?Up the downed escalator: During Oil and Gas Investor and A&D Watch’s A&D Strategies and Opportunities conference held at the lovely Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, cocktail-time chit chat ranged from commodity prices, upcoming election maneuverings and the impact any type of alternative fuels would have on global supply and demand scenarios.


Fred Sewell, retired founder of Netherland, Sewell & Associates Inc. and now an owner of a start-up E&P, Sovereign Resources LLP, was climbing up the steps of a temporarily non-functioning escalator, and offered this comment to a commiserating glance by another attendee: “Must be solar powered.