RE:RE:RE:RE:That explains Art and his cronies getting free optionsXOP already took 30 million options earlier this year. Nobody minds management getting a decent wage and some options. The ongoing problem here has always been XOP's extravagant compensation and spending, with no revenues, and massive option grants. This 7.5 million options was a double down this year. Of course they won't exercise them if this doesn't play out. But if it does play out, they have a free ride. This last option grant is just too close to a spud date, that they had to know was coming. That is a problem. Management must be confident that Block 13 will prove out, to dilute investors that much more after 4 years of living off financings.