Tag: Sea Lion Main Complex

• Monday, November 2nd 2026 - 15:23 UTC

  An Oxford professor to sit as the UK's chosen judge in the Falklands dispute in Hamburg

  

  British jurist Vaughan Lowe, emeritus professor of public international law at the University of Oxford, will be the judge ad hoc chosen by the United Kingdom in the case between Argentina and London before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea over hydrocarbon exploitation north of the Falklands. Lowe will make his solemn declaration on Monday, November 9, the day before the hearing.

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• Thursday, October 22nd 2026 - 13:35 UTC

  Milei hopes to exploit the Falklands’ oil dispute in next year’s election

  

  By Vicky Kapogianni Associate Professor of International and Environmental Law, University of Reading - Argentina is trying to stop a planned oil project near the Falkland Islands. On October 13, the government asked the International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas (Itlos), a court in Hamburg that deals with disputes over the sea, to halt the project. Argentina says the UK approved the drilling without its agreement and in breach of Argentina’s rights to the seabed.

• Thursday, September 17th 2026 - 17:23 UTC

  Falklands, Rockhopper raises US$ 20 million in fresh funds to fund Sea Lion project

  

  Rockhopper Exploration has completed a plan to raise fresh funds from shareholders, expecting to bring in around US$200 million to fund its investment in the Sea Lion prospect in the Falklands. The AIM-listed firm announced the results of its open offer to shareholders on Wednesday, which raised total gross proceeds of around US$ 20m.

• Thursday, May 21st 2026 - 06:59 UTC

  Falklands’ oil, in June upgrade begins in Asia to adapt Aoka Mizu FPSO to Sea Lion development needs

  

  Rockhopper Exploration (AIM:RKH), has highlighted progress at the Sea Lion oil development in the North Falkland Basin, operated by Navitas Petroleum. The first two phases will use the Aoka Mizu FPSO with capacity of 55,000 barrels per day, while a new memorandum of understanding for a second FPSO could lift total capacity by a further 125,000 barrels per day, significantly expanding the project’s production potential if implemented.

• Sunday, April 5th 2026 - 11:26 UTC

  Falklands plans for oil future, Monday begins Economic Development Forum

  

  As of Monday April 6th the Falkland Islands will become a hub of conferences and workshops with the inauguration of the 2026 Economic Development Forum, prepared by the Falklands Chamber of Commerce and presented by the Falklands Development Corporation, FIDC, which will be looking ahead to the challenges from the oil and telecommunications industries and their transformative dynamics into the future.

• Thursday, December 11th 2025 - 10:28 UTC

  FIG Notes Final Investment Decisions for Sea Lion Development Program

  

  The Falkland Islands Government notes that Navitas Petroleum Development and Production Ltd and Rockhopper Exploration Plc have taken their Final Investment Decisions to invest in the Development Program for the Northern Area of the Sea Lion Field.

• Thursday, December 11th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

  First step for “Falkland Islands as an oil and gas producing region,” BOR Petroleum

  

  Borders & Southern Petroleum plc (AIM:BOR) said that the Navitas/Rockhopper on its final investment decision (FID) for the Sea Lion development project represents the first step toward establishing the Falkland Islands as an oil and gas producing region.

• Monday, December 8th 2025 - 09:02 UTC

  Falklands’ oil development, Navitas has contracted a floating production vessel, UK media

  

  The UK media is reporting that Navitas, the lead operator of the Falkland Islands Sea Lion field, has told investors it has signed contracts to move the Aoka Mizu floating production vessel from Shetland to the South Atlantic and plans a formal “final investment decision” this month.

• Tuesday, September 30th 2025 - 10:11 UTC

  Falklands, growing hydrocarbons oil activity and funding for the Sea Lion oil project

  

  Rockhopper Exploration half year results indicate that the UK oil and gas company is more hopeful than ever that a final investment decision will come this year on the Sea Lion oil project in the Falkland Islands, after it secured a successful capital raise of up to US$ 140 milliom. Rockhopper holds a 35% interest in the project with the Israeli operator Navitas Petroleum holding the remaining 65%.

• Wednesday, September 17th 2025 - 11:12 UTC

  Falklands ‘bashing’, a listing Milei appeals to an old Argentine political habit

  

  Last Friday following a negative electoral week for the government of Argentine president Javier Milei, which forced him to reshape his economic program, and open the tight purse of the budget, looking ahead to the midterm election in October, (and ahead of the arrival of the new British ambassador in Buenos Aires), the Falkland Islands, this time hydrocarbons development, were again the target of Argentine political frustration.