| From: | Mike Goldberg <michael.goldberg@*******.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | oil company slides down the drain |
| Date: | Mon, 6 Oct 1997 22:36:25 MST |
have probably been suffering from boredom due to my prolong absence.
Well guess what .... I'm back.
The news from Europe is as boring as always. Maybe I didn't miss to
much in my mental vacation. We had the usual round of assassinations
(I counted five from this past weekend, but there was no one truly
notable in the deaths.) We also had the usual corporate raids,
policlub turf wars, etc. There was one news item, however, that
briefly caught my interest:
Amex, a small European oil company, lost one of their oil rigs in a
terrorist attack. Based on the fact there was no oil spill, I would
say that it was ecological terrorists that did the dirty deed. My
sources say that Amex Oil Company is indirectly owned by the big ol'
GA [Greenville-Adams PLC]. (Take that last bit with a grain of salt.
Any company in Europe that isn't clearly owned by anyone is suspected
to be part of GA's portfolio.)
The terrorist group, called "NSB" (I believe it, sadly enough, stands
for `Nature Strikes Back') just took credit for the atrocity,
although there were already two other small time terrorists groups
that made the claim as well. Based on the weather around the time of
the hit in the North Sea, I suspect it was NSB and not the other
pretenders due to the resources that would be needed to pull off the
hit.
Amex had what sounded like a pre-canned response to the incident, and
as I expected, as soon as the media got wind of it, the stock
plummeted. The company has yet to decide whether to try to establish
another platform there.
As always, I will keep you posted if there is any more interesting
news on this side of the pond. ]<<<<<
-- Ratspeak <04:40:23/07-OCT-58>
