Did you know?
You can earn activity points by filling your profile with information about yourself (what city you live in, your favorite team, blogs etc.)
Crowd funding sounds ideal here. Get about five partners who pony up $2 million each. Also, if you look at the drilling process in steps, maybe payments could be incremental, making it even easier to bear. Just for an example, every party agrees to the two million, with one quarter of it payable immediately to start work. (2.5 million total)