barrels per day), a 2.5 percent increase on 2002.

Foreign companies, mainly Canadian firms Sherritt International Corp. (S.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) and Pebercan Inc. (PBC.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) , have joint ventures and production agreements with state oil monopoly Cubapetroleo (Cupet) and account for around 60 percent of Cuba's oil and gas output.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=0FJLBMEZC15UQCRBAEOCFEY?type=topNews&storyID=4425633

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. SEND IN THE MARINES!

[Vogon_Glory]

2. Sour Stuff But Fun To Watch

I'm told that Cuban oil is "sour" (i.e. it has a high sulphur content), but it's entertaining to know that the Cubans are proving that times have changed, and that the US isn't quite the economic colossus it was a generation or two ago, when it could bend the rest of the world to its bidding.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. I hear Dick Cheney likes to pour it over ice cream.

So he might not like this particular kind.