Whether that place becomes ownership in the fullest sense is a decision we still have time to make. In the closing months of this year, TotalEnergies is expected to decide whether to build the Venus field. More than 11 billion barrels of oil in place have been identified off our coast. The windfall is not really a question of whether the money arrives, it is a question of whose balance sheet it lands on. – Jason Kasuto is managing director of Monasa Advisory & Associates, a Namibian transaction advisory firm working across capital markets, research and development finance.