Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, May 20th 2015 - 22:09 UTC

  Falklands: “We are an Overseas Territory, very content with the status and endorsed in the 2013 referendum”

  

  The Falkland Islands are very pleased with their current political and democratic status based on the UN charter and confirmed in the 2013 referendum, enjoy a prosperous economy with emphasis on social policies and environment conservation and have good neighborly relations with nearby countries, except for Argentina that “continues to ignore our people's right to self-determination and covet our territory”.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2015 - 05:11 UTC

  Falklands' Isobel Deep well with good prospects of finding oil, say operators

  

  Premier Oil’s high-impact Falklands Isobel Deep well has hit oil shows in a suspected high pressure formation, partners Rockhopper Exploration and Falkland Oil & Gas Ltd., said Tuesday morning. But, the area will now have to be cased, delaying the drilling program.

• Tuesday, May 19th 2015 - 07:05 UTC

  Falklands celebrates 30th Anniversary of Mount Pleasant Airport opening

  

  ”The Falkland Islands airport emerges from rock and peat-bog” said The Times in its 11 May edition, the day before the official opening of Mount Pleasant Airport in 1985, thirty years ago last week.

• Monday, May 18th 2015 - 05:03 UTC

  Falklands' Borders & Southern releases encouraging technical update of Darwin gas/condensate discovery

  

  Borders & Southern has issued a technical update on its Darwin gas/condensate discovery south of the Falkland Islands and near-field prospectivity. The goal was to improve understanding of the Darwin reservoir interval, both within and surrounding the discovery and also its projected facies trend along the Aptian shelf

• Saturday, May 16th 2015 - 08:30 UTC

  Falklands' geophysical oil exploration buoy ends up in SW Australia

  

  The hull bears the scars of a 10,483 kilometre journey from the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic, through the Southern and Indian Oceans to the shores of Esperance in southern Western Australia, according to reports in the Australian media.

• Thursday, May 14th 2015 - 08:45 UTC

  Malvinas war veterans appeal abuses case to Inter American Human Rights Commission

  

  Malvinas war veterans have taken their Human rights abuse case against Argentine officers to the Inter American Human Rights Commission, IHRC, following on Argentina's Supreme Court decision rejecting the case because of time limit.

• Thursday, May 14th 2015 - 00:56 UTC

  Falklands debates bringing contract workers for maintenance of roads system

  

  Bringing contract workers in to ensure enough staff to maintain the Falkland Islands' roads ready for the start of the season in the spring, if not earlier is MLA Gavin Short’s wish.

• Thursday, May 14th 2015 - 00:17 UTC

  Premier confirms Falklands' frontier exploration, where it continues drilling

  

  Premier Oil, currently involved in successful exploratory drilling in the Falkland Islands, produced less oil and gas in the first quarter of the year, but its output of 60,200 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) was above guidance, sending its shares higher on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, May 12th 2015 - 22:03 UTC

  Falklands' Isobel Deep drilling operations have recommenced

  

  Energy company Rockhopper Exploration and Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd., have announced that drilling operations at Isobel Deep well have recommenced. Isobel Deep is located in the North Falklands basin and is part of the current round of drilling in Falklands' waters.

• Tuesday, May 12th 2015 - 06:12 UTC

  Chile's renews 'explicit' support for Argentina's Falklands/Malvinas claim

  

  The Chilean government has renewed its 'explicit' support for Argentina's sovereignty claims over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, according to Daniel Filmus, the Argentine official head of the special department for affairs relative to the Malvinas Islands, who is currently in a political tour in Santiago.