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Argentina promotes oil and gas opportunities at the British-Argentine Chamber of Commerce in London
The Seminar “Argentina Oil & Gas 2013” organized by the British Argentine Chamber of Commerce (BACC) with the support of the Law Society and UK Trade and Investment Department took place last Thursday June 6 and highlighted Argentina’s century long experience in the hydrocarbons industry. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWe don't want nothing from you colonialist ingleesh pig dogs.... oh no wait, whats all this about ?
Jun 12th, 2013 - 08:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0An opportunity to invest millions in Argentina and have it stolen !ask the Spanish about Y.P.F.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 08:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0C.F.K. is like a child,she does not understand that actions have consequences !
I mean high risk hig reward but you've got to be slightly crazyto go for this scheme
Jun 12th, 2013 - 08:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0What a cheek... You would have to be a lunatic to invest in anything in Argentina. KFC and Gollum would steal it in a trice. By their actions over the FI and Repsol they have shot themselves in both feet. If they are self sufficient why come to Europe and especially London?
Jun 12th, 2013 - 09:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0There is a big difference between investing, and turning up for a freebee buffet lunch. LOL
Jun 12th, 2013 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.baccnetwork.com/xframework/files/entities/noticias/19/seminar-argentina-oil-and-gas-programme-2013.pdf
Apart from what has already been commented, this makes no sense because Argentina has threatened to take legal action against oil companies who participate in the Falklands exploration which, by their own claims is part of Argentina. So, by their own statement, the Argentine Government will take legal action against any oil company who operates in Argentine territory.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 10:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0At best, this is bizarre behaviour- At worst it is both barking and suicidal.
Lol - This clearly shows Argentine desperation to me. They can not get investors to invests so they come to London with there cap in hand, begging!
Jun 12th, 2013 - 10:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Where are those pesky trolls for their spin on this one? Seems they are always out of sync with their government. In fact wher ehave their been for the past week or two, their posts have near non existent.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 10:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0AHHHHHHHHH.....I know, they have their vests on patrolling prices in supermarkets!!!!! What is that vest reads? To protect the public?
lololololol
“non-conventional oil” - Please, please tell me that they aren't stupid enough to try to sell Kerogen (shale oil) to the UK (where there has been commercial levels of extraction since 1859).
Jun 12th, 2013 - 10:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0First item on programme agenda-
Jun 12th, 2013 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Argentina Oil & Gas Sector Situation + Unconventional Development Scenarios”
Is that a convoluted way of saying “ You invest + we expropriate.”
“highlighted Argentina’s century long experience in the hydrocarbons industry.” Yep, argieland has unparalleled experience in not being able to get the stuff out of the ground themselves. This is matched with their experience in getting other people to do the work. In an exceptional twist, they manage to get the people who do the work for them to “invest” much of their profits in argieland. Moving along to their other “capabilities”, their ability to refine the product is second. That's not a mistake. If you had an important asset like an oil refinery, wouldn't you protect it against such “problems” as fire and flooding? Incredible numbers of alarms, automatic fire-fighting systems and an on-site fire-fighting unit. Automatic seals. Then there's the taxes. And the argie government's propensity for seizing assets and entire companies. Truly awe-inspiring.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's not like businessmen can't see that the current gov't is losing control and the economy is spinning out of control.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 11:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0All they have to do is wait a little bit for the inevitable collapse and make a deal with the new gov't. The o/g isn't going anywhere.
So Kristina Chaves is promoting co-investment whilst busy trying to snaffle the lot for her failing economy and misguided national pride. That's a first in soliciting invested confidence!
Jun 12th, 2013 - 11:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0The only thing I would add to the above comments is should any member of 'John Q Public' have any shares in any company doing business with RGland I would suggest, very strongly that they get them out, unless of course they can really afford to lose them and are really in it for the 'possible high return'.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 11:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0You can Imagine my surprise when this morning I put £10 Petrol in my car, went to pay and came back to the car to find an Argentine syphoning it out again, I mean c'mon.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 12:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Guys, this is the “Happy Happy Good Investment Company” (HHGIC) we're talking about here! You can't lose!!
Jun 12th, 2013 - 03:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just sign here.
Hector Timerman is still promoting oil and gas opportunities:
Jun 12th, 2013 - 03:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'Argentina will take legal action at home and abroad against any companies involved in oil exploration off the Malvinas Islands. - 15th March 2012.
(He's not doing very well, is he?)
Or we could go back further to the 'Falkland Islands Declaration and Bilateral Agreements between Argentina and Britain, made between 1986 and 1991 which covered Flights, fisheries and oil and gas exploration which were all broken by Argentina.
Little wonder why Argentina is rated down in 102nd place by the World's Corruption Perception Index.
I laughed so had when I read the title that I daren't read the full article in case it makes me lose control of my bladder,
Jun 12th, 2013 - 04:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“highlighted Argentina’s century long experience in the hydrocarbons industry.........”
Jun 12th, 2013 - 04:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah and the fact that ANY company that even thinks about making a profit gets “Siezed” by those robbing b*st*rds!!!
I follow O/G quite a bit and for many years and I can't think of one time when a country has had to go out on roadshows to promote exploration and beg for investment. Small o/g compaies yes..but a country? Nope.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How long have they done this? 2 Yrs and they haven't found anyone?
What has changed in the last 2 yrs?
Nada
Argentina has not really had any exploration since the 90s.
Everyone knows this
Yet no one puts up the cash
Gee I wonder why
It never really dawned on me until today
It is really quite pathetic
TMBOA is clearly demented and probably sees this little farce as a way of enticing the Northern Europeans into her net.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0NOT FORGETTING:
“In his dissertation, Carlos Alfaro stressed the stability of the fiscal schemes in the Argentine provinces regarding royalties, the 130/2013 resolution to create a Hydrocarbons Fund, and the relaxation of natural gas prices, as important decisions and elements in the state which promote the oil private sector.”
HA, HA, HA, HA.
A good plot for a sitcom?
Jun 12th, 2013 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry Turnips……
Jun 12th, 2013 - 06:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It’s not Argentina……
It’s the English begging Argentina for a piece of the action…..
Through their British Argentine Chamber of Commerce at 65 Brook Street, London W1K 4AH, www.baccnetwork.com
Through their vice president; English Rt Hon Viscount Montgomery of Alamein CMG CBE….
Through their chairman; Dutch-Israeli Zeev Godik; Owner of the Gaucho chain of restaurants……
Through their directors; English Sir Michael Rake; Chairman of BT Group, deputy chairman of Barclays PLC………, English Alan Tabbush OBE……., English Dennis Taylor OBE………., English Peter Edbrooke…. etc… etc… etc….
Chuckle chuckle©
Apparently they may are entitled to apply for overseas aid
Jun 12th, 2013 - 06:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wouldn’t it be ironic for Cameron to give em some more of our money?
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Stink, that's all bullshit. We have to listen politely, then we snigger and go down the pub. No way KFC or Gollum will get a penny of investment from the UK. It would be like investing in the Kray twins with the same level of risk.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chuckle chuckle....
Man they are gonna need a wheel barrow to carry all that cash back from the Brits begging to get in on a piece of the action.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Souds like a load of argie gas,
Jun 12th, 2013 - 06:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and smelly at that lol.
TWIMC
Jun 12th, 2013 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It was YOUR “BRITISH Argentine Chamber of Commerce” at 65 Brook Street, London W1K 4AH, www.baccnetwork.com...........
Who “Invited and paid all the drinks” in London to get a chance to beg for a piece of the Oil Action in Argentina……
OUR “ARGENTINE British Chamber of Commerce at Av. Corrientes 457, 10° Piso C1043AAE - Buenos Aires http://www.ccab.com.ar/eng/index.php........
Is a totally different organization…….
Educate yourselves, Turnips.
@23 Twink
Jun 12th, 2013 - 07:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How about their Honorary President? What's her name?
Oh, it's Ambush Alicia. 'Nuff said.
Turnip at (29)
Jun 12th, 2013 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well done, Sherlock.........
The HONORARY PRESIDENT of the “BRITISH Argentine Chamber of Commerce” is, at any time, the Argentinean Ambassador in the UK.
Likewise......:
The HONORARY PRESIDENT of the ARGENTINE British Chamber of Commerce is, at any time, the British Ambassador in Argentina.
You win a plastic medal!
How screwed up must a country be when they can't get anyone to explore for oil.!
Jun 12th, 2013 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good gracious the Oil companies are used to dealing with African Dictators!
But maybe none of the African Dictators were dumb enough to bite the hand that feeds it....
British Argentine Chamber of Commerce.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0About has successful as the London Gas light Company.
TWIMC
Jun 12th, 2013 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The queue to get a bid of the Argentinean Shale Oil is getting longer…
Already drilling at Vaca Muerta…:
Apache (1,800,000 concessioned acres )
Exxon Mobile (1,200,000 concessionsed acres)
Americas Petrogas (1,000,000 concessionsed acres)
Total (800,000 concessionsed acres)
Shell (300,000 concessionsed acres)
Chevron (200,000 concessionsed acres)
Azabache (200,000 concessionsed acres)
Pemex to be the next big one to move in……….
Chuckle chuckle©
Yes Argentina appears to be bathing in black gold......all their troubles are over.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think....you like the vests on the la campora price patrollers?
Think, no-one trusts Rgs, no-one will drill, they will just steal the product. You are stuffed. Stick to corned beef... Cooked in the tin. Perfect product for the brainless brainwashed peanut brigade
Jun 12th, 2013 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And yet the O/G deficit SO FAR THIS YEAR IS U$1.6B and its been hot.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0other than what CFK is funneling out of the country
this is the other reason BCRA reserves are quickly heading towards Zero
23 Think
Jun 12th, 2013 - 10:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ah Think-me-not!! not using your sock puppets on this thread, you do surprise me...! still how is that protectionism / isolationism policy working out for you down there in ArgentinaLand???
I thought that the Argentines did want anything to do with the UK... and yet here we are ( again ).
I would go the the bathroom right now and wipe that egg off your face...
LOLz!!!
Funny went down a few companies on that list and only saw 5-10 PROJECTED to be drilled by 2012.
Jun 12th, 2013 - 10:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Someone might want to let them know the year is 1/2 over.
Wonder why they have been granted land concessions but they're idle?
Wonder why?
As someone who attended the other day, this was not a serious pitch for work. First of all, it was in the law society, not the kind of place you would use as a venue if you were trying to entice investment. Normally you would see this kind of road show in one of the Livery Companies or over in the Wharf, not the Law Society.
Jun 13th, 2013 - 08:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0”Argentina Oil & Gas Sector Situation + Unconventional Development Scenarios” This also got quite a few laughs come coffee time; people could see the obvious connotations. Personally I had a feeling that this was more of a presentation paying lip service to the possibility of investment rather than a proper pitch. Why? Well, the majority of the big names with the balance sheets to investment were conspicuous by their absence...
Oh for gosh sakes another train collision with deaths.
Jun 13th, 2013 - 12:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The apathy of the population is astounding.
I ask myself over and over is it laziness, stupidity or both?
#23 stink......and the president? Alica Castro.....Directors:
Jun 13th, 2013 - 06:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Zeev Godik - Chairman
Eduardo Rios Centeno - Vice Charman
Liz Merchant - Executive Director
Javier Alvarez - Overseas Director
Sir Michael Rake
Alan Tabbush OBE
Dennis Taylor OBE
Peter Edbrooke
Julio Harari
Mario Blejer
Members:
BBVA
Wines of Argentina
Alisa Trade
and many more http://www.baccnetwork.com/the-chamber/diretory-of-members.html
This is not a British only chamber
The reason your stink think is your head is up your asshole too much.
(39) Welsh Wizard
Jun 13th, 2013 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you very much for your first hand account of what, in your own words ”was not a serious pitch for work” organized in London by private Anglo-Argentinean economical interests worried about the biiiiig cake they are missing….
Of course it “wasn’t a serious pitch for work” in London!
No official Argentinean interest, whatsoever.
Get the message?
By the way..... Anybody wants to know the size of the cake?..:
US Energy Information Administration
Release date: June 10, 2013
Technically Recoverable Shale Oil and Shale Gas Resources: An Assessment of 137 Shale Formations in 41 Countries Outside the United States
http://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/worldshalegas/
”Top 10 countries with technically recoverable shale gas resources….:
1) China; 1,115 trillion cubic feet
2) Argentina; 802 trillion cubic feet
3) Algeria; 707 trillion cubic feet
4) US; 665 trillion cubic feet
Etc.
Etc…
Etc……
Top 10 countries with technically recoverable shale oil resources…:
1) Russia; 77 billion barrels
2) US; 58 billion barrels
3) China; 32 billion barrels
4) Argentina; 27 billion barrels
Etc.
Etc…
Etc……”
Weep gently, Goddams….
http://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/worldshalegas/
Guess which three of the four can get at the technically recoverable deposits, without any help?
Jun 13th, 2013 - 08:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Excuse me while I weep gently with laughter..............
Oh man.......stupid supports positions with utube never ends. I suppose when that's all one can find.
Jun 13th, 2013 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can anyone....I mean ANYONE help me here.
How much oil is being pumped out of Argentina's shale formations? I must be misinformed because I thought it was.....ZERO!
@42 I Don't Think, aka The Carrot in Chief, aka The Biggest Liar On MP
Jun 13th, 2013 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Get back Loretta (it's SO you and you DO deserve it):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hRVu-T73Zo
Just see WHAT Loretta thought she was, I Think it applies to Think!
Being recoverable and getting recovered are two very different things.
Jun 13th, 2013 - 10:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My bet is the La Campora supporters will be long dead before they see any benefit from the shale.
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