"Hi Bill,

If you have the time and the interest, I recommend picking up the September 2006 issue of Scientific American "Energy's Future Beyond Carbon".

It's one of their special issues, this time concentrating on energy and our various options. In light of energy's central importance, and the various claims and numbers that get thrown around in discussions, I think objective reading along the lines of Scientific American is necessary.

Keep up the excellent work. Thank you also for putting those 'anti-politics' proselytisers in their place.

Kind regards,

Peter"

Russia and Kazakhstan are key to the global oil market. Russia you know already; Kazakhstan you might not know, but it happens to be the ninth largest country in the world by area. Its natural resource riches, including oil, will enable the country to approximately triple GDP between 2000 and 2015.

I have readers there, and I'm part of an Old Boys Club at a professional accounting firm that is looking to recruit three senior energy people. They hired a London England based head-hunter firm who have advertised.

I'm in no way connected to the deal, but I think, for the right candidates, these jobs could be good ones, so I'm passing along the mail.

"Bill,

(Mr. B) suggested I give you a ring. I am a headhunter and am looking for senior Performance Improvement consultants to be Equity Partners in the Eastern European practice of PwC. I am looking for people with experience of PI preferably in the Oil & Gas and Energy sectors or at least including some experience in this sector.

They will come either from a Big 4 accounting firm or other Management Consulting firm or indeed they may have gained their experience in an Operational role in an appropriate company. Their experience may be either financial or operational.

As you can see from the attached Job descriptions I am looking for people at three levels-a Lead Partnerfor the practice based in Moscow, a Director or Junior Partner in Moscow and a Partner based in Almaty. Partner remuneration in this very profitable and fast-growing practice is (excellent) and the tax rate there is only 13%!

I would be very grateful for any suggestions as to suitable people for these roles-either candidates or sources who could put me in touch with such candidates.

Many thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours
Sam Bell"

At some point, I hope that myGrassroot is able to pass along opportunities like this every day and that the people who get involved take the time to pass along their knowledge and experience.

We should be able to say: "Oil in Almaty Kazakhstan?... Oh yes, that's Frank or Marie."

And when we can say that, we will know we have our own army at work 24 hours a day in every nook and cranny of this earth. Then we'll see just how big "They" are compared to "Us".