It's an iffy organisation promoting oil exploration in Africa, I'd wager it won't be renewed ( or even completed ) however that doesn't mean that we're not under performing in that area, as we definitely are
Dunno if they're iffy, it's a massive oil company backing it. The money is literally like spare change to them.
But as you said it begs the question why we can't sniff out a better deal for ourselves. Villa getting almost twice as much as we are is scandalous.