re: OT O&G folks . . . anybody done a stint in Nigeria?

Ehh... I dunno about that. Venezuela has fallen off from what it was, which was an aspirant county. The Stans have always been absolutely shite. They've never aspired to or moved up toward anything but violence and frickwad backwards Islam. Even before Islam... hell, when Alexander the Great went through there it was backwards. Homeboy made it to the Syr Darya, said "frick this" and headed southeast to India.