Tag: Falkland Islands

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 05:37 UTC

  Falklands implements 'local content register' for companies to become suppliers of oil sector

  

  Falkland Islands are implementing the 'local content register' the process by which companies can be recognized as local and thus become suppliers for the oil and gas sector, which is expected to continue advancing following the current round of drilling and successful discovery announcements. A first company already registered last 7 April.

• Monday, May 4th 2015 - 05:19 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas claim: “Argentina following on Ghandi's teachings”

  

  Argentina is following on Mahatma Gandhi's teachings or ahimsa (truth, love and fraternity) that brought independence to India, to claim the Falklands/Malvinas and other South Atlantic islands, said Daniel Filmus, head of the Malvinas Issues Desk in the Argentine foreign ministry during his latest incursion this time in Ethiopia.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2015 - 01:18 UTC

  Falklands confident of its oil industry safety regime and environment protection commitment

  

  The Falkland Islands maintain strong regulatory oversight on all oil and gas operations and its offshore safety regime is based on the North Sea’s Safety Case regulatory structure, recognized as one of the highest standards in the world, said the Falklands' government in a release following concerns related to technical issues on the rig Eirik Raude, currently operating in the South Atlantic.

• Tuesday, April 28th 2015 - 02:07 UTC

  Falklands' fisheries contribute an additional £6 million to Islands' budget

  

  It's budget time in the Falkland Islands and fishing again has boosted the government coffers this year with more than £6 million above that originally budgeted, according to the Penguin News.

• Monday, April 27th 2015 - 07:27 UTC

  Falklands after a more proactive immigration policy for controlled population increase

  

  Falkland Islands is reviewing its immigration policy and is urging a more proactive attitude with the purpose of increasing the permanent resident population and encouraging controlled growth, but this must be a discussion amongst Islanders and elected lawmakers. The Falklands according to the latest census from 2012 has a population of approximately 3.000.

• Monday, April 27th 2015 - 07:16 UTC

  Falklands has received no formal request to DNA test Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin

  

  The elected government of the Falkland Islands (FIG) has not received any formal request from Argentina or the International Red Cross, ICRC to exhume and identify Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin, according to the last edition of Penguin News, the Falklands' weekly.

• Saturday, April 25th 2015 - 06:04 UTC

  Falklands' oil drilling at Isobel Deep suspended two weeks because of a technical problem

  

  Oil explorers drilling in the waters north of the Falkland Islands have suspended work on the second well of their 2015 current six-well drilling campaign after a technical problem, two of the companies involved said on Friday.

• Saturday, April 25th 2015 - 05:08 UTC

  Falklands and replacing the dollar, priorities for Argentina/Moscow agenda, argues Russian ex diplomat

  

  The cooperation agreements recently signed by Argentina with Russia could be a Buenos Aires' response to the situation with the disputed Falkland Islands territories, former Russian ambassador to Argentina Evgeny Astakhov told the Russian news agency, Sputnik International on Friday.

• Friday, April 24th 2015 - 07:36 UTC

  CFK from the Kremlin praises Russia's support for Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty claim

  

  President Cristina Fernandez, CFK, on an official visit to Russia met at the Kremlin with Vladimir Putin and praised Moscow’s support to Argentina in the dispute with the United Kingdom over the sovereignty of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands as well as in the legal battle against speculative funds suing the country over its defaulted bonds.

• Wednesday, April 22nd 2015 - 05:55 UTC

  Gazprom and YPF will sign agreement to develop Argentina shale oil and gas deposits

  

  Argentine energy company YPF CEO Miguel Galuccio is scheduled to sign on Wednesday in Moscow a contract on joint exploitation of shale oil and gas in the rich Vaca Muerta fields of Patagonian province Neuquén. The contract is part of the bilateral agenda to be addressed by visiting Argentine president Cristina Fernandez on Thursday, when she meets with Vladimir Putin.