, Jan. 4 -- Imagine for a second that a country has floated an open tender inviting foreign companies to bid for a gas field exploration in joint partnership with a state-run company. An intense competition among global bidders takes place and an evaluation by international experts ranks these competitors. But with a change in government, the least qualified bidder ends up getting the contract. A bribery scheme of the least qualified bidder manages to buy allegiance of those closely connected to the son of the prime minister. The company is granted rights to explore a new gas field by classifying it as an abandoned gas field. When the company starts drilling work, two massive blowouts occur. Those blowouts that happened in 2005 are still ...