Falkland Islands

• Saturday, September 25th 2010 - 03:14 UTC

  Falklands Desire raises an extra £ 22.8 million for further oil seismic surveying

  

  Desire Petroleum (AIM:DES), one of the Falkland Islands oil exploration companies announced Friday it had successfully placed 16,294,600 shares at 140 pence each raising £22.8 million before expenses.

• Saturday, September 25th 2010 - 03:05 UTC

  Technical constraints limit Falklands’ oil well flow test to 2.000 bopd

  

  Rockhopper Exploration said that during the testing of its Sea Lion well in the Falkland Islands, problems limited the amount of oil extracted to just an average of 2000 barrels per day (bopd). Otherwise, it could have produced sustained rates of at least double that, at 4000 bopd, “without these constraints”.

• Friday, September 24th 2010 - 23:40 UTC

  Cristina blasts UK and UN Security Council for lack of progress in Falklands/Malvinas

  

  Addressing the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner criticized the British government for continuing to ignore Argentina's request for sovereignty talks over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Friday, September 24th 2010 - 05:12 UTC

  Uruguay marks distance from Argentina: UK does not come to plunder resources

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica marked distance from Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner and said that denying clearance to a Falkland Islands bound British destroyer to call in Montevideo was based on previous decisions on the issue and “not in a defence of interests against the UK”, reports the local daily Ultima Noticias.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 18:16 UTC

  Falkland Islands fishing industry unconcerned about Argentine interference

  

  DUE to planned port developments in the Falkland Islands, fishery executives there appear unworried by Argentina’s most recent attempt to interfere in their fishing industry.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 07:26 UTC

  Eurofighter Typhoon ejection seats modified following a fatal accident

  

  Britain's Royal Air Force has modified the ejection seat harnesses on its Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft following a fatal accident in Spain, the Ministry of Defense said Monday.

• Tuesday, September 21st 2010 - 01:54 UTC

  Argentina denies “innocent pass” to Spanish trawler sailing from Falklands

  

  A Spanish flagged trawler that operates in Falkland Islands waters and was heading to Montevideo to unload 700 tons of fish was denied “innocent pass” through Argentine waters and had to steam an additional 17 hours at a cost of 7.000 litres of fuel.

• Tuesday, September 21st 2010 - 01:19 UTC

  Uruguay bans docking permit to Royal Navy vessel heading for the Falklands

  

  HMS Gloucester, the Royal Navy South Atlantic patrol was banned from entering Montevideo for supplies and fuel, just a few hours before docking and in spite of having been authorized several days before to call in at Uruguay’s capital port.

• Monday, September 20th 2010 - 23:33 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner scheduled to address UN assembly Friday

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is expected in New York Wednesday to meet an intensive agenda that includes addressing the UN General Assembly next Friday when a strong call for Falklands/Malvinas negotiations is expected.

• Friday, September 17th 2010 - 20:43 UTC

  Rockhopper declares Falklands’ oil discovery will be commercially viable

  

  Rockhopper Exploration (RKH.L) said it believed its oil discovery offshore the Falklands Islands will be commercially viable. A test at the Sea Lion 1 well in the North Falkland basin produced sustained rates of over 2,000 barrels of oil per day, in line with its hopes, Rockhopper said in a statement on Friday.