[R W Reactionairy]

Nigeria and IIRC Indonesia let private oil companies operate. Nigeria has all kinds of problems with corruption and low grade warfare that are limiting production. Indonesia may just plain be over the hill, or maybe corruption is the limiting factor there also.

[Robert A Cook PE]

My BIL has had many very serious, very fundamental problems in Indonesian oil fields in fire fighting, pollution control, basic field operation, and (above all) bureaucracy “requesting” bribes to get approvals through for eqpt, people, hiring local companies, supplies, etc.