I just love the term...."undiscovered"....and then an statement saying how much is there!
I will have to admit....500 barrels of oil a day is a huge amount.
Key thing is the US Government found time between murdering all these thousands of innocent Afghani's to find a source of oil and gas that could be developed for domestic use by the Afghan people.
Why who knows...they might be able to build some electric generation plants and not have to import their electricity.
Just ruining the country aren't we?
Imagine the fight between the War Lords over who gets the dosh to build the infrastructure and benefit from the profits of the production....that will be nastier than the fight over the Poppy business.
I wonder why Obama/Hu Solyndra et al have not pushed for Wind Farms and Solar fields there yet? As the Afghanistan air is fairly pristine (less say Kabul and a couple of other towns)...it would prevent any air pollution from occurring.