Tag: Rockhopper Exploration

• Sunday, September 18th 2011 - 12:26 UTC

  Falkland Islands: 2016 for oil says Rockhopper but Islanders cautious

  

  Rockhopper Exploration’s announcement this week that they expect to begin pumping oil in 2016, set the international media off on a further round of speculation about future wealth, but Falklands stakeholders and interested parties are taking a more cautious approach.

• Wednesday, September 14th 2011 - 14:54 UTC

  Falklands’ Rockhopper unveiled 2bn dollars plan to extract oil by 2016

  

  British oil group Rockhopper Exploration has unveiled plans for a 2 billion dollars investment in the Falkland Islands, a move which will transform the remote territory into a new oil province.

• Monday, August 22nd 2011 - 20:48 UTC

  Argentina’s Falklands claim will not significantly impact oil commerciality, says UK leading bank

  

  The commerciality of the Falkland Islands Rockhopper Exploration’s Sea Lion oilfield development shouldn’t be significantly impacted by logistical problems arising from Argentina’s claim over the sovereignty of the Islands, according to analysts at the Royal Bank of Scotland.

• Monday, August 22nd 2011 - 20:32 UTC

  Rockhopper spuds new assessment well in Falklands’ Sea Lion Main Complex

  

  Monday morning Rockhopper Exploration announced the spudding of its latest exploration well, 14/10-7, to further test the Sea Lion oil discovery in Falkland Islands waters.

• Monday, August 15th 2011 - 22:04 UTC

  Rockhopper raises its estimate of oil in North Falkland basin to 608 million barrels

  

  Rockhopper Exploration PLC upgraded its estimates of how much oil it could find off the Falkland Islands, boosting hopes that the remote territory in the South Atlantic could become a new oil province.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2011 - 07:56 UTC

  Falklands’ appraisal well confirms extension of oil find described as ‘commercially viable’

  

  Rockhopper Exploration said on Tuesday an oil discovery in Falkland Islands waters extends to the west of the original well, adding to hopes that the oil find is large enough to open up a new province in the remote South Atlantic.

• 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.