November 2029

Much to our chagrin, the United States' policy of nationalizing the major fossil fuel companies has made American oil giants much more difficult to work with. Suddenly, their leadership (a bunch of communists in the American government) care about things like "a global Green New Deal" and "ending global reliance on oil." What the hell is that? This rot has penetrated so deep into the governance of these companies that when we offered Chevron the deal of a lifetime--joint development of the largest tight oil find in history--the American government forced them to say no.

This leaves us in something of a worrying predicament. As it stands, most of the world's top tight oil extraction talent is in the United States, where shale oil and hydraulic fracking have been a major part of American energy policy for the last thirty or forty years. No one can extract tight oil quite as well (or quite as cheaply) as they can. And if we're going to make Bahrain's massive tight oil deposits competitive on the global market place, by God, we need to make them as cheap as possible. And yet, this talent is now locked away behind a bunch of hippies in the American Senate, unable to help us reap the beautiful bounty of Bahrain's tight oil. It is the forbidden fruit, trapped in the Garden of Eden.

We've considered just buying the whole damn garden, but for some reason, we don't think the American Senate will be too keen on selling us the entirety of Chevron--nor do we think that the price tag of all of Chevron is worth paying just for their tight oil extraction talent. So if we can't buy the garden, and they won't let us in, we'll have to try something else.

We'll hire all the gardeners.

As part of the Green New Deal, the United States will be progressively phasing out its fossil fuel related endeavors. In the long run, this means there will be thousands of former fossil fuel employees who are booted out of their field due to no fault of their own. While the federal jobs guarantee will ensure that these people aren't permanently unemployed, it will still represent a dramatic cut in their income and their quality of life. Petroleum engineers are some of the best paid professionals in the world, and we doubt that the US Government will be paying six figures to dig holes, or to whatever it is they're using as makework programs to hire the millions of unemployed Americans. So as we see it, the petroleum engineers and other brainiacs in the American fossil fuel industry are going to face a choice very soon: switch careers and take a pay cut, or take your skills somewhere that actually wants them.

Enter ADNOC. Using perfectly legitimate and legal hiring channels, ADNOC is going to start an aggressive hiring campaign targeting mid- to high-level employees at American fossil fuel companies, targeting individuals with knowledge and expertise in tight oil, oil shale, and fracking. Our hiring efforts will target just about every firm in the United States, from the giants like ExxonMobil and Chevron to the smaller firms like Chesapeake Energy and Anadarko. Potential hires will be offered extremely competitive compensation packages--upwards of 1.5x what they could make with their skills and experience in the United States (which is considerably higher than what they'll be making in some makework job from the federal government). Examples of benefits (which will be doled out on a case-by-case basis, scaling with how important the hire is) will include fully funded relocation to Abu Dhabi or Dubai; subsidized or free education at some of the best private schools in the country; free healthcare; and competitive retirement plans.

Once collected, this talent will be directed towards the task of improving ADNOC's shale oil and tight oil extraction practices, with the ultimate goal of allowing ADNOC to develop Bahrain's offshore tight oil resources. We expect results in this process by as early as 2030 or 2031, with development of the field beginning shortly thereafter.