The Royal Navy Type 23 frigates currently on service, HMS Norfolk, HMS Marlborough and HMS Grafton will be joining the Chilean Navy between 2006 and 2008 in an operation involving 350 million US dollars, following a purchase agreement signed this month in London.
The French oil consortium Total began this week extracting natural gas from two offshore deposits, Carina and Aires, 60 miles from Tierra del Fuego in the South Atlantic with an estimated daily production of 8 million cubic metres in 2006.