MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Falklands: Oil companies head for Stanley next May

THE next joint oil operators' meeting to be held in the Falklands is scheduled for the first week of May 2009.

All the licensees have agreed to be represented in the Falkland Islands for meetings with the government and other interest groups that week. At a meeting of the Mineral Resources Committee held last week, Director Phyl Rendell said representatives from the Health and Safety Executive, the government's consultants on offshore exploration, had been invited to attend to discuss safety matters related to suitable rigs for a drilling programme and to hold meetings with government departments with an interest in health and safety. Penguin News