Desire Petroleum

<>Desire Petroleum plc (Desire) is a UK company listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) dedicated to exploring for oil and gas in the North Falkland Basin.

Desire has recently completed a 6 well exploration programme. The Liz well encountered dry gas and gas condensate at 2 separate levels while other wells recorded shows.
Together with the Rockhopper Exploration Sea Lion oil discovery in the licence to the north, these wells have provided significant encouragement for the potential of the North Falkland Basin. The oil at Sea Lion is of particular interest as this has demonstrated that oil is trapped in potentially significant quantities in a fan sandstone on the east flank of the basin. It is believed that over 50% of this east flank play fairway is on Desire operated acreage.

Desire has now completed new 3D seismic acquisition which provides coverage over the east flank play, Ann, Pam and Helen prospects. The results from fast-track processing of priority areas are provided in the 2011 CPR. A farm-out to Rockhopper has been announced. The revised equities are shown on the licence map (subject to regulatory approval and completion of the farm-in well). Desire Petroleum

Rockhopper Exploration

British Geological Survey

Argos Resources



Latest Press Realeses from Desire

http://www.falklandnews.com/public/story.cfm?get=4894&source=3

Speculation is ripe that Oil Company representatives will be visiting the Falklands in May to discuss logistics for the up and coming drilling round. Nothing is firm but HDR will keep an ear to the ground.

However, even attracting a
farm-in partner can provide a
boost to a share price. Falkland
Oil & Gas rocketed after it
announced it was in talks about a
farm-in agreement with major
resources company (eventually
revealed as BHP Billiton (BLT))
last July up more than 50% in
the course of a single day.
Although, interestingly, when
the details were confirmed that
old adage about buying on the
rumour selling on the fact came
to mind, as the stock retreated.
When fellow Falklands explorer
Desire Petroleum (DES:AIM)
announced earlier this month
that it too was in talks with an
unnamed partner it also saw its
shares take off.
Of course the Falkland Islands
are something of a special case.
For quite some time the
companies looking for oil therewere dismissed, not unfairly, on
the basis that they would never
be able to get a rig to the region.
The mobilisation costs alone
were potentially astronomic,
perhaps as much as 30 million
and that supposed that a rig
contractor could be persuaded to
make the journey to the south
Atlantic in a tight rig market and
with plenty of work available in
less remote regions. The arrival
of BHP Billiton has made drilling
far more likely in fact the
company has entered into a
commitment to drill two wellsthat some drilling will take place
next year.
There is another reason why a
farm-in attracts buyers.
Effectively it serves as a seal of
approval on the companys
assets particularly if the partner
is someone of the profile of BHP
Billiton. If a firm with that level
of credibility is prepared to
invest it inevitably boosts
confidence in the prospects of
eventual success.
Ultimately, as discussed
above, if you can judge the
quality of a companys assets
you can judge the quality ofcompany. Obviously having a
good management team helps,
as does a good track record and
strong financial backing. But at
the end of the day what really
matters is the oil or gas in the
ground for a number of firms
a farm-out, at one end of the
scale, or a takeover, at the
other, can be a good way of
realising value.
And in order to tap into the
potential excitement generated
by asset trading we have
sought to identify companies
which have large equity
positions in projects attractive
enough to snare a bidder or
attract farm-in interest.

From Shares mag.

DES Desire Petroleum PLC '' 77.50 78.00 79.00 74.50 74.50 -3.87% SELL-IF

British Bulls

http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=13052&formato=HTML

Will UK demand hydrocarbons income from the Falklands?

Of course the cost of the war has to be recovered.

Strong momentum today along with RKH and BOR. Bodes well for further possible rises.

http://momentum-trader.co.uk

Very strong today, must be news soon. check BB on www.iii.co.uk some very good posts on it

Nice tick-up today :>)

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0505/042a.html

OutFront
The Falklands. Again?
Christopher Steiner 05.05.08

Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner recently proclaimed her country's right to the Falkland Islands "inalienable." These would be the same Falkland Islands that Margaret Thatcher snatched back for Britain, embarrassing Argentina, after Kirchner's country invaded in 1982. We all understand the occasional bout of nationalism, especially when it comes from a head of state in South America, where that seems to be the going shtick. The real question: Why the heck does Kirchner, or anyone, want the Falkland Islands? We've ranked theories for plausibility, from 1 to 100 points.

1. She's hoping to prove that the Falklands wolf, a species last spotted in 1876, is still around. 1 point.

2. Kirchner wants to establish an economic think tank and tap the brainpower on the islands. The resident population consists of doddering British expats who wear tweed and herd sheep. 2 points.

3. She's after those rabble-rousing runts of the Falklands, the Macaroni penguins, whose heads are adorned with yellow feathers, much like Yankee Doodle. 2 points.

4. Kirchner is preparing for her exile once her government gets overthrown by soybean farmers who roiled international markets with a March strike after Kirchner jacked export taxes above 40%. 5 points.

5. There's oil--conceivably 60 billion barrels beneath the Falklands and surrounding seas. Even if the economically recoverable quantity is only 10% of this total, it's interesting. Six exploratory wells were drilled in 1998, and they exposed rich source rock in the north end of the Falkland basin. Desire Petroleum, a British firm, is preparing to explore further but is hindered by the scarcity of floating drilling platforms, almost all of which are far from the islands and can cost $4 million a week to operate. Perhaps Royal Dutch Shell (nyse: RDSA - news - people ) now regrets pulling its interests out of the Falklands a decade ago when oil was dirt cheap. 90 points.

North Falkland push shifts up a gear

By Upstream staff


UK junior Rockhopper Exploration said it is moving into the last phase of preparations before kicking off a drilling campaign in the North Falkland basin.

We have identified a number of targets in PL032 & PL033 on the 3D seismicwhich are sufficiently low risk for us to drill in addition to the Ernest prospect and we are waiting to see what the interpretation of the new 2D over Weddell shows us, said Rockhoppers chairman, Pierre Jungels.

The outfit has hired SPD Group to carryout a range of well engineering services, while at the same time Thompson Knight Global Energy Services has been appointed to assist in its drilling farm-out campaign.

The company has also hired RPS Energy to undertake an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) on licences PL032 and PL033 in preparation for drilling. The EIA on licences PL023 and PL024 is already in progress.

CGS Veritas has been commissioned to reprocess the short offset 3D data over licences PL032 and PL033.

Following the reprocessing and evaluation of this data and completion of the EIAa, the company expects to be ready to drill two to four targets across its acreage.

These two to four wells, when added to the four wells to be drilled by Desire and its partner result in a potential eight well campaign in the North Falkland basin.

Rockhopper estimates that the acreage licensed to them may contain over 3.5 billion barrels of oil.

Sorry but I missed the name of their drilling/farm out partner?

The partner is still a mystery halifax. All will be reveiled in time!

Fair enough but why the delay in making the disclosure? What matters is that their partner has sufficient cash resources to fund a very expensive drilling programme. FOGL has already achieved this by partnering with BHP.

They need the nod from the Falklands Government before it's a go.

Halifax i hope you read the bit about the possible 8 holes drilled in the NFB,news before the end of the month.

Markymar that might be a wee bit difficult without a rig!!

nick one fae abbberdeen.......baaaaaa

Todays Penquin News


THE Chairman of Desire
Petroleum, Dr Colin Phipps, is
expected to release his annual
report on Monday and industry
insiders are hopeful the company
will reveal the identity of its
farm-in partner.
In February, Desire announced
it had accepted the terms of an
offer from a significant party
to farm-in to three of the eighteen
exploration prospects they had
identified in the North Falklands
Basin, however the identity of the
partner was not revealed.
Since then, the companys
share price has tripled in price.
The Times Online this week reported
that the agreement was
rumoured to be with private Norwegian
group Arcadia, however
Desires Falklands spokesperson,
Lewis Clifton, was unwilling to
confirm this, saying that any announcement
had to come via the
London Stock Exchange.

Gossip

Article on Bloomberg:

Borders & Southern Rises to Record on Speculation of Shell Bid

By Sabine Pirone and Sarah Thompson
April 28 (Bloomberg) -- Borders & Southern Petroleum Plc, a U.K.-based company that explores for oil near the Falkland Islands, rose to a record in London trading on speculation Royal Dutch Shell Plc may make a takeover bid.

Borders & Southern advanced as much as 5.75 pence, or 7 percent, to 89 pence and traded at 87 pence at 9:14 a.m. That's the biggest gain since May 2005 and boosts the London-based company's market value to 169 million pounds ($334.9 million).

``Rumors of Shell's interest in Borders & Southern have been around for a while,'' Jimmy Yates, a London-based trader at CMC Markets Plc, said today by telephone. ``The price being bandied around is 220 pence.''

``We have not been approached by anyone,'' Borders & Southern Chief Executive Officer Howard Obee said in a telephone interview today. Borders & Southern is ``not aware of any interest by Shell,'' Obee said.

Shell's press department couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

Sabine Pirone in London at +44-20-7673-2356 or
spirone@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Kenneth Wong at +49-30-70010-6215 or kwong11@bloomberg.net

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7293&page=0

The prize of oil
By John Lea - posted Tuesday, 29 April 2008