Investors may have good reason to worry about America's future, but for now, at least, the world stilll revolves around America.

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It is possible that when production begins (soon, we hope) in the Ultra Deep play that the MMR joint venture is pursuing, the reservoirs found will, like Sunny, stilll be producing 30, 40 or 50 years from now.

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