Falkland Islands

• Saturday, September 12th 2009 - 10:45 UTC

  Rockhopper Exploration joins Falklands’ oil drilling season

  

  Oil and gas explorer Rockhopper Exploration with licences in the North Falkland Basin announced Friday it had agreed terms with a third party energy company for a farm-in to one of the Company’s licences, including support for the costs of drilling one well.

• Friday, September 11th 2009 - 11:31 UTC

  Fakland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  DESIRE SHARE PRICE SOARS ON BACK OF OIL NEWS.
  Desire Petroleum shareholders who have stood by their investments for more than a decade were rewarded yesterday when the news that a rig had been sourced sent shares leaping almost 40 per cent to 89p.

• Friday, September 11th 2009 - 11:09 UTC

  Number of Malvinas Families next of kin traveling to Falklands is 375

  

  The Malvinas Families members that will be traveling to the Falkland Islands next month for the official inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine Cemetery at Darwin will be limited to 375 (170 and 205) according to the latest reports from Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, September 10th 2009 - 18:46 UTC

  Desire signs ‘letter of intent’ for Falklands drilling campaign

  

  Desire Petroleum plc the exploration company focusing on the North Falkland Basin, has announced that it has exchanged a letter of intent with Diamond Offshore Drilling (UK) Ltd for the drilling unit the Ocean Guardian to undertake a four well minimum drilling campaign in the North Falkland Basin.

• Thursday, September 10th 2009 - 11:47 UTC

  Malvinas Families peregrination to Falklands with no Argentine officials

  

  Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana confirmed officially that no Argentine official will be travelling with the Malvinas Families to the Falkland Islands for the inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin next October. “No, no one is travelling”, said Taiana when asked by the Argentine press.

• Monday, September 7th 2009 - 14:06 UTC

  Argentine next-of-kin preparing for trip to open Darwin cemetery Memorial

  

  Over 300 relatives from Argentines combatants killed in 1982 during the Falkland Islands conflict are preparing for the trip for the official inauguration of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin, according to Cesar Trejo member of the Malvinas Families Commission.

• Friday, September 4th 2009 - 10:05 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: Nigel our new man at the Big House; Threat to Airbridge; Next of kin trip.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2009 - 03:21 UTC

  Falklands on route map for 2010 Games in India Queen’s Baton relay

  

  Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is to launch a baton relay – one of the longest in history – in the presence of Indian President Pratibha Patil to lift the curtain on the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, organizers announced this week.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2009 - 19:37 UTC

  British consul in Basra next Falkland Islands governor

  

  British Consul General in Basra Iraq and biodiversity conservation expert Nigel Haywood will be the next Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2009 - 13:17 UTC

  Argentina ‘environmentally irresponsible’ say Falklands’ strategy writers

  

  Argentina’s lack of action with regard to over fishing in its own waters and on the high seas was described as “environmentally irresponsible” at the fisheries sector of a public presentation on the Falklands Environmental Development Strategy (EDS) last week.