I blogged on Friday about how one of the Wikileaked (can we use that as a verb yet?) cables showed ExxonMobil’s scepticism about Falklands oil. The memo said:

ExxonMobil International Chairman Brad Corson told us he does not believe there is enough oil on the Falkland Islands Continental Shelf to be profitable, citing Shell’s earlier oil exploration attempts which they abandoned.

At the time shares in the major companies drilling for oil in the area were unchanged – after all, it didn’t sound like Corson knew anything nobody else did.