That's a relief. Hopefully his removal will not undermine a solution to the oil geyser. Nevertheless, he was not removed because of his lack of area knowledge

That's a relief. Hopefully his removal will not undermine a solution to the oil geyser. Nevertheless, he was not removed because of his lack of area knowledge. (One wonders why he was selected in the first place, if his work wasn't relevant.) It appears that he was removed because he was holding the 'wrong' socio-political opinions. And that's unsettling.