Falkland Islands

Thursday, July 7th 2011 - 16:37 UTC
Falklands Rockhopper contracts further drilling of four wells

Rockhopper Exploration plc announced on Thursday a further drilling of four wells offshore the Falkland Islands. The first of them, 14/10-6, will be the third appraisal well on the Sea Lion feature where the discovery of oil at commercial rate has been confirmed.
Tuesday, July 5th 2011 - 16:29 UTC
How seafood, oil and tourism made ’squidionaires’ and the Falklands’ rich

Caroline Graham from London's Mail on Sunday visited the Falkland Islands for a week and chance had it she arrived when a commercial oil strike was announced by one of the several companies exploring offshore the Islands.
Tuesday, July 5th 2011 - 15:21 UTC
Falklands’ Argos fast-track 3D processing anticipate drilling in late 2011/2012

Falkland Islands Argos Resources Limited reports encouraging progress on the processing and interpretation of its recently acquired 3D seismic data over its 100% owned licence PL001 in the North Falkland basin. With fast track processing of the 3D data Argos could be ready for exploratory drilling in late 2011/2012.
Tuesday, July 5th 2011 - 15:14 UTC
Rockhopper considers options to extract and store oil from Falklands’ Sea Lion well

Rockhopper Exploration is looking at some form of floating platform as the likeliest option to produce its Sea Lion oil and gas discovery offshore the Falkland Islands. But the company wants to complete delineation of the field before progressing to the front-end engineering and design (FEED) stage, reports Offshore.
Friday, July 1st 2011 - 07:12 UTC
Falkland Islands: Rockhopper Exploration plc PR

Rockhopper Exploration, the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, is pleased to announce results for the twelve months ended 31 March 2011.
Wednesday, June 29th 2011 - 22:48 UTC
Falkland Islands well defended and world opinion tide is on ‘our favour’, says MLA Sawle

The Falklands are well defended, much better than in 1982, and the international opinion tide is turning “on our favour” said Dick Sawle, elected member of the Falklands’ Legislative Assembly recently back from a round of political contacts in New York and Washington.
Wednesday, June 29th 2011 - 06:35 UTC
Argentine election fever: minister accuses UK of keeping hostage “2000 Falklands’ Islanders”

In the midst of Argentina’s campaign for the October presidential election, Defence minister Arturo Puricelli accused the UK of using military force to keep “the Falkland Islanders as hostages” and said Argentina won’t fall prey of “militaristic” provocations.
Monday, June 27th 2011 - 18:36 UTC
UK committed to Falklands in spite of all the “huff and puff” from Argentine politicians

The UK remains committed to retaining sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the face of renewed Argentine pressure over the issue, and has the political will and military means to defend the Islands, Defence Secretary Liam Fox said.
Monday, June 27th 2011 - 18:31 UTC
Bus sized asteroid to zoom over the Falklands’ at 7.600 miles in space

An asteroid the size of a bus and massing 600 tons is barreling through space toward planet Earth at terrific speed and is scheduled to zoom across the South Atlantic and the Falkland Islanders late Monday, reports Space magazine.
Monday, June 27th 2011 - 16:17 UTC
Falklands, South Georgia success in minimizing long-line fishing seabird bycatch

A study has revealed that at least 160,000 and potentially in excess of 320,000 seabirds are killed annually in longline fisheries globally. Some previous studies have assessed the level of seabird by catching longline fisheries for particular regions and groups of seabirds, but this is the first study to provide a global estimate of by-catch of all seabirds in longline fisheries.