Norway has oil and NATO, Iceland has fish and NATO and Finland has the EU. Without it, we would be economically weaker and have less security.

We're evaluating various opportunities in real estate, as well as in the oil and gas business with the increased revenues we've been receiving. We're planning to invest the oil and gas capital commensurate with the increased revenue.

Any company can double its stock price. We believe our stock price is still undervalued based on our oil and gas assets and the (Big Island) real estate still to be valued.

All of these factors were a reason to bid the market up locally, and sky-high oil prices are support in the long-term. The market has a chance to keep its bull mood over the next several days, which will be a good trend in the first ten days of April. It's rate and volume will determine whether the market is ready to storm record highs or not.

As long as there's unrest in the Middle East and troops in Iraq, commodity prices will remain high. Oil and gas companies are spending greater amounts of capital investing in exploration and development, which is our particular niche, and that's going to generate a lot of projects in the coming years.

Now that the baseline of demand has returned and (oil) prices returned to around $20 to $21 a barrel, the environment is such that there will be a return to exploration, and Schlumberger will be a big beneficiary.