And any company wanting a secure export route in case the southern half of the country chose to secede in a referendum promised in 2011 would have to lay a pipeline to the Kenyan port of Lamu another huge challenge.
Enron's fall was shocking but not a complete surprise to former employees and other longtime observers of the company Lay founded through the merger of two gas pipeline concerns in 1985.
Under his leadership, that panel has done more than any other to lay out the dire implications of the national security spending reductions already in thepipeline, and those now in prospect.