After a run of days of oil industry wheeling and dealing which have left the EV team breathless, Allister battled through the breaking news that CHC is swooping in to buy the oil and gas helicopter business of rival operator Babcock.
The team then tried to make sense of further lashings of M&A activity, some in the increasingly hot North Sea, and some in North Africa.
And Ed went in to bat on news of protests which erupted in Senegal as a leading opposition politician faces charges of sexual assault. Ed considers what this means for Australian firm FAR and its effort to sell its stakes in a key project.