MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Falklands' welcomes rig-contract which marks beginning of oil drilling season in first quarter of 2015
The Falkland Islands Government welcomed the announcement on Thursday morning that a drilling rig has been contracted by a consortium of licensees for a new six-well program of offshore exploration and appraisal work commencing in early 2015. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWhich will the Malvinistas go for?
Jun 04th, 2014 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There IS no oil
or
It's OUR oil you thieving pirates.
Keep up the good work Stephen. I like your cool-headed approach to it all.
All very promising but of course there are still no certainties.
Steady progress. As planned. As expected.
Jun 04th, 2014 - 09:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All is well.
As expected.
TWIMC
Jun 04th, 2014 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There IS no commercial oil, you thieving pirates.
and
It's OUR non commercial oil, you thieving squatters.
PS...:
Somebody tell MercoPress (and Bog-Monster) that it's wednesday today...
@3
Jun 04th, 2014 - 10:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#cough# Sea Lion.
...“thieving pirates”...“thieving squatters”... “usurpers”... “untermensch”... “sepoys”...arhh the language of the resigned, defeated and above all the impotent: says everything about you people. Perhaps the generation after the next may be able to move on....
Think, For my failing memory please remind me what makes me a “squatter” - I am 5th generation and there now 7 generations of my family living in the Islands - arrived peacefully and even in the few years before the original family arrived NOBODY-civilian - was forcibly evicted from the Islands.
Jun 04th, 2014 - 11:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My ancestors paid for the land they subsequently developed and farmed.
PS- If -and it is still a bit of an if I accept - Premier announce start date in 2015 for SeaLion development and extraction - you will have to retract the word “non-commercial” wont you?
More miserable and bitter with every post.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 12:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0YPF is quickly running out of cash
and
nobody wants to buy their bonds EVEN AT 26%!!!!
Now what?
Still got everything turned upside down Think?
Jun 05th, 2014 - 12:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0If it's not commercial, why are the investors spending their money?
If it's yours why haven't you taken your case to the ICJ ?
Still acting like a 1st generation Argie Think? More Arg than Arg?
Still not thinking, Think.
Argentina has no cliam. Never had :-)
3 Think
Jun 05th, 2014 - 03:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Bog Monster? Oh yes I remember his own written qualifications
Occupation: Dust extraction
Interests: Bombing around.
(5) Islander1
Jun 05th, 2014 - 03:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0For your failing memory..., it’s your staunch allegiance to an old Colonial Power that makes you a “Colonial Squatter”
Same Colonial Power that treated five of your family’s generations like Shiat, assuming, of course, that your kin weren’t members of the tiny local English oligarchy…
Interesting your revisionist Kelper focus on that…: “Nobody CIVILIAN being forcibly evicted from them Islands in 1833”… version of history...
For my failing memory please remind me…. what grade did Lieutenant Moody had in 1843 and which Regiment did his invading Colonial Troops belonged to…?
Yuppppp…. Same troops you, by your own recollection, seem to be a direct descendant from…
(7) Mr. Lorton
You say…:
”Argentina has no cliam... Never had :-)”
I say…:
Certainly not…! We never had such thing…!
(BTW, what’s a ”cliam”…? A new form of VD from Pattaya?... :-)
(8) Marcos Alejandro
Hijitus queridus...
That's him alright...
Long time no hear, by the way!
Desde los penales del Azteca ;-))))))
@3. Think. Any oil found around the Falkland Islands belongs to the self-governing Falkland Islands. The ICJ has determined (Gulf of Maine case) that territorial waters awarded under the terms of UNCLOS can not be delimited unilaterally. The only legal option open to Argentina is to take their case to the ICJ.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 03:53 am - Link - Report abuse 09 Think
Jun 05th, 2014 - 03:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0We a lost a “friendly” no “la categoria” where's Ramón Ángel ? :-))
Funny Think - but you recognised a typo. And I left Pattay a long time ago - as usual, you are behind the times. Comes of being ancient - explaines the (non) thinking too :-)
Jun 05th, 2014 - 05:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hmmm. I reckon I'll be commuting to the Falklands on a monthly basis in the not very distant future.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 06:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Development, development.....
Good news. Was hoping for back end of 2014, but still good news.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 06:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0As I said last year THINK time to buy shares in the FALKLAND OILIES, don't you THINK? As one of your compatriates said they are cheap at the moment. Incidently the oilies have stated that first oil 2019 ( if memeory serves me correctly ) Lots of work to do before first oil, the contract to build the TLP is not signed yet as the oilies are sorcing at the moment. Can't wait until Q2 2015 to see some boots on the ground in the FALKLANDS
Jun 05th, 2014 - 07:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Think/ Marcos, impotence personified… Bahahahaha juuuup!
Jun 05th, 2014 - 07:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0You've lost your fire Think.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 09:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0ls that the best that you can do?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, laughing at the impotent hulk that you have become, Think.
Chubut squatter.
“Interesting your revisionist Kelper focus on that…: “Nobody CIVILIAN being forcibly evicted from them Islands in 1833”… version of history...”
Jun 05th, 2014 - 09:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Also known as the truth.
It was interesting talking with the specialists who were down from Premier and Bedrock last Thursday when this was announced. I love hearing their logistical planning brainstorming processes. High levels of investment, potentially huge returns but very high risk. Expert problem solvers.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 11:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Let's wait and see. Should know sometime next year.
Think - Well actually my dream is one of a small Independent Falklands, member of the British Commonwealth,like a mini NZ or Canada - so sorry you find that a bit 19th century Colonialist?
Jun 05th, 2014 - 11:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0But- as we both know their is one Country 350miles west of me with old fashioned 19th century Colonial ambitions of enforcing its rule over a population who do not want it - that makes my dream what it is- just a dream.
So for the time being I am happy with internally self governing Islands where I can live quietly in peace and in the full knowledge that every cent of economic development belongs to MY Islands - not to anyone else.
As for the civilian bit of 1833 - we both know that the only people ordered out then were the group of Buenos Aires militia and their families who had been in the Islands for a few MONTHS - they were not settlers by any imagination.
Gov. Moody? - civilian settlers then started to arrive.so augment the settlers who had stayed on from 1833. Only “military” I am aware of was the Gov,s guard - a group of retired military Chelsea pensioners - of various regimental origens no doubt.
Could you describe how generations of us were allegedly treated like “shiate” as you claim? OK life all over the world- Argentina included was different in those days and the niceties of 21st century human rights generally did not exist- nor in your land as well - at least we were not hounded off the land and butchered!
Thought you would have remembered the old one about people in glass houses throwing stones?
Wow, what's rattled Think lately?
Jun 05th, 2014 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0If indeed the oil belongs to Argentina or CFK back pocket,
Jun 05th, 2014 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0all they have to do is come and claim it. lol
@ 21 Anglotino
Jun 05th, 2014 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Wow, what's rattled Think lately?”
The onset of senile dementia I would imagine, but it's very difficult to tell with all his pre-existing conditions.
Getting pissed every night doesn't help minimise the effects either, but he won't be able to remember what has happened in the recent past, that's for sure.
21. He thought when they stole YPF other o/g exploration companies would come running and be throwing money into Arg.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They're not
and YPF is out of money and can't float bonds. ( sounds like Aerolineas to me)
All that unprofitable oil just a little too far underground to do anybody any good in the short term
too bad so sad
all this noise for a pair of oil wells with no commercial oil...
Jun 05th, 2014 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but what can you expect from 4th class companies like premier (?) and noble (??).
this fatty guy luxton should dedicate to lose some fat instead of wasting time with this joke.
btw, why all the islanders are fat?
is it something genetic or is the low quality food they eat?
No fat people in our house.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Our neighbours are not fat either.
Wonder where paullie-boy gets his information from.
Has anyone look at Maximo recently?
Jun 05th, 2014 - 12:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0where did i get the information from?
Jun 05th, 2014 - 12:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0from british newspapers.
“British population is getting too fat for the planet”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/9338023/British-population-is-getting-too-fat-for-the-planet.html
“British women are the fattest in Europe with a QUARTER so overweight their health's at risk”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/9338023/British-population-is-getting-too-fat-for-the-planet.html
“Why are British girls so fat?”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/9338023/British-population-is-getting-too-fat-for-the-planet.html
you must be the exception of the rule, isolde
20 Islander1
Jun 05th, 2014 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say...:
“As we both know their is one Country 350miles west of me....”
I say...:
As you perfectly know, there is a Country 192 miles west of you...
192 miles...
(25) paulcedron
It's not the quality of their food intake... It's the quantity...
(26) lsolde, dahling...
You sweet little twister of truths...
@26
Jun 05th, 2014 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Information? I think you are giving Paul entirely too much credit, he's the kind of person that thinks himself an expert on African wildlife because he saw a zebra on telly once.
Now, now... my dear squatting Kelpers, Kelperettes, Poms & Pomettes....
Jun 05th, 2014 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One thing is trying to twist the historic and geographical reality of them Islands to keep your allegiance to Ye Ol' Colonial Power...
Another is closing your eyes to the blubber epidemy taking place, as we speak, in Malvinas...
@Think
Jun 05th, 2014 - 02:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You can say what you like and you can believe what you like. It really doesn't change anything. The Falklands will remain in the hands of the people who call it their home through self-determination (prove to me with actual evidence that this right has been snatched from Falkland Islanders).
You can be as condescending and patronising as you wish to try and prove your beliefs, but it leads to absolutely nothing. I will continue to live, work and vote in Stanley, Falkland Islands and will continue to call it my home, and you will continue to sit wherever you are in the world and regularly spew out your bile on internet forums. Nothing will change as all the power sits with me and my fellow islanders. No matter what you or your Government says. Nothing will change.
But I will enjoy the rest of my life reading your same bile (well until you give up or perish).
paulcedron
Jun 05th, 2014 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina - the country with the highest incidence of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists in the world! Does this mean that ALL Argentines are nut cases?
TWIMC
Jun 05th, 2014 - 03:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just checked the influence of this article’s “Great News” on today’s share prices of the four Engrish Oil Companies still involved in this latest Mississippi Investment Bubble; the Malvinas Pirate Oil Adventure Scam… In alphabetical order…:
1) ARGOS RESOURCES LIMITED ( Aka: Arghhh….): -0.81%
2) BORDERS & SOUTHERN PETROLEUM ( Aka: Bull & Shiat….): -3.03%
3) DESIRE PETROLEUM (Aka: Despire): Oooops, defunct.
4) FALKLAND OIL AND GAS LIMITED ( Aka: Gaaaaaas….): -0.94
5) ROCKHOPPER EXPLORATION ( Aka: Rockflopper…): -2.08%
”Great News” indeed…
Fill your boots…
:-)))
Aaah Think is back on the whole colony kick again. If only people would submit to being ruled by another country instead of freely giving their allegiance to their own country.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 03:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why it reminds me of a conversation I had with a severely deficient poster by the name of Doveoverdover. About the term colony.
So are they still testing and searching for oil? Seems the answer is yes. Surprisingly some of these companies think long term. Hardly surprising that Think has trouble understanding that. He has learnt during his life to think only short term.
Usually the time between financial crises in his country.
Any comment on why YPF can't sell bonds even at a 26% interest rate?
Jun 05th, 2014 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Any comment of what will happen when they run out of money?
Think- Ok give you that yes 192 miles if you say , extreme uninhabited rock outcrop to uninhabited rock outcrop/point! I use the more general land mass distances.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Note you have not commented on any other point so I take it my case rests.
Paulcedron- I think you will find populations becoming more obese is a worldwide thing. We have a good diet here - plenty of healthy foods - even some healthy ones from Argentina as times - and obese making ones like CocaCola!
(37) Islander1
Jun 05th, 2014 - 04:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say...:
“Ok give you that yes 192 miles if you say , extreme uninhabited rock outcrop to uninhabited rock outcrop/point! I use the more general land mass distances.”
I say...:
Are you perchance calling beautiful Gran Malvina an “Extreme Uninhabited Rock Outcrop”.... you Puerto Estanley city slicker?
And what the heck are “ More General Land Mass Distances”?...
A Kelper Dish?
And..., about you: “Taking It That Your Case Rests”...
Remember, we Argies are like Chuck Norris...
We don't rest...
We wait...
;-)
Think
Jun 05th, 2014 - 05:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You forgot the other companies involved in the Falklands, Premier oil, Noble Oil and EDF Edison....you know, the multi-billion dollar companies who now control the majority of the licences, and who have already committed billions more dollars.
Seems, hahahahahah, you ridiculous threats haven't worried them, nor your yet more pitiful claims of ownership.
Just once more for my amusement....according to your “National Archives”...how many were “evicted” in 1833.
Of those “evicted” (as opposed to the handful who chose to leave) what was the longest amount of time any had spent on the islands?
Does anyone seriously think that the 1833 (non-)debate has any relevance to the current situation? I'm more interested in the 21st century.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I see our inflation figures have just been published: 1.6% PA.
I guess it's so low because like Paulcedron said: we have no industry.
Chuckle chuckle
“..., the multi-billion dollar companies”
Jun 05th, 2014 - 05:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0multi billion dollar companies?
premier and noble?
they are nonexistent for oil industry.
nobody takes them in account or makes a contract with them.
well, nobody except the naive islanders.
When a country ten times your size, is jealous and envies of a tiny outlet, then something very badly is wrong with that country,
Jun 05th, 2014 - 05:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but when Argentina is run incompetently and vastly corrupt, what does one expect..lol
@34
Jun 05th, 2014 - 05:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Never mind the share price of today, thats the trouble with you LATAMS you only see short term. I bet in Q4 2015 the share prices you mentioned will be much higher than now.
anyway, i think the big problem here is not the oil but the overweight of the islanders.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the fat guy of the pic is the prime example.
if you, fatty islanders, continue gaining weight, the little islets will collapse before they drill the first rock
The Malvinistas say:
Jun 05th, 2014 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we're pirates
there's no oil
it's their oil
we have no CT scanners
we're fat
we shag sheep
our islands are barren rocks
1833 or something
our houses are sheds
that they've convinced every 3rd world rogue State in the word to say Malvinas
we have no shopping malls
etc.
So therefore, they say, the islands are theirs.
I say:
Do something about it instead of moaning all the time. How about the ICJ?
Chuckle chuckle
dont get mad ordinary joe.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it is just a bit of rant.
and add to that list that you lot have no sense of humour
1833
Jun 05th, 2014 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0non existent..
For those of you without a subscription…, hereby some pearls from today’s article on The Times (of London), you know…., that Commie Argie-Loving newspaper…:
Jun 05th, 2014 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”Having spent years and hundreds of millions of pounds drilling dozens of wells and making only one commercial discovery, which is now in doubt, oil explorers are returning to the Falklands for what could be the last roll of the dice.
Tim Bushell, chief executive of FOGL, said: “We are trying to have another go at it. The whole future of the company is riding on this. It’s a lot [of wells] for a small company.”
He promised that the drilling programme, the first in the Falklands since a string of dry holes were drilled in 2012, would “create some excitement in the share price”. Muted investor reaction suggested otherwise.
There has been a sea change in the City’s attitude since Rockhopper discovered Sea Lion, the only commercial Falklands prospect, with 300 million barrels of oil, four years ago.
Impatient investors have been disappointed with a failure to follow it up with more exploration success and are sceptical about lengthy wildcat drilling programmes, particularly somewhere as far-flung as the Falklands.
Malcolm Graham-Wood, an oil consultant, said: “The Falklands have disappointed. Sea Lion is the only substantial field which has been discovered so far.
Unless more oil is found, Premier Oil could shelve the $5 billion development of Sea Lion, which would produce about 100,000 barrels by the end of the decade.
Shareholders are concerned whether Premier can handle the complexity amid rising costs, particularly given its poor track record on delivering other projects.
Brendan Warn, a BMO Capital Markets analyst, said: “If Premier Oil is really going to talk seriously about developing Sea Lion, they need to find more oil. Premier Oil needs to be convinced that this is a worthwhile project for them.”
(Continues...)
I have a sense of humour Paul; you are hilarious. You don't think for a moment I care what you think do you?
Jun 05th, 2014 - 06:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0PMSL
ICJ mate, ICJ.
Chuckle chuckle
Thanks for the opening Joe...
Jun 05th, 2014 - 06:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Conyinues from (49)...:
....He added: “There is less appetite in the market for these big complex projects now. Premier has had a lot of delays in other projects. Everyone’s confidence in their ability to deliver has been well and truly bashed in the last couple of years.”
Premier Oil took a 60 per cent stake in Sea Lion in a $1 billion deal in 2012. Analysts question whether it was too generous, and the company is looking for a partner to share costs and risks.
At least Rockhopper and FOGL can afford a drilling campaign. Analysts expect Borders & Southern, a fellow Falklands explorer, to run out of cash this year unless it can find a partner, which they believe is unlikely.
While Rockhopper is diversifying after snapping up Mediterranean Oil & Gas, it is Falklands or bust for FOGL.
Mr Bushell added: “If all the wells were completely bone dry then clearly we would not do any more exploration.”
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/naturalresources/article4109608.ece
50 think
Jun 05th, 2014 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0good article.
thanks for sharing
My pleasure
Jun 05th, 2014 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0;-)
52. And yet the amount of U$ COMMITTED to Falklands o/g exploration is HUGE compared to ALL OF ARGENTINA.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 08:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Silly ol' fool
YPF can't even float local bonds now
Rut Ro
Far more money committed to this oil exploration than developing the already known Dead Cow, or should that be Horse.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commercial oil or not the island economy will get a big boost and deep water harbour out of it.
@ Think
Never mind, you will just have to content yourself with the land and resources you Créole Planters have already robbed from the native S. Americans, that you so gaily annihilated, colonial style.
@48
Jun 05th, 2014 - 08:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Where do you get the figure of dozens of wells from. For your information a dozen in the english language is 12, I don't know what it is in Argentina ( I know that they exaggerate ) but they drilled nowhere near that number. Matbe they drilled about 10, not even a dozen.
@ 55 golfcronie
Jun 05th, 2014 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“english language is 12, I don't know what it is in Argentina”
Wait for it: DOCENA! :o)
Paulcedron - you really area extremist thicko!! So nobody other than the Falklands does business with Noble and Premier? - Look around the world and list the areas and countries where they work thicko! Then come back on here and admit you got it wring.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 11:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think - you are quite correct 2015 -16 drilling will be make it or bust fro the likes of FOGL and all the other small guys - it,s life(or death)- the way the industry works!
And yes Premier may or may not go ahead with Sealion development
2016 - or may leave it a few years and review - their commercial decision to make.
As for only one field located in 2012 - correct - but look at the bigger pic - how many wells drilled - how many commercial finds - and compare that with other new areas. A lot more than one drill hit oil in 2012 - RKH drilled quite a few more to get the size of sealion estimated and I think they all hit oil as well.
Not quite so WildCat these days - the locations for drilling have had extensive 2D and more recently 3D and a lot of that with the world,s most advanced seismic vessel. OK you still never know until the bit goes down - but the odds are a bit netter these days to 20-30 years ago!
And if there is none and Sealion is not developed - so what - Falklands Govt has not and will not be spending money it does not have. Financial reserves are record high - over 2.5 times the total annual budget spend and fiscal surplus for this year again - despite to drilling operations in last 12 month.
Yes we hope it does happen - would be nice! - BUT - we can survive perfectly well without it!
Certainly Premier and Noble are optimistic - otherwise why invest those hundreds of millions to do it?
So no answer then “think”
Jun 05th, 2014 - 11:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Come on its a simple enough question in two parts, which you previously answered
1a) how many “Argentines” were “evicted” in 1833 according to your “national archives”
1b) of those “evicted” (as opposed to the handful who chose to leave) what was the longest period of time any had spent on the islands.
P.s.
I will give you a clue...the answer to 1a) is fewer than 60....and the answer to 1b) is less than 2 months.
The sovereignty claim is ridiculous.
Let's say, for example...if James Cook, upon landing in Botany Bay had come across 50 Dutch sailors...who'd arrived in Australia before him...and Cook had evicted them....would the correct course of action now in 2014...be:
1) hand over Australian sovereignty to Holland?
2) force British sovereignty on Australia
3) allow the people of Australia to chose whatever sovereignty suits them, up to and including the head of state being “Her Brittanic Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II” from ye olde Colonial Master.
How scared you are of democracy in the rest of the Commonwealth...but how brave you are when it's only 3000 islanders.
You are wak as piss Think, and twice as cowardly.
Think accusing people of twisting the facts !! Now that is funny.
Jun 06th, 2014 - 01:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina's claim is entirely spurious and both history and international law favour the British. I see now that even the Argie loving South Atlantic Council has recognised that the Islanders hold the veto to any decision on their future as a result of the development of self-determination.
Argentina's claim is doomed. In fact it's been going downhill since 1964.
As for the oil - this world is about business. It'll either flow or not. Either way it'll make not an ounce of difference to the Islanders right to determine their own futures.
And that's as it should be.
38 Thinkedover
Jun 06th, 2014 - 01:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0“We don't rest...
We wait... ”
sure you wait, what else can you do ?
:-D
Good one “Think”
Jun 06th, 2014 - 02:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Times
June 5 2014
“Having spent years and hundreds of millions of pounds drilling dozens of wells and making only one commercial discovery, which is now in doubt, oil explorers are returning to the Falklands for what could be the last roll of the dice”
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/naturalresources/article4109608.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2014_06_05
As fruitless as all the years and pesos spent by the Argentinean government on trying to annex the Falkland Islands.
Jun 06th, 2014 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0With nothing to show.
Which is more futile?
Argentina's attempts to annex after 70 years...... or.....
drilling for oil?
I know which one has been going on longer with nothing to show for it.
This time FOGL has extensive and detailed 2g and 3g surveys to help target the most promising drill locations. Another 9 months isn't long to wait and the potential remains absolutely massive.
Jun 06th, 2014 - 06:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0And wait, and wait, and wait and nobody cares what you are waiting for.
Jun 06th, 2014 - 07:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0That's not strictly true, why else are you commenting?
Jun 06th, 2014 - 08:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lol.
@38Think,
Jun 06th, 2014 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0You should rest because you will be waiting forever.
65 Reality Check
Jun 06th, 2014 - 09:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not sure who your comment was directed towards but I don't post on here because I care what Malvinistas think. I post on here to annoy them. What they think about that I couldn't give a toss.
o Article 73 of the UN Charter (Argentina ratified in 1945) - Declaration regarding non-self-governing territories states, 'interests of the inhabitants are paramount.'
Jun 06th, 2014 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 04 UN ICJ Advisory Opinions and 1 ICJ Judgment all state or confirm 'Furthermore, the subsequent development of international law in regard to non-self-governing territories, as enshrined by the Charter of the United Nations, made the principle of self-determination applicable to ALL of them.'
There are no exceptions to the above. In this respect the UN General Assembly voted on 17th October 2008 and a motion to have conditions placed on the right to self-determination was defeated by 73 votes to 54
, the motion was raised by Argentina and Spain, and subsequently lost..lol
.
TWIMC
Jun 06th, 2014 - 10:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just checked (((again))) the share prices of them four Engrish Oil Companies still involved in this latest “Mississippi Investment Bubble”; the Malvinas Pirate Oil Adventure Scam…
In inverse alphabetical order…:
1) ROCKHOPPER EXPLORATION ( Aka: Rockflopper…): -1.58%
2) FALKLAND OIL AND GAS LIMITED ( Aka: Gaaaaaas….): -2.83%
3) DESIRE PETROLEUM (Aka: Despire): Still defunct.
4) BORDERS & SOUTHERN PETROLEUM ( Aka: Bull & Shiat….): -1.01%
5) ARGOS RESOURCES LIMITED ( Aka: Arghhh….): +1.63%
Woooow, Argos, (the only Engrish Company NOT drilling) up+1.63%!!!
Fill your boots lassies & lads…
:-)))
That's it?
Jun 07th, 2014 - 12:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0That is what Think has been reduced to?
A ticker tape!
(70) Anglolatino, my dear Ozzie Turnip...
Jun 07th, 2014 - 06:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0I take it you meant a Stock Ticker...
Anyway, thanks for the compliment...!
Them Stock Tickers made Thomas Alva the capital to invent the incandescent light bulb...
Them Stock Tickers were the utmost status symbol for over 100 years...
Them Stock Tickers were the direct precursors of the Internet...
Not such a bad things them Good Ol' Stock Tickers...;-)))
No Think I meant TICKER TAPE.
Jun 07th, 2014 - 10:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0That was what the stock price was printed on by the STOCK TICKER.
In other words, the TICKER TAPE contained the stock price.... just as your posts contain stock prices.
You are nothing more than TICKER TAPE, a medium that people can read a stock price from.
TICKER TAPE became obsolete in the 1960s. About the same time as you I would estimate.
As the Falkland Islands are still a prosperous BOT with no interest or likelihood of ever becoming part of Argentina and as companies are still looking for oil, you are currently bereft of saying anything new or original.
So you fall back on mimicing technology that has been obsolete for 50 years. If you feel that that was a compliment.... that only reflects badly on you.
Wow you always FAIL when you try and take me on..... some things are not obsolete it would seem. Run along now.... until you next post a stock price update I guess.
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(72) Anglolatino, my dearest Ozzie Turnip.
Jun 07th, 2014 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Stock tickers and ticker tape are, by no means, obsolete!
Today, they are “Classics”... I would even dare to say... “Cult”.
Though, at U$ 29,990.00 a bit pricey for a young student like you, lad.
http://www.stocktickercompany.com/store/store.php?crn=205&rn=394&action=show_detail
TICKER TAPE became obsolete in the 1960s. About the same time as you I would estimate.
A “rare working reproduction”
Jun 07th, 2014 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Certified Historically Accurate”
God, you aren't even original anymore Think.
Just a facsimile of something that was once ubiquitous and useful and now is nothing more than a reproduction that inefficiently spits out information sourced from the Internet.
Wow, this poor young student couldn't have chosen a better analogy.
Thank you man, thank you so much.
(72) Anglolatino, my dearestest Ozzie Turnip.
Jun 07th, 2014 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That was a very harsh critic on the “Retro, Classic” & Cult” Multibillion Dollar Industry....
Though... You will surely understand when you grow up....
Somebody is bound to manufacture a Certified Historically Accurate Working Reproduction of a PC with preinstalled Sims...
And you will diiiiiie to buy one...
:-)))
@38
Jun 07th, 2014 - 01:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You have waited 200 years so I am sure you can waste another 200 tears ( sorry should read I am sure you can WAIT another 200 YEARS.) LMAO
Not really your day is it Think.
Jun 07th, 2014 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You thought you had me with the STOCK TICKER - but I'm afraid I did know what I was talking about.
And then you compounded it by scarpering off to do some searching and came back with a reproduction. Which was nothing more than a pale shadow of something that used to work and now is nothing more than a glorified printer.
Made to look like something that was once useful and now just prints off stocks from the Internet of all places. Probably comes with a “historically accurate” USB cord.
The analogy to you was complete. No longer useful and superseded by new technology.
I shall enjoy all your future stock ticking episodes into the future. I'm sure you'll have years to keep updating us on companies spending money in the Falkland Islands. Tick Tick Tick Tick
Though unsure why I would buy a reproduction PC when I have 3 old ones hanging around my dad's shed. Why one's a 286. I lost the joy in building my own PCs long ago. Now I'm lazy and happier ensconced in the Apple ecosystem.
SIMS. I'm sure you thought that was an old 'retro' game. But 2000. Haha is that when you finally decided to learn computers?
Try Castle Wolfenstein.
I love how you think you know my age.
(77) Anglolatino, my dearestest of all Ozzie Turnips...
Jun 07th, 2014 - 06:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I mentioned Sims because of its intrinsic “Girlie Factor”...
Wasn't Wolfenstein a bit to violent for your special sensibilities?
Well all else fails, head for the stereotypes Think.
Jun 07th, 2014 - 11:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And let's face it, all your posts to me today have failed abysmally.
Falling for stereotypes only proves you have no comeback. But if it is stereotypes that you need to make you fell all hyper-masculine after having your arse kicked yet again by a homosexual, then who am I stand in the way.
Please feel free to call me names as you have on another thread and by all means please attack and denigrate my masculinity.
I'm enjoying how much you think you know of me. Quite amusing and quite telling. And here I was thinking I was an open book.
Wait for it..... guess I was wrong.
“Girlie Factor”
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Now if you'll excuse me I have a Brony meeting to attend.
Haha!
Jun 08th, 2014 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 79 Anglotino
Jun 08th, 2014 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0OMG, (from an atheist) reading your reply (and checking what a Brony is) I suddenly realised I must be a Brony!
38 years ago (!) I was involved with a large plastics injection moulding company which made the mouldings for My Little Pony in the UK. That was a technically challenging model to manufacture and a novelty at the time.
My boys particularly liked “mixing and matching” the three colours that the two halves were made in: sort of a “Jeckyll and Hyde Pony”!
I will never hold my head up again! :o)
Haha ChrisR
Jun 08th, 2014 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Who would ever have guessed that My Little Pony would be so enduring.
As for Bronys (Bronies?!?), I'm sure they will just confuse the fark out of a Think considering the “intrinsic girlie factor”.
@65
Jun 08th, 2014 - 12:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not you Joe, to be honest it was directed at Benson.
Who seemed to be responding to the previous post by Be Serious about wating to see the results of the next phase of exploration.
My point was if no one was caring about it, why was he posting, a contradiction there I think!
Maybe I read the post wrong. Who knows?
Regards to all down South.
We have come a long way since the Argentine perceived claim that Britain forcibly removed them in 1833. They cannot and will not accept that the only people removed at that time was the illegal argentine military squatters who against British reminders not to attempt to settle did exactly the same thing in 1982 in South Georgia.
Jun 08th, 2014 - 03:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Clearly these people are determined to refuse to acknowledge us and keep referring to us as English squatters.
I wonder how many Argentines actually know how many different nations migrated to the Islands from 1833 onwards. There are many nationalities who settled here and have many generations to prove their existence. It also includes Argentine civilians who in 1833 wanted and was allowed to stay.
This argument over sovereignty rights is nothing more that a way of trying to cause as much disturbance to all of our national settlers as they can because it is not the actual Islands that is of main interest to them but the wealth resources around them. It is also the sheltered haven to mariners who would prefer not to use Argentine ports because of the instability of that Country.
They are struggling financially and everything from tourist , fish , oil and anything else we have done to create revenue from is a direct smack in their faces. If these resources did become theirs they would not take long to destroy them and the proof in that is fishing when they refused to stay with us in the monitoring of fish stocks , rather than that they have exploited all their own stocks to near extinction.
Think is one of their mouth pieces in there propaganda war against us and they use him because he is so naïve to what is really going on inside Argentina.
The Falkland islanders are British by choice but not necessarily by decent. It happens we want and like the British way of life ad we are actually by birth Falkland Islanders or Kelpers as call ourselves spanning nine generations. Britain just so happens cares for our future plans.
Well said, kelperabout.
Jun 08th, 2014 - 10:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Also Think hates the British(& us)for some reason in his past.
So for him, Argentina is always right, no matter what the circumstances.
What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.
Argentina, you're going nowhere.
@84 kelperabout
Jun 09th, 2014 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The Falkland Islanders are British by choice but not necessarily by decent.”
Like no doubt, many of the inhabitants of the Channel Islands had French descendants but wish to be British-similarly with Spanish/Genoese descendants of Gibraltarians-Tahitian/ British descendants of Pitcairn Island.
The Argentines don't seem to understand the concept of free choice, just that of trying to promote 19th century colonialism in the 21st century.
Anglotino
Jun 10th, 2014 - 12:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don't think you've seen my little pony have you?
@87
Jun 12th, 2014 - 06:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No we haven't thank God, now put it back in your trousers as there are seagulls hovering
@87
Jun 12th, 2014 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just turned up to goad people again have you? Typical Yorkish mendacity.
Remember your threats to have me banned from Mercopress, or hound me off the site because 'you have been here longer than me'?
Hmmm...
How's that going for you?
Go on, give us all an update.
Any progress yet?
Lol!
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