After a promising offer for bids…nothing more has been heard from the Turkmen government or Chevron on the prospects for American oil companies to gain permission to drill on the Caspian Sea shelf…Human rights activists are concerned that with the growing potential for Western involvement in Turkmenistan's extraction industries, long-standing problems of oppression and human rights abuse in Turkmenistan could tend to be overshadowed...Global Exchange and Crude Accountability, international human rights groups working for social, economic and environmental justice and accountability from trans-national corporations, have expressed grave doubts as to how energy companies can expect to get truthful reporting from the highly-closed Turkmen system - and whether they can expect Turkmenistan to implement any corporate human rights policies in good faith...[T]he human rights community will likely be looking to Chevron to show leadership...in raising with their Turkmen counterparts the critical issues of basic human rights...