We’re excited to be part of the museum’s renewal and its innovative approach to presenting current, objective scientific information about environmental change to the public.

It is rare to have the opportunity to acquire a set of properties with the fit that we see here in the U.K. Central North Sea and Norway.

This is an attractive opportunity for Talisman and is a logical continuation of Talisman’s successful business model. These assets materially enhance Talisman’s production growth profile and offer significant cash generation potential.

We don’t think that selling is the way to maximize value. And we would like to retain some interest in some vehicle going forward. It’s a thing we have in mind and we’ll be doing...

It will help deliver production per share growth for Talisman, which is now expected to be in excess of 10% per annum from 2006 through 2008.

It doesn’t need it. We can tolerate prices significantly less, but obviously it’s a big boost to come at the higher prices,

Moreover, we will have a bigger company, more flexibility and more ability to make good investments.

It’s not a major feature of the transaction. We’ll have to sort of regroup and think about it, but our balance sheet’s not so stretched that we instantly have to sell things,