Researcher - can you explain why Big Oil has spent billions over the last five years of so to advance a major gas sales if they weren't interested in the project? Why buy 600 acres in nikiski for an LNG facility? Why waist the time of hundreds of people, including their top LNG talent, on a project they didn't care about? Why spend the time and money on engineering and design work and gathering baseline data? Why secure DOE export approval and submit thousands of pages in resource reports to the FERC? Why put in aloof the infrastructure necessary to blow down Point Thomson? 

Does Exxon really waste its shareholders money and their top talent on projects they aren't serious about?