CNOOC not Chevron. The BS environmental storm willprevent any of the big corps from becoming involved. They are now beholden to the bespoke hypocrate orgs. I have gone through this decades ago with Petrokazakhstan. The crooks who run the country wanted to steal the company so they wiped up all this BS about them stealling the resources of the country. Instead of getting taken completely to the cleaners Petrokazakhstand sold out to the chinese, at a bargin, but nevertheless a good enough price to make me some money.
China is active with all resources in aftrica so they would be an ideal partner/possible buyer of the company for close to market value.