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[Phil]

Now just watch the Argies start to perfom and I predict that they will be backed the USA and France (and some others who feel that they've got old scores to settle)

This would represent an ideal opportunity to pull out the EU and f*ck Scotland off as well!........It's a fact of life everyone wants you when you've got oil fields!


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BRITISH oil explorer ROCKHOPPER yesterday scored a hat-trick of strikes off the Falkland Islands — leaving Argentina fuming.

The firm said a new well proved its Sea Lion field 80 miles off the Falklands coast is BIGGER than expected.
And two further big oil hits were made on the way down — as well as a discovery of gas.
The strikes will infuriate Argentina's Prime Minister Cristina Kirchner — who slammed Britain last year for trying to exhaust "Argentinian natural resources".




Location ... oil strikeRockhopper — which has spearheaded the Falklands "black gold" rush — saw its shares rise 11 per cent yesterday as analysts estimated it could recover as much as 430 million barrels of crude from Sea Lion.
The firm's chief executive Sam Moody said: "This fantastic result from our most aggressive well of the campaign will further increase our minimum estimates of oil in place."
EVOLUTION analyst Keith Morris said Rockhopper's stock could be worth more than double yesterday's closing price of 268.5p.
He said: "There is no doubt this well should drive the net asset value higher. This should convince investors that they have a large economic field development."
Rockhopper has made a series of finds since 2010 that have sent tensions with Argentina soaring.
This month, Ms Kirchner's party said Argentinian athletes at next year's London Olympics should wear a logo stating "the Falklands are Argentine".
Last week it emerged the Argentinian navy is boarding European fishing boats it accuses of breaching its "blockade" of sea channels to and from the islands.
Rockhopper believes it could be pumping 120,000 barrels a day out of its Sea Lion field by 2018.
US giant EXXON has dismissed the potential of the Falklands in the past — believing development costs are too high to make the region profitable.

[Steven]

Better speed up the building of that first carrier.

Steve

[Aldwulf of Wessex]

Steven, on 14 December 2011 - 01:45 PM, said:

Better speed up the building of that first carrier.

Steve

Interesting Steve,If naval procurement rises in the near future it  will confirm these reports.Then the scots will want to be part of the union ,lots of work for the shipyards.

[wesle]

and with the oil revenues from it  we,ll be able to maintain a much larger navy to protect it from both envious forigners and so called allies alike.

[Sceadugenden]

This is nothing new , when I was there 20 years ago, we would see survey ships flying mainly Russian flags. They knew there is a lot down there , but just how to get at it the quickest and cheapest  way possible.

[3 SONS OF OLD ENGLAND]

I dont see a task force going there if the "argies" kick off again unless they rob the local boating lake.