Tag: RKH

• Tuesday, January 6th 2015 - 07:14 UTC

  Rockhopper awarded exploration licence with ENI, in Croatian Adriatic

  

  The British company Rockhopper Exploration, with interests in the Falkland Islands, has been awarded a licence to explore, together with Italy's Eni, a field for possible oil and gas exploitation in the central part of the Croatian Adriatic.

• Friday, July 18th 2014 - 08:53 UTC

  Falklands enters oil production stage: contract awarded for designing tension leg platform

  

  International engineering and project management company, AMEC, will be the company responsible for designing Premier Oil’s tension leg platform (TLP) for the Sea Lion Development in the North Falklands Basin, 200 kilometers to the north of the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, December 18th 2013 - 16:46 UTC

  Falklands to cash 146m dollars from tax on farm-out deal in oil industry

  

  An agreement has been reached between the Falkland Islands government and Rockhopper Exploration regarding tax arising from the Sea Lion farm-out to Premier Oil, an operation involving a billion US dollars, and which according to the settlement generated a credit of 146m dollars for the Islands Treasury.

• Friday, November 29th 2013 - 22:06 UTC

  Falklands involved oil company expects to raise £100 million in bond offer

  

  Premier Oil expects to raise at least £100 million in a bond offer scheduled to close on 6 December. The FTSE 250 oil and gas company, with interests in the Falkland Islands, the North Sea, and South-East Asia, said its 5% sterling bonds auction has already built a book value of at least £100 million.

• Monday, November 11th 2013 - 23:46 UTC

  Falklands oil companies bombarded with warning-letters from Argentina

  

  Argentina has begun a determined campaign to deter companies from drilling for oil in disputed waters around the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. On the eve of a visit by UK parliamentarians to Buenos Aires this week, the Argentine embassy in London warned that legal action was being ramped up against drillers and their suppliers, reports Terry Macalister in The Guardian.

• Friday, August 23rd 2013 - 23:22 UTC

  Falklands reviewing tax returns from oil industry but confident ‘an acceptable outcome can be reached’

  

  The Falkland Islands government is reviewing a tax return submitted by one of the oil companies currently operating off-shore the Islands and is confident a mutually acceptable outcome can be reached.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2013 - 05:35 UTC

  Falklands' Sea Lion project outstands in Premier Oil exploration opportunities

  

  Premier Oil, the British North Sea's oldest company outside the oil majors, is turning away from the region for future exploration opportunities such as the Catcher and the Sea Lion project in the Falkland Islands, according to a report published by Reuters.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2013 - 11:45 UTC

  Rockhopper: High Court confirms the cancellation of the Company's Share Premium Account

  

  Rockhopper Exploration plc (AIM: RKH), the North Falkland Basin oil and gas company, announces that at a hearing today, the Companies Court of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice confirmed the cancellation of the Company's share premium account (“Cancellation of Share Premium Account”). The Cancellation of the Share Premium Account is expected to become effective tomorrow, 4 July 2013.

• Friday, April 19th 2013 - 06:24 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ Sea Lion project will demand 5bn dollars and first oil is expected 2017

  

  UK independent oil and gas Premier Oil company said that the Falkland Islands Sea Lion project is one of their biggest operations undertaken to date involving an investment of 5 billion dollars with first oil expected sometime in 2017.

• Wednesday, January 9th 2013 - 16:39 UTC

  Rockhopper planning minimum three wells offshore Falklands in 2014

  

  Rockhopper Exploration which discovered oil offshore the Falkland Islands in 2010 at its Sea Lion prospect is planning a minimum of three exploration and appraisal wells on its North Falkland Basin acreage in 2014 including Sea Lion satellites Casper, Casper South, and Beverley.