Energy & Oil

• Saturday, August 31st 2013 - 15:30 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmaker arrives in Uruguay to inform on business opportunities in the Islands

  

  Falkland Islands member of the Legislative Assembly Dick Sawle will be in Montevideo 2-6 September, after spending a week in Brazil involved in business, academia and informal political contacts sponsored by the Foreign Office. In Uruguay according to the official release MLA Sawle will inform about business opportunities with the Falklands and to strengthen the historical ties with Uruguay.

• Saturday, August 31st 2013 - 01:39 UTC

  Falklands’ Argentina banned oil companies linked to YPF partner Chevron

  

  An Argentine lawmaker claims that the US oil corporation Chevron which is investing heavily in developing shale resources in Neuquen with YPF is a partner of Oil Spill Response Limited that is also involved with the oil companies operating in the South Atlantic in Argentine waters but licensed by the Falkland Islands government.

• Saturday, August 31st 2013 - 00:44 UTC

  Falklands’ first oil delayed as cost alternatives are considered

  

  Premier Oil exploring for oil in the Falkland Islands said the company is studying cost alternatives to its drilling operations and crude extracting sub-sea architecture for the development of the Sea Lion project, which could delay the original chronogram for first oil.

• Friday, August 30th 2013 - 01:39 UTC

  Falklands’ changes brought by oil development must be done ‘with sensitivity and sensibility’

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker Mike Summers cautioned at the latest meeting of the Legislative Assembly that a period of extensive change was inevitable for the Islands since the advent of the hydrocarbons industry would change the size of things and to some extent the nature of the community.

• Friday, August 30th 2013 - 01:02 UTC

  Falklands’ consultation on new deep port receives many suggestions and strong support

  

  The Falkland Islands government has released the findings of the public consultation document ‘Your Future – Your Say’ which show a very strong support for phased development of the new port, “to serve all its potential users,” according to an Executive Council paper.

• Friday, August 30th 2013 - 00:34 UTC

  China company takes 33% stake in US Apache Corp. oil and gas business in Egypt

  

  China Petrochemical Corporation, Sinopec, has agreed to buy a 33% stake in the Egyptian oil and gas business of US firm Apache Corporation. Sinopec will pay Apache 3.1bn dollars in cash for the stake. The deal is the latest in a series of similar moves by Chinese oil firms as they look to secure energy supplies to meet growing domestic demand.

• Thursday, August 29th 2013 - 23:54 UTC

  Falklands’ Noble Energy exploring for oil in disputed Caribbean waters supported by Nicaragua

  

  On 17 July, Nicaragua announced that US-based Noble Energy would invest 30 million dollars in drilling two offshore wells in the Caribbean—launching Nicaragua's first-ever oil exploration.

• Thursday, August 29th 2013 - 03:39 UTC

  Neuquen legislature approves YPF/Chevron deal to exploit Vaca Muerta shale reserves

  

  The Argentine Patagonian province of Neuquén legislature approved by a comfortable majority the agreement struck between YPF and Chevron to exploit the Vaca Muerta shale gas reserves, after a day disrupted by fierce protests outside the provincial parliament.

• Wednesday, August 28th 2013 - 14:24 UTC

  EU Home Affairs Commissioner heads mission to examine Spanish controls at Gibraltar border

  

  Cecilia Malmstrom, European Commissioner for Home Affairs, will be heading the mission tasked with examining border controls imposed on Gibraltar by Spain while a second mission will address the ‘customs dimension’ issue, the European Commission has confirmed. British authorities will be involved in the EC probe of the Gibraltar frontier as will Spanish officials but no date for the visit has been set though it is expected within a few weeks.

• Wednesday, August 28th 2013 - 14:13 UTC

  Falklands’ lawmaker invites Brazilian companies to join Islands oil industry development

  

  The sovereignty issue should be left aside and talks should concentrate on the business opportunities offered by the oil industry in the Falkland Islands, said lawmaker Dick Sawle during an interview with AP in Brazil where he is on a week long visit of business and political contacts.