The news came yesterday that an international court ruled in Chevron´s favor against Ecuador:
http://www.chevron.com/news/press/release/?id=2010-03-30
The court found Chevron to be the victim.
For some reason few people are discussing this ruling online, perhaps because they don´t want politically-incorrect postings to haunt them later.
Ecuadorians seem upset about the ruling. I think they will be more hostile towards foreign companies in the extraction business because of this ruling.