Byhappycoincidence, many of the most promising shale-gas deposits in Europe are in those countries most vexed by their dependence on imports of Russian gas, such as Poland, Hungary and Ukraine.
Last month he dispensed the man-of-the-match award at Sri Lanka's opening game of the cricket world cup, which took place in a newly built stadium in by happy coincidence his own constituency, Hambantota, in the south of the country.