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

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not much of a gambler or investor then......1650........doesnt even pay my council tax for the year!

nor mine ..... but where is 1650 mentioned as a profit? ..... for someone who loves quoting % gains, you don't seem to be very good at recognising them

wish i could double (could argue that should read triple) my investment (sorry gambling) values every 2/3 months .... and yes, i do bank profits regularly

you always mention profits.....is that 50 or 100 quid here and there.....zzzzz

no wonder u are glued to this all day every day.....u seriously need to get a life

which bit do you choose not to read?

3600 invested in june/july now reads 7600 = 4000 clear (paper) profit
1650 invested in july now reads 4750 = 3100 clear (paper) profit

as to what i do all day, it really is none of your biz ..... though i am glad to say that our own "proper" biz continues to run very profitably even in these tough times, albeit not as good as last year's record result

Cynic why do you post your dribble on threads you have no intrest in and most of all have no knowledge off in any way.

inter alia, because i choose to

u r a very sad lonely man cynic......i fel sorry for you being glued to screen all day. i'm just glad i dont have shares in company u work for as it certainly cant be getting its moneys worth out of your performance (or non-performance)

and you clearly enjoy being a bitter little queen, but then i guess you choose that role ...... it happens that my job entails the computer being on, so no hardship to watch my investments - sorry, gambles - performing and, as it happens for the last few months, very successfully indeed, despite the inevitable odd blip

http://www.fleetstreetinvest.co.uk/oil/oil-outlook/oilo-britain-falklands-84477.html

Is Britain About to Become the New Kuwait?
Date 11/09/2009
The Right Side | By Frank Hemsley

As reiterated in todays press, the oil majors such as Shell, BP, Exxon and the like are still desperate to boost their inventories, mainly due to the fact of low oil reserves on their books, but also due to intentionally over estimating for the last fews years in order to enhance their share prices.
As the Falkland field possiblefinds are being talked about in the same volume category as the BP and Chevron recent finds in Mexico how long will it be before the minnows such as Des/Fogl/Rock and the like are taken over.
IMHO the question won't be so much if as when. Will they wait till oil is pumping in sufficient quantities and risk loosing out to a competitor that jumps first or chance getting in on the ground, IE now.
Both strategy are a risk but which once will they take.

i won't post this 3 times, but this company seems to be the main driving force.

1) there is little doubt that there is oil in the falklands basin, probably in significant amounts

2) as yet, no one has proved the above nor the ease or otherwise with which it can be extracted - as and when found

3) no one (except perhaps here) believes that (eventual) find to flow will or can be less than at least 5 years

3) even if there are substantial quantities of oil to be found, it would be surpremely stupid to suppose that every well drilled will be a success ..... and dusters for minnows have a disproportionate effect on their sp

4) for sure the major oilies need to boost their reserves, and it is equally true that buying known reserves and/or production is much better and cheaper than doing their own exploration

5) but to buy on the premise that the majors are just waiting in the wings to pounce before anyone has even started drilling, is worse than foolish - it's actually a bad policy in any investment; it needs to stand on its own

6) despite the (strong) possibilities of ultimate drilling success, i still maintain my view that sp here and in associated companies has got way ahead of the game ...... now is not the time to buy, or if a holder, taking at least partial profits would be more than prudent to allow a war-chest to re-purchase if desired at a more opportune moment - that will assuredly arise

I bet EK will short some of them soon : he'll jump in at the top.

A good opportunity now for anyone not in these to jump aboard whilst it's settled back as i expect it to rise steadily from here. The research and analysis these days is far far more accurate than it was 10yrs ago and it's just a matter of time getting the rig out there - they know exactly where the oil sits and where to drill now, and I believe oil will be flowing next yr in the Falklands and DES sp to top 10

get a life! ...... next year? ...... more likely Next Year in Marienbad

http://www.oilbarrel.com/nc/news/display_news/article/north-falkland-basin-exploration-campaign-gathers-momentum-as-rockhopper-exploration-bags-a-farm-in/771.html

September 15, 2009

North Falkland Basin Exploration Campaign Gathers Momentum As Rockhopper Exploration Bags A Farm-In Partner And Desire Petroleum Secures That All-Important Rig





More than ten years after the first, and last, wells were drilled in the North Falkland Basin and the campaign to return to the islands is, at last, gaining traction. Shares in Rockhopper Exploration hit a new 52-week high last week as the company announced it had agreed farm-out terms with an unnamed energy company, a deal that should give the AIM firm the financial clout to drill at least two wells on its acreage next year.
And fellow AIM explorer Desire Petroleum also released welcome news to the market last week as it confirmed it has signed a letter of intent to hire the Ocean Guardian rig for a minimum four-well programme starting in February 2010. As long time Falklands followers will know, the chartering of a suitable rig on reasonable terms has been one of the biggest stumbling blocks to getting these remote waters drilled up, with rig mobilisation fees alone running into the many millions of dollars (earlier this year some operators in the Falklands were talking about eye-watering mobilisation fees of between US$10 million and US$50 million).


Now Desire has succeeded in signing a letter of intent with Diamond Offshore Drilling for a minimum four well programme in the North Falkland Basin. The rig, a third generation semi-submersible capable of drilling in waters 1,500 feet deep, is currently in the North Sea and will mobilise for Falkland waters in November, to reach the islands in early February 2010. Desire has options to drill a further four wells, either on its own account or for partners.

This means there are up to eight well slots for the taking in 2010. Given it has taken over ten years to get a rig back in the area, the operators in the North Falkland Basin should take full advantage of this opportunity in order to drill up this high prospective but little drilled area. Desire is already investigating fundraising options to help it make the most of the rig. We intend to explore as many play types as possible, thus maximising our chances of success, said Desires chairman Stephen Phipps, a comment that not only refers to one of the shortcomings of the 1998 drilling campaign, which tested only one play type, but also highlights the diversity of his companys prospect inventory.

Rockhopper certainly hopes to be one of the operators to take advantage of the Ocean Guardians arrival and last weeks farm-out news should ensure it has the financial clout to take up at least one well slot. Investors will now be keen to learn the identity of the anonymous energy company and to find out more about the terms of the deal: all that is known at present is that the farm-in partner has agreed to contribute, at a promote, to the costs of drilling one well on the licence and to certain back costs. Investors will want to know just what kind of investment the incoming partner will make in return for how much equity in the acreage in order to put a value on the deal. These details will also help investors crunch through the numbers to work out what kind of funding gap the AIM firm faces to drill up its acreage: Rockhopper has said it hopes to drill at least two wells using the Ocean Guardian.

Like Desire, the company has a wide range of prospects to choose from, including the Johnson structure, which is the only classified contingent resource in the Falklands. Johnson was drilled by Shell in 1998, finding 165 metres of net gas pay. When Rockhopper took over the acreage it undertook 3D seismic and extensive re-interpretation and cross-analysis with Shells findings to come up with a data set that according to a Competent Persons Report (CPR) from RPS Energy that shows recoverable contingent gas resources in the Johnson structure of 1.6 trillion cubic feet of gas, with a high estimate stretching up to 7.9 tcf. In addition to Johnson, Rockhopper also has over 20 structural oil prospects on its acreage, eight of which have been independently verified. Of these, the Sea Lion and Ernest oil prospects remain the leading candidates for drilling with prospective reserves of 170 million barrels and 156 million barrels of recoverable oil on a P50 basis, respectively.

dick! get off this board

Good to see Barclays have bought a few more share in Desire today

http://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/Companies/ByEvent/Risk/Analysis/article/20090916/001866f0-a2b3-11de-acf8-0015171400aa/Falklands-oil-dream-starts-to-become-reality.jsp

Falklands oil dream starts to become reality

Created:16 September 2009Written by:Martin Li

Excitement over the Falkland Islands' oil and gas potential has re-ignited, as first Desire Petroleum announced it had found a rig that could start drilling early next year, and a day later Rockhopper Exploration announced that it had secured a farm-in partner that could make its planned drilling campaign a reality, too.


Desire has exchanged a letter of intent with Diamond Offshore Drilling for the rig Ocean Guardian to undertake a drilling campaign in the North Falkland Basin. Currently in the North Sea, the rig will mobilise in November and is expected to begin drilling in the Falklands next February. Desire will drill a minimum of four wells and plans to drill as many wells as possible beyond that to test the area's full potential. This may require Desire to raise additional funds. Rockhopper has signed a letter of intent with an as yet unnamed energy company for a farm-in to one of its licences.

These two developments could dovetail perfectly. Desire and Rockhopper are both exploring in the relatively shallow North basin and could share a rig. In May, Rockhopper announced the first Falklands hydrocarbon 'discovery', which resulted from the reinterpretation of a well drilled by Shell a decade earlier. The discovery's best estimate contingent resource is 1.6 trillion cubic feet of gas, which though huge is not currently considered commercial given its remoteness. But a further gas discovery in the area or an incoming partner looking for gas could make this a more attractive development.

The waters of the South basin are deeper than those in the North basin and beyond the capability of Desire's rig. Tim Bushell, chief executive of Falkland Oil and Gas (FOGL), one of the explorers in the South basin, commented that it was looking increasingly likely that the north and south would have separate drilling campaigns.

FOGL and its partner BHP Billiton will shortly be submitting drill permit applications and remain on target to drill probably late next year, subject to securing their own rig. As Mr Bushell observes: "It could be an exciting year for the Falklands."


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IC VIEW:
These developments are extremely positive for all the Falklands explorers. Their shares are popular with speculative investors and have taken off again on this newsflow. Desire (86p) and Rockhopper (72p) are fairly priced pending confirmation of rig and partner details.

"speculative investors" and "fairly priced" are to me the two key phrases, and both strongly suggest caution at this juncture

attention seeking again Cynic....! get a life and move on life is far to short.