OIL’S WILD FRONTIERS “The age of easy oil is over.” Once a mantra beloved of energy execs at countless industry conferences, that six-word sentence is the founding principle for a new breed of wildcatters who are prepared to skirt the geological and political edge in search of oil. Among the vanguard of companies striking out into disputed lands is none other than former BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward, whose Genel Energy is present in two of the most geologically promising—and politically fraught—parts of the world: Kurdistan and the self-declared state of Somaliland. As The Wall Street Journal’s Justin Scheck, Alexis Flynn and Idil Abshir report: Global wildcatters like Mr. Hayward are playing a growing role in the […]