Tag: Rockhopper Exploration

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:38 UTC

  Falklands’ third appraisal oil well results should be known by end of August

  

  Falklands’ Rockhopper Exploration, the oil and gas explorer, pressed ahead with its hunt for oil in the North Falklands with the drilling of its third appraisal well on the Sea Lion Discovery feature last week.

• 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 - 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.

• Monday, June 27th 2011 - 07:25 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Rockhopper 14/10-5 Appraisal well update – flow test result

  

  Rockhopper Exploration, the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, is pleased to provide the following update on the flow test carried out at well 14/10-5. * Well flowed at commercially viable rates. * Well flowed at stabilised rates of 5508 stb/ * l achieved a maximum stabilised flow rate of 9036 stb/d

• Wednesday, June 1st 2011 - 16:23 UTC

  Falklands’ appraisal well confirms oil quality at Sea Lion prospect discovery

  

  Rockhopper Exploration operating in the North Falkland basin has provided an upbeat update on its second appraisal well, 14/10-5, on the Sea Lion discovery which was drilled 600 m north of the 14/10-2 discovery well to a TD of 2,726 m.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2011 - 13:42 UTC

  Interest in Falklands oil exploration “on the increase” at AAPG

  

  INTEREST in the Falkland Islands, “is on the increase,” said Director of Mineral Resources Phyllis Rendell who recently attended the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) in Houston.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2011 - 23:04 UTC

  Falklands oil company spuds new well and has four more lined up

  

  Rockhopper Exploration has spudded the next appraisal well on the Sea Lion oil discovery in the Falkland Islands’ waters. Drilling began on the 14/10-5 appraisal well on May first 2011.

• Monday, April 18th 2011 - 10:03 UTC

  Desire plugs Ninky well, plans to move to East Flank based on positive 3D

  

  Falkland Islands Desire Petroleum reported Monday that it had completed the drilling of its Ninky prospect (2.620 metres) which showed the reservoir quality “is generally poor” and therefore the well will be plugged and abandoned, according to an official report released Monday.

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 09:13 UTC

  Falklands’ Sea Lion well latest oil appraisal sends Rockhopper shares soaring

  

  Shares in Falkland Islands Rockhopper Exploration soared 16% on Monday, after it raised its lowest case estimate of crude reserves at its Sea Lion well.