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Argentine Foreign ministry says BP not interested in developing Falklands’ oil
British oil giant BP will not be involved in exploration or production activities in the Falkland Islands, according to the Argentine Foreign Affairs ministry which just a few days ago sent threatening letters to oil industry and financial corporations which could be working or assessing in the disputed South Atlantic waters. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesArgentine Foreign ministry also stated the Falkland island belongs to them lol
Apr 11th, 2012 - 12:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0BP sent a letter to the Argentine government stating that “it does not participate in hydrocarbons exploration activities in the region referred to in your (19 March 2012) notification, nor has it plans to do so in the future”
Apr 11th, 2012 - 01:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0I wonder why...
Marcos, Why do you always have to copy parts of an article???? most people who post on these forums have read the article you great tit!
Apr 11th, 2012 - 02:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is bleedin obvious why, and even if they were interested and had already made headway in the area, i dont thhe RG gov letter would have had any impact!
@2 - “I wonder why”
Apr 11th, 2012 - 02:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well, what company wants some 15 year-olds with assault rifles raiding their oil rig, yelling “Islas Malvinas” and “Jajajajaja”.
I'm actually pretty sad about this. BP could have had another spill and ruined Argentina's coastal tourism industry! That really would have been priceless. I can imagine the look on vagina-neck's face when an oil slicked toucan crashes through her window.
To be fair, she'd probably just dump the bird and the crude oil into a blender and then have it pumped into her face to stave off the scrotum-skin for a few more weeks. Meanwhile, this story shows the sheer pathetic desperation of the Argie government to turn every non-event into a scrap of good news
Apr 11th, 2012 - 04:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0And just what did you all expect from Argentina, a repeat performance of course.......for your viewing pleasure:
Apr 11th, 2012 - 05:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyPC0SD0PGw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTBAjfgHLyk&feature=relmfu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwWSN2pukk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvQw00SV-c
www.ripoffreport.com/government-worker/argentina-tourists-m/argentina-tourists-murdered-l-33f51.htm
www.ripoffreport.com/federal-government/cristina-kirchner/cristina-kirchner-cristina-kir-dc9b0.htm
Gracias Cristina y Nestor.......oh and thanks too Boudou!!
@2
Apr 11th, 2012 - 08:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0You wonder why eh?
Could be because BP never had any plans to work in the Falklands perhaps, you know, just like they stated in their letter.
#4 & #5 You people are sick. And obviously bitter about my Queen's latest great victory =)
Apr 11th, 2012 - 08:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0I have no plans for what to eat for dinner. Doesn't mean I ain't going to have any dinner ;-)
Apr 11th, 2012 - 08:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is hardly be a surprise given their involvement in PAE, but when KFC carries on attacking oil companies at the rate she is at the moment, who would rule anything out in the future? Once she nationalises PAE as well, I expect BP might come to a different view :-)
BP don't have any plans to do so now or in the future.......and do you honestly think they would tell you, even if they did have those plans?
Apr 11th, 2012 - 09:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0BP does not participate in hydrocarbons exploration activities in Argentina Malvinas islands, why ? It is obvious!!!!
Apr 11th, 2012 - 10:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0@11 p.a.,
Apr 11th, 2012 - 11:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh yes, like us they must be terrified of you macho-men! lol, ldiota.
haha must be the Kircher Youth paid them a visit. Love the way you trolls turn a non story into a victory. Goerbels would be proud.
Apr 11th, 2012 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Victory is yours
you should learn more insults in spanish, to diversify your insults vocabulary, Isolde. Idiota, its not fashion any more. There are more modern.
Apr 11th, 2012 - 12:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is quite funny. Look closely at what they're saying, or not saying.
Apr 11th, 2012 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentines take any statement to be all encompassing in support of their pretentions, when in actual fact the wording used here is very precise.
There's a whole world of difference between exploration activities and actual extraction. Watch that space.
15. You re absolutely right, it is very common for small o/g companies to bear the burden of EXPLORATION and once a field is established to farm it out to a big boy to develop. It's the development (extraction) that is the expensive part and most small companies can't do it on their own.
Apr 11th, 2012 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A Great Victory for Argentina, Preventing an oil company that had no interest what so ever and never have had of oil drilling off the falklands, well done they should make this day a national holiday of celebration for all Argentines to wallow in this fantastic victory,
Apr 11th, 2012 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0God bless turkey neck and all that sail in her.
Oh by the way, Best of British when it comes to bullying those oil companies that are committed 100% to Oil exploration and drilling and granted licenses by The Falkland Government.
@14 Could you list the 'fashionable' insulting words Argentines prefer to be called?
Apr 11th, 2012 - 02:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It has been announced by Tesco that they have no plans to drill for oil in Falklands waters.
Apr 11th, 2012 - 02:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Buenos Aires have announced a celebratory bank holiday, an early prisoner release amnesty and street parties to be held throughout the nation to celebrate and commemorate this great victory.
What would be much more significant, is if Argentine companies made an announcement that they plan to drill in Falklands Waters, now that would be funny to watch.
Apr 11th, 2012 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos- oh dear Marcos - you really are the biggest chump this site has ever known! Far bigger than sopme of the fanasyists that used to be here!
Apr 11th, 2012 - 03:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BP - have - to date - NEVE been directly interested in the Falklands area! That is a historical FACT - but clearly totally beyond yours and Timmerman,s brain cells!!
Now - IF - and we agree its only still an IF - there are further successful exploration drill my smaller companies - who knows what may change - neither you not I nor BP nor any other major know! It all depends on circumstances and what a company,s directors think is a good investment move.
Your thinking is about as irrational and irrelvant as a pollster who asks someone about an event 30 years ago when they were probbaly not even born, nor educated about!
I reckon some US company will end up extracting the black gold.
Apr 11th, 2012 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So where is this letter,
Apr 11th, 2012 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps one of these argie immortals could find us a copy,
[Just to make sure it is real]
Not that we are calling her a lie,.
It means that BP is busy elsewhere. Even so I would like to see Argentinian government try to sue a company through a non-Argentinian court. The claim that they have to the Falklands will then be exposed as baseless.
Apr 11th, 2012 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You will know when BP are going to get involved in the S Atlantic, as they will sell all assets in Argentina first (which they might do anyway of course).
Apr 11th, 2012 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Also depends on what you define as part of “BP”.
Congratulations Argentina, you've got a note from a company who wasn't interested in Falklands oil to admit it, good for you!
Apr 11th, 2012 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I suspect the 6 companies who went to Rockhopper looking for a deal in January are very happy with the news that BP isn't interested. Gives them a better chance at securing a deal
@8 - What great victory. Did she finally not get mistaken for a troll when she went to the local Arg-Mart?
Apr 11th, 2012 - 08:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What's the latest on Argentine legal action against companies involved with Falklands oil exploration? Does anyone know?
Apr 11th, 2012 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do apologise for my spelling! English Literature never was a strong point at school, and written in a hurry!
Apr 11th, 2012 - 08:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 029 Islander1
Apr 11th, 2012 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you have two optiones !!! go back to school and focus on grammar,ha,ha,ha!!
who cares
Apr 11th, 2012 - 09:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0as long as they unda stand you,
we do,
its the argies that have this problem not us,
and who cares what CFK thinks,
no one .
29 Islander1, Spelling is not the problem, your lack of historical knowledge and facts is.
Apr 11th, 2012 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 032
Apr 11th, 2012 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ah ah , tut tut ,
and who claims the british falklands, when she knows all to well she is wrong, and it is only a distraction .
for a british supporter, you are not always correct .
@14 malen,
Apr 12th, 2012 - 09:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0ldiota is quite adequate.
lt wasn't meant as an insult,
Just a fact.
As p.a. @11, IS an idiot.
@32 Marcos Alejandro,
After reading your posts, Marcos, l realise that you know nothing about history.
Most of what you have written about the Falkland lslands are lies that you learned at school.
My sympathies as learning lies at that young age will be hard for you to undo.
With a bit of hard work by you & some encouragement by us, you will be able to see light at the end of the tunnel.
Keep at it.♥
BP might decide to do things out there later on. I don't think any company would write a letter closing a door on such opportunities. Anybody thinking this is any kind of victory is whistling into the wind.
Apr 12th, 2012 - 10:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 32 Marcos Alejandro
Apr 12th, 2012 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0History is not a real argument here, the documents from the time still exist, the British can prove beyond any doubt their version of history is correct.
Argentina can not.
BP must have used the enclosed self addresses envelope, I can not see them paying for the cost of a stamp.
Apr 12th, 2012 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0she needs to show us the letter, or at least BP deny writing the leter.
Apr 12th, 2012 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 034 lsolde
Apr 12th, 2012 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry, stupid is an insult and not very adequate, I will not insult you and was so polite with you. I want an apology from you right now!! I really realise that you do not have any idea about Malvinas islands that are Argentina! you learn the lies of a pirate country brainwash you that the Malvinas Islands are uk!! liers!!!
34 lsolde We learn about Malvinas at a younger age because is part of our country.
Apr 12th, 2012 - 10:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Most of you learn about Malvinas when you moved there later in life.
Isolde if you want to be modern modern call him PAVOTE, better REPAVOTE
Apr 12th, 2012 - 11:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
teach me modern english insults, please......... to say to britishs next time
@30 puerto idiota,
Apr 13th, 2012 - 08:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0No l stand by what l said.
You are an idiot.
lts not an insult.
lts a fact.
l also realise that you know nothing about the Falklands.
But thats ok as you'll never come here anyway.
We don't need foolish malvinistas here.
So sorry to tell you but your country has lied to you.
@40Marcos,
You learn about OUR country at a young age?
Thats touching, Ahh♥
l'm honoured that you think about us.
But there's no need. We are quite happy in OUR land, we don't need you.
BTW-Where is this malvinas place you talk about?
ls it perhaps in the Pacific Ocean? l've never been able to find it on a map.
@41 malen,
Thats the happiest that l've seen you for a long time.
No sour miserable face?
l couldn't possibly call p.a/i. what you said. He/she/it might be a sensitive soul. ldiota is quite sufficient. Like yourself.
Finger or keyboard stuck again?
42 lsolde
Apr 13th, 2012 - 09:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0probably you will need a man as soon as possible lady!!!I could recommend someone in Puerto Argentino, he is latin ans so macho!!! Sorry!! you will need a glasses, my number was 39@ not 30 and my name is puerto argentino!! please take care!!ha,ha,ha! sorry!!
@43 puerto idiota,
Apr 13th, 2012 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No l had your name correct. ldiota.
My glasses fogged while thinking of you & l wrote 30 instead of 39,
How will you ever forgive me? Such a crime! Quelle horreur!
Don't try the sweet talk,
You still will NOT get the Falklands.
42 lsolde
Apr 13th, 2012 - 03:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't expect a Birtish tourist(squatter) in Argentina to know where Malvinas is.
That’s really odd that is,
Apr 13th, 2012 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0considering all argentine bread and born, don’t even know where these Malvinas are .
@45 Marcos Alejandro,
Apr 13th, 2012 - 09:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thats alright, Marcos, as l don't expect you to know anything.
And you constantly prove that you don't(know anything!).
btw- what country do the “Birtish” come from? Birtland, maybe?
Sorry teacher. Teacher?
Apr 13th, 2012 - 11:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 073 lsolde (#)
Jun 27th, 2011 - 05:49 am
Bravo, very good. You definately have talent
Que? D e f i n i t e l y
“Idiot-speak for ”definitely“. One of the most common moronic misspellings found on the internet.” :-)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=definately
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@40 Marcos Alejandro
Apr 14th, 2012 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So you are indoctrinated from an early age in what to believe.
I doubt they teach you anything that is true about the Islands or their history.
Whereas we make our own informed choice on the issue, free and able to check the facts.
49 Pugol-H
Apr 14th, 2012 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brit. nobody tells me what to read or believe.
http://www.britishreparations.org/commercial.php
we demand you read this blogg,
Apr 14th, 2012 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and belive what you wish,
@ 50 Marcos Alejandro,
Apr 14th, 2012 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do what you have been told Marcos. DO IT NOW! LOL♥
@ 48 Marcos,
You have a long selective memory.
Pity you do not research the TRUE history of the Falklands(NOT the Argentine one) & remember that.
We all make spelling mistakes, Marcos. l was being sarcastic!
lts allowed on here to be sarcastic to silly malvinistas. ha ha.
l don't do too badly considering English was not my first language & l couldn't speak it properly until l was about 5 or 6 yo.
Whats your excuse? As good as mine?
#52 “English was not my first language & l couldn't speak it properly until l was about 5 or 6 yo”
Apr 15th, 2012 - 12:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Interesting, I'd genuinely like to know more about your background. Hong Kong? How did you end up an islander???
52 lsolde Inglishh is not my native language as you can see.
Apr 15th, 2012 - 01:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Where did you learn the true history of that imaginary place called fakland?
In the jungle of New Guinea or ChrisR told you?
44 lsolde
Apr 15th, 2012 - 04:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0nice lady. You definately have a very good talent!!!and I have not yet your apology!! lady
@55 puerto something or other,
Apr 15th, 2012 - 08:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0l don't owe you anything.
You are the one who should apologise to mankind for being so stupid in believing the malvinista lies.
l never claimed to be a lady. l'm too earthy for that.lol
@53 B_K,
Obviously l am not going to tell you too much.
You have proved that you are a malvinista & there are many hostile ears listening.
Suffice to say that local people looked after me when l was little.
@54 Marcos Alejandro,
Very funny Marcos.
@50 Marcos Alejandro
Apr 15th, 2012 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Then why don’t you go and find out the truth for yourself, instead of posting irrevelent rubbish.
I have read the Observatorio Parlamentario – Cuestion Malvinas, and checked the historical references it quotes (if you agree they apply at all).
Not a word of truth in it, or in anything the Argentine government has to say on the matter.
When you look at the facts, not the fiction.
57 Pugol-H
Apr 15th, 2012 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I did, Malvinas is part of Argentina and South America.
The British Empire
“Three years later, the British did formally leave the islands and they passed into the Spanish Empire for the next forty years. This arrangement was formally recognised by the British in the 1790 Nootka Sound Convention by which Britain formally rejected any colonial ambitions in 'South America and the islands adjacent'. It also reflected a weakening of British power in the Western Hemisphere coming shortly after the embarrassing loss of the 13 colonies partly thanks to French and Spanish intervention.
The Spanish claim on the islands would falter with the South American Wars for Independence at the start of the nineteenth century. The Spanish removed their formal representative and settlers from the island from 1810 and completed it by 1811. The islands were left to their own fate for the next decade as sealing and whaling ships might call in from time to time to take advantage of the harbour and fresh water. It was not to be until 1820 that the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata would send a frigate to the islands in order to assert their control as part of the legacy of post-colonial Spanish claims to authority there. Buenos Aires would appoint their first governor in 1823 who tried to limit the whole-scale slaughter of seals which were in danger of being made extinct on the islands. A penal colony was also established on the island”
That's your version, Marcos.
Apr 15th, 2012 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now have you got the true one?
A Brit in Britain wrote that Isolde.
Apr 15th, 2012 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can you prove this,
Apr 15th, 2012 - 11:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Name
Rank
Serial number ,,please .
Who cares, Marcos?
Apr 16th, 2012 - 05:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0l don't believe anything that you say.
You're a malvinista.
malvinista=liar
#56 I'm not actually a “malvinista”, I just support my beautiful peace-loving Queen's call for negotiations rather than Cameron's stonewalling and oil-grabbing. Imagine if the Argentines had settled the Shetland Islands 150 years ago, would that now entitle them to the North Sea oil?! So theres nothing nationalistic about my views, I'm for equality between nations and internationalism. As for the “Kirchnerist” in my moniker, its just the Argentine for “Old Labour” imo =) So I'm sorry you won't say more on your background, it sounds a genuinely fascinating story and I for one would be happy to put politics aside for a moment and learn more about it...
Apr 16th, 2012 - 12:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 062 lsolde When you talk about your gold, are you talking about those 'Spice Gold highs” little bags flooding Malvinas?
Apr 16th, 2012 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not wonder...
@58 Marcos Alejandro
Apr 16th, 2012 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The British did leave the Islands but did not relinquish sovereignty, Du Jure from 1690, and De Facto from 1765. Both before Argentina existed or the Spanish ever tried claiming them.
The British have the prior claim, this is a fact.
With respect to the “Nootka Sound Convention”
a) This is an Anglo Spanish treaty, nothing to do with Argentina, signed before (once again) Argentina even existed. As such Argentina can claim nothing under this agreement.
Don’t bother with the inherited from Spain rubbish, you broke away from Spain by force of arms and Spain still exists as a country in its own right. Under these circumstances you can no more claim to have inherited agreements and rights from Spain than you can claim to have inherited Madrid or Gibraltar.
b) Just read what the Nootka Sound Convention says:
“Britain formally rejected any colonial ambitions in 'South America and the islands adjacent”
ADJACENT: the island of TDF is adjacent to S America, the Falklands are definitely not, not in any meaning of the word in English now or then.
The use of the word “adjacent” here clearly excludes the Falklands from the terms of this agreement.
With respect to the first Argintinian attempt to seize the Islands, I refer you to the Brit Gov letter to the UN.
“No civilian population was expelled from the Falkland Islands on 3 January 1833. An Argentine military garrison had been sent to the Falkland Islands three months earlier in an attempt to impose Argentine sovereignty over British sovereign territory. The United Kingdom immediately protested and later expelled the Argentine military garrison on 3 January 1833. The civilian population, who had previously sought and received British permission to reside on the Islands, were encouraged to remain. The majority voluntarily chose to do so.”
I’m afraid the Falklands are in the S Atlantic, which is and always has been British territory, nothing to do with Argentina or S America.
all bets were settled in 1850s was it not .
Apr 16th, 2012 - 09:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 065 Pugol-H
Apr 16th, 2012 - 11:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Malvinas is part of South America...and Argentina of course.
@67 Marcos Alejandro
Apr 17th, 2012 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Then I suggest we, agree to differ.
Meanwhile the Brits will keep control of the S. Atlantic/Antarctica, and of course the resources.
And you can have the airfix model .
Apr 17th, 2012 - 10:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sounds fair to me, briton.
Apr 18th, 2012 - 05:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0agreed
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