Tag: Falkland Islands

Thursday, April 4th 2013 - 18:37 UTC
Falkland Islands’ oil industry associate begins offshore production from Israel’s major gas deposits

Houston based Noble Energy which also has interests in the Falkland Islands oil industry announced this week that the Tamar natural gas field offshore Israel has been successfully brought online with all five of the sub-sea wells now producing at stable rates totalling approximately 300 million cubic feet per day.
Thursday, April 4th 2013 - 07:40 UTC
Batelco completes buyout of Cable & Wireless; includes Falklands, St Helena and Ascension services

Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) has completed the disposal of the majority of its Monaco & Islands division, which was announced last December and includes the South Atlantic islands of Falklands, Ascension and St Helena.
Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 - 23:50 UTC
Falkland Islands’ success in Colombia: debate at leading university and speech before Congress

A Falkland Islands delegation concluded this week a very successful visit to Colombia where they not only met with local authorities and lawmakers but also addressed the Lower House of Congress and were able to express loud and clear the Islanders’ message born out of the recent referendum in which they overwhelmingly voted to remain a British Overseas Territory.
Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 - 07:08 UTC
Falklands’ lawmaker regrets South American leaders take for granted Argentina’s version of events

Falklands’ lawmaker Gavin Short regretted on Tuesday in Bolivia that the governments of South America take for granted the Argentine version of the conflict between Argentina and the UK over the Islands sovereignty without ever having listened to the other side.
Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 - 03:03 UTC
Falkland Islands’ referendum blasted by the Argentine embassy in Montevideo media

In full half page white and blue ads the Argentine embassy in Montevideo expressed on Tuesday how grateful it is to Uruguay for its support in the Malvinas Islands claim and for having been one of the first countries to reject the ‘legitimacy and publicity stunt’ of the ‘pseudo-referendum’ recently held in the Falklands.
Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 - 00:59 UTC
Falkland Island's: identification of NN remains at Darwin memorial back on stage

President Cristina Fernandez announced on Tuesday that 91 next of kin of Argentine combatants buried in NN graves at the Falkland Islands Darwin memorial have agreed and signed to have the remains DNA tested and clearly identified.
Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 - 00:54 UTC
Falkland Islands’ war anniversary: Argentina pledges to ‘unremittingly’ insist on dialogue with UK

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez marked Tuesday's 31st anniversary of the start of the Falklands War by again demanding that Britain agree to discuss sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands.
Tuesday, April 2nd 2013 - 20:50 UTC
Falklands’ shipping company improves reefer box service and storage capacity

The Falkland Islands shipping company South American Atlantic Services Ltd (SAAS) has turned a “nightmare,” into a going concern and is now over-target on imports, Director Hamish Wylie told customers and other invited guests at a reception at the SAAS offices in Stanley last week.
Tuesday, April 2nd 2013 - 18:27 UTC
Falklands’ new port facility sea bed survey to be completed by early June

A deployable core drill rig is taking samples of the sea bed and rock structure for the likely locations of a future deep-sea port for the Falkland Islands in Port William, reports the Penguin News.
Tuesday, April 2nd 2013 - 16:30 UTC
Falkland Islands’ long standing friend, HMS Edinburgh returns to Portsmouth for decommission

Edinburgh, the Royal Navy's last remaining Type 42 destroyer, returned to Portsmouth from her final deployment last week. The 30 year old warship has spent the past 6 months patrolling the Atlantic and over the years has been in several assignments in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia.