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About this time last month I was at a party at The Spectator, drunkenly urging anyone who’d listen to buy into this amazing share I’d discovered called Tullow Oil. I’d done exceptionally well by this little gem over the last 12 months and I wanted as many people as possible to share in my joy so that when — as was inevitable — it reached ten quid a share we would all have doubled or trebled or even quadrupled our money.
‘But what does it actually do?’asked Martin Vander Weyer. ‘Well, it’s in oil,’ I said. ‘Yes, but is it an exploration company or what?’ ‘Oh, I dunno. Drilling, exploring, that sort of caper. Based in Ireland, I think, but it doesn’t really matter. The point is it’s doing really, really well.’
The very next day Tullow Oil announced that it had capped two of its exploration sites, one in Pakistan, the other in Gabon, having realised that there was no oil there.
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