Energy & Oil

• Monday, June 29th 2015 - 19:45 UTC

  Falklands elected government: “Argentina courts have no jurisdiction in the Falklands”

  

  “Argentine courts have no jurisdiction in the Falkland Islands”, said Falklands' lawmaker Mike Summers early Monday in response to the latest Argentine attempt into bullying the Islands and derailing its economy.

• Monday, June 29th 2015 - 05:38 UTC

  Argentine judge orders seizure of Falklands' oil companies assets

  

  Argentina will pursue in Britain and the United States a local judge's order to seize assets of oil drillers operating in the disputed Falklands Islands, the Argentine foreign minister Hector Timerman said in an interview published in a government financed newspaper on Sunday.

• Friday, June 26th 2015 - 06:23 UTC

  Petrobras bribery case reaches US courts on investors' class action lawsuit

  

  Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras urged a U.S. judge on Thursday to throw out an investors' class action lawsuit claiming a multibillion-dollar bribery scandal overvalued it for years. Speaking at a hearing in federal court in New York, Petrobras lawyer Roger Cooper said the company itself was a victim of the fraud, which he said was orchestrated by a handful of individuals.

• Thursday, June 25th 2015 - 07:22 UTC

  Guyana gives assurances to Exxon to keep exploring for oil, despite Venezuela's threats

  

  Venezuela’s recent claim on Guyana’s maritime territory is a “legal absurdity” and US oil firm ExxonMobil will continue to work as scheduled, President David Granger has said. Labeling Caracas’ claim as the worst intrusion the country has ever had on its sovereignty, the President said his government has made its position on the claim by Venezuela clear to the oil company.

• Tuesday, June 23rd 2015 - 06:17 UTC

  Falklands engineer invited to speak on wind energy in Trinidad Tobago

  

  Glenn Ross from the Falkland Islands will be speaking on wind energy and integration to diesel systems at the annual conference of Trinidad and Tobago Professional Engineers Association (APETT) scheduled for June 25/26 at Point Lisas.

• Thursday, June 18th 2015 - 06:34 UTC

  Punta Arenas rescues semi-submersible rig stranded in the port's muddy bottom

  

  A semi-submersible rig of Chinese origin commissioned to Total and which grounded 200 meters from the coast in Punta Arenas following strong winds and tides that let it lose from its moorings in the port, has been rescued on the high tide. Apparently the huge vessel has not suffered major 'visible damages', reports La Prensa Austral.

• Wednesday, June 17th 2015 - 04:38 UTC

  Falklands have a bright future and Islanders the resolve to face harassment and bullying

  

  The Falkland Islands have a bright future, not without challenges, or harassment or bullying, but the Islanders will face them with the same strength, tenacity and resolve that helped them through the conflict 33 years ago, said Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire at the annual Falklands' Government Reception in London.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2015 - 05:13 UTC

  Gas leak forces Petrobras to halt production at offshore platform: second incident in a month

  

  Brazil's Petrobras halted production on Sunday from its P-40 platform in the offshore Marlim Sul field after a gas leak on the vessel, an oil workers' union and the country's petroleum regulator said on Monday.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2015 - 00:40 UTC

  Falklands' rig drilling to the south east of the Islands at Humpback prospect

  

  Falkland Oil & Gas Ltd. said on Monday that drilling had started at the Humpback exploration well off the south-east coast of the Falkland Islands. The spudding of the well actually took place last Saturday.

• Monday, June 15th 2015 - 04:53 UTC

  UK High Commissioner dismisses Venezuela's (oily) claim on Guyana's maritime front

  

  British High Commissioner to Guyana, James Gregory Quinn has dismissed Venezuela’s most recent claim on Guyana’s oil rich Essequibo Coast, stating that it lacks solid grounds. Venezuela’s President Nicholas Maduro on May 27 signed a decree that now claims an entire portion of Guyana’s territory into the Atlantic Ocean and includes the Stabroek Block where a significant portion of oil was recently discovered by US oil giant, ExxonMobil.