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Falklands oil industry: Premier ratifies its commitment to develop Sea Lion
Britain's Premier Oil said it was seeking a partner for an oil development in the Falkland Islands in order to reduce its exposure to the 5.2 billion dollar project and make higher payouts to shareholders. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesso you have: premier + rockhopper + sea lion.
Feb 07th, 2014 - 11:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0premier: an insignificant oil company.
rockhopper: an even more insignificant exploration company.
sea lion: a tiny gas well in the middle of the sea.
and you islanders put all your expectations in this?
you are a joke.
#2
Feb 07th, 2014 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Wait 5 years and then comment.
With you, it has little to do with the oil or gas. You have a personal hatred of the Islanders which is obvious from your posts.
So anything that happens there must be belittled to fit your prejudices.
Has anyone said that there is an oil and gas bonanza in the area ?
Indications are that there are recoverable deposits there.
The amounts may not attract the large companies but there may be enough to warrant investment from a smaller group.
Coming from Argentina and calling anyone a joke is beyond laughable !!
Everything is insignificant
Feb 07th, 2014 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0To those who have nothing,
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“and you islanders put all your expectations in this?”
Feb 07th, 2014 - 12:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No we don't.
Even without oil we still have a very good GDP
Paul doesn't seem to know much about the oil/gas exploration business. Usually majors let the little guys find the oil then they buy the whole lot once its proved and pumping.
Feb 07th, 2014 - 12:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1
Feb 07th, 2014 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think the joke will be on you. Why are you sooooo jealous of a small company like Premier/ Rockhopper? You would be well advised to buy shares in the companies that WILL be drilling for oil in the FALKLANDS. I shall remind you in 2015 when the results of the drilling campaign has finished. Personally I can't wait.
I would not call the £ Billions that the Falkland Islanders will make out of this insignificant.
Feb 07th, 2014 - 02:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They'll build up a national wealth fund out of their oil which will guarantee that every Falkland Islander will be well cared for for thousands of years.
Who knows, they might even buy your country on the cheap when it collapses and ship the lot of you 'immigrants' back to Europe, so the Amerindians get their land back!
Is it not wholly embarrassing?
Feb 07th, 2014 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0For a backward gigantic high country like Argentina,
Scrambling and yearning for the tiny crumbs of those tiny islands,
That could fit in her back garden,
Pathetic at worse,
A laughing joke at best..lol
Poor CFK
It seems this unwelcome victory will come at any price,
Including her own sanity…lol.
@1 Yes, just a couple pissant little exploratory outfits. Poor third world Falklanders. And according to sloppy-drunk Suzi not even a major hotel (heck not even an Alamo Drafthosue). Pathetic, sad, impoverished. Maybe Jerry Lewis can have a telethon for them with all the pills, sleep deprivation and mental instability he can muster.
Feb 07th, 2014 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And yet they STILL want nothing to do with you with all you have to offer against their relative “poverty.” Gee Paul, what IS it with you that makes them want to be as far away from you as continental drift will allow?
gface.
Feb 07th, 2014 - 08:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the sentiment is shared here.
most of us want nothing to do with the islanders.
anyway, why 99 % of the news posted by this 5th class british newspaper are about argentina?
come come number ten
Feb 07th, 2014 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you don't have to stay on this great British site,..lol
@10 Then why are you on all the Falkland threads with your transparent concern trolling and sneering at how little they have but STILL want nothing to do with you. The Falklands and their attempts to make it big clearly bothers the hell out of you.
Feb 07th, 2014 - 08:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As for the “reciprocity” from the Brits here bashing Argentina problems like low hanging fruit, maybe if your various successive governments didn't use passive aggression towards the Islanders to distract their citizens from their failures maybe they'd, in turn, leave YOU alone and stop cashing in on the schadenfreude. If you REALLY think these few thousand folk don't matter to your fellow countrymen, why aren't you and your likeminded pals (presumably more than a “Group of 17”) finally hold your politicians' feet to the fire and tell them to stop ringing the Malvinas Bell for you to drool on command. Prove to them that it doesn't work. Oh yes. but it DOES work.. Every time. And you don't seem to want to do much about it.
Paul
Feb 07th, 2014 - 08:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sealion is a large oil discovery in the middle of the Sea. Most likely around 500-700 million barrels once fully appraised.
That would make about 200,000 barrels per islander.
That's more than 10x per capita the next highest in the world.
And it's all good quality, naturally flowing oil trading at about the value of Brent....not heavy oil, not shale oil.....easy peasy oil.
Sorry this is not what you want to here.
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Feb 07th, 2014 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0when you have a pathetic group of islanders, british wannabes, laughing at the misfortunes of the others, it is good to remind them they are just a pathetic group of islanders living in a poor islet with no natural resources, no hospital infrastructure, no schools or universities, no tourist atractions, bad genepool, etc.
maybe one day they learn to be more gracious and humble.
when you have a pathetic group of argies , cfk wannabes, laughing at the misfortunes of the others, it is good to remind them they are just a pathetic group of brain washed fools living in a poor country.
Feb 07th, 2014 - 08:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@14 You mean be humble and gracious to childish neocolonialist Junta-nostalgists who to this very day celebrate the holding of guns to their heads with a 2-peso coin (and don't say it's to “celebrate the forgotten conscripts of an embarrassing defeat” or similar crap since the message on the coin in clear in text and embossed art) and who still insist that their lives rightfully theirs to command like 21st century neo-nazis demanding that Poland and Denmark obey their every command by annexing them on constitutional paper, and applying [apparently unenforceable and unextraditable] domestic law on them.
Feb 07th, 2014 - 09:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My god, you guys really ARE tone deaf.
The islanders may not have much [today], but they have their freedom (the same freedom you tried to deny them in 1982 and, yes, *celebrate* trying to take from them in 1982 today in 2014). And you will never take that away from them no matter what your government tells you.
Maybe it is YOU who needs to be humble and gracious in the face of what your previous generation tried to do to the Islanders and a little less gracious and humble to the people who still play that card to cynically manipulate your fellow country men.
Paul
Feb 07th, 2014 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Gface it's the nail on the head.
You get very angry when you feel people “disrespect” your country. I unstandardised that.
The disrespect you fume at, amounts to a few words thrown on the Internet.
Now, imagine that disrespect amounted to an invasion.
Imagine being rounded up at gunpoint.
Imagine your children's schools being booby-trapped.
Imagine being used as a human shield.
Imagine minefields being indiscriminately planted around your home.
How angry would that “disrespect” make you?
Imagine if, instead of an apology for this disrespect...a nations government denies your existence, denies you basic human rights, seeks to subjugate you....and lies about you at any given opportunity.
How angry would that disrespect make you?
Instead of ranting and raving at the islanders, youd do better to understand they've got more to be angry about than you have.
#17
Feb 07th, 2014 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are wasting your time with this clown. His head has been so filled with hatred against the British, and by default the Falklands, that he cannot help his actions. No matter what you say, he does not want to know. It does not fit in with his indoctrination.
@14
Feb 07th, 2014 - 10:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“is good to remind them they are just a pathetic group of islanders living in a poor islet with no natural resources, no hospital infrastructure, no schools or universities, no tourist atractions, bad genepool, ”
This explains why with a few resources the Islanders are more educated per capita than Argentines (they go to UK universities, not the Universities in Argentina where graduation means learning to read and write (just). Also the Islanders with their small amount of resources are always in surplus whereas Argentina with massive resources is in debt and a huge economic disaster.
The islands have a very good hospital and excellent schools-there is no need to have a University (certainly not modelled on Argentina's which are the equivalent of a UK Primary school) when the Falkland Islands Government pay for their people to go to proper universities where a Dr has to pass a PHd before they can have that title, whereas a teaching assistant in Argentina can be a 'Doctor.'
A bad genepool eh? That's what makes them more financially successful per capital that the genius's that run your disaster zone of a country? A genepool that has South American DNA from 1833, and 1850 onward?
The lack of tourist attractions explains why they currently have a tourist ship around the Islands with more passengers than islanders? That's like Argentina having 60-100 million tourists every time a ship visits-good luck with that!
tourist attraction in the islets:
Feb 07th, 2014 - 11:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0a lot of smelly sheep, a lot of smelly penguins and a bunch of smelly islanders.
surely those poor tourists that go there once, don´t want to repeat the experience never in their lives.
@20. As usual, you have no knowledge of what you are writing about. I have met many, many tourists who come back to the Islands again and again to enjoy the unspoilt landscape and wildlife. In particular, many who make a short day visit off a cruise ship enjoy it so much that they subsequently come back for a longer, land-based visit.
Feb 07th, 2014 - 11:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 020
Feb 08th, 2014 - 12:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0If nobody can see the attraction then why did TMBOA go to so much trouble to block cruise ships from coming here last season? She's given up on that one this season because she realised it was hurting her own people.
The beautiful big Princess was in again today. Lovely day for the tourists walking around our streets. No burning tyres, no pot bashing and no armed hold-ups.
@20 paulcedron,
Feb 08th, 2014 - 06:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Of course we are smelly,
We don't bathe.
But our men like us this way.
What's your excuse for not bathing, paul?
ldiota
Joe
Feb 08th, 2014 - 08:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Are you trying to tell me that tourists will have electricity and be able to change currencies without hindrance?
@20
Feb 08th, 2014 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why is there currently a tourist ship with more passengers on board than there are Falkland Islanders, around the islands if there is nothing to see?
Tourists who visit Argentina clearly have a rubber fetish as they will be greeted with burning tyres, strikes, discontent etc-who wants to visit somewhere like Argentina with a permanent sad on?
#23
Feb 08th, 2014 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0PC has lost the plot. He is turning into Sussie. No sensible argument so just insult.
He knows his country is falling off the cliff so he kicks at everything around him.
I suppose his rightful feeling of inferiority does this to him.
22 Joe Bloggs
Feb 08th, 2014 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I can imagine that the wildlife and landscape of the Falklands would appeal to a LOT of people.
Lots of wildlife , big wide open spaces, few people...Yup the Falklands has a LOT to offer.
If they cant have there own way,
Feb 08th, 2014 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They rant and rave,
Throw the toys out of the pram,
And the world laughs,
Yet they understand nothing but indoctrination..
Paulcedron- Tourism- Then please explain how-come there were several hundred Argentine Tourists ashore here last Friday off a 2500 passenger ship and several hundred due again on Tuesday 11th on and 1800 passenger ship?
Feb 11th, 2014 - 02:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh and another one same day will have 450 passengers, And one with 120 on Yesterday - and several more in the next 7 days with about another 2000 in total.
Nobody wants to come here do they??
Funny fact that a ship that puts Stanley on its destination list attracts passengers a lot faster than one that only lists Argentine ports.
It's a fact that any cruise ship in South American seas would have to include the Falkland Islands on the itinerary or the tourists will book with another line.
Feb 11th, 2014 - 11:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0All too often the passengers that go ashore in Argentina get a nasty experience. They are either robbed or cheated or treated with contempt. They then pass on this information to others, who will refrain from spending time (and dollars) in Argentine ports. They save their money for the Uruguayan, Chilean or Falkland Island trips instead.
It's not just the fact that the tourists would feel safe in the Falkland Islands though. There is so much to see as well. The wild life, the marvellous scenery, the battlefields, the beautiful deserted beaches (those that the Argentines didn't leave mined!) and the friendly people.
Despite everything that TMBOA has done, cruise ships continue to visit the Islands and South American politicians visit to talk. The Falkland Islands will survive and thrive, but CFK will not.
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