What regions offer the greatest potential success to small caps and independents?

In preparation for the World Independent Oil Companies Congress I asked key speakers their thoughts on ‘What regions offer the greatest potential success to small caps and independents’. Here are their responses from the end of 2011:

**Mikhail Ivanov, CEO, Volga Gas

All regions have their pluses and minuses. There is always a room for small independent companies to operate even on a small scale or as a part of bigger conglomerates.

**Andrew Buglass, Head of Energy Structured Finance, Corporate & Institutional Banking, RBS

Arctic

Heavy oil

Potential freeing up of OPEC areas as result of Arab Spring 

US offshore; not just GoM

**Alec Robinson, President, Taipan Resources

Sub-Saharan Africa, obviously.   That is why we are focussing our attention there.

Do you agree with their comments?

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