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

Trades @70p..

Damn...

A complete Disaster.

How did they get it so wrong again......fooking water

It's a cold cold day!

glad i sold about 1/2 on friday ..... bit the bullet this morning on the balance at 71.5

MARKY - i do so hope that you banked a huge lump of the well-earned profit you made on RKH and haven't just blown it all out of the window again

Bought a few more....if there are oil shows...oil in quantity might be somewhere there....as sealion is not that far away......but this is a blow today after the previous announcements....

No Cynic all blown.....whats done is done.......Rkh still my biggest holding

Well...I'm expecting a rebound....perhaps 10 to 20p....

stuck with my small holding........thats life!!!! But sold rkh for time being at profit as there will be no action there till next year and winter could delay any drilling till next spring.

Winter ?....it's summer down there...

ah...could be a problem then rf.....lol...was thinking of home.,. emu

Just posting this for continuity (bit late on parade this morning):
StockMarketWire.com
North Falkland Basin-focussed oil and gas firm Desire Petroleum has plugged and abandoned the 14/15-2 Rachel North well.

Preliminary results from initial log data indicated that the well had encountered a 349m gross interval of sands and shales with hydrocarbons, of which 57m was net pay in multiple zones.

But sampling of the main sand has shown that the hydrocarbons are residual and that the mobile fluid is water.

Chairman Stephen Phipps said: "Having seen the highly encouraging results from the first logs, the LWD, PEX and CMR, on this well, plus accompanying oil shows, it is extremely disappointing that the subsequent wireline logs and fluids sampling have dashed all the earlier promise of this being Desire's first oil discovery in the North Falkland Basin.

"Despite this setback, the presence of hydrocarbons and good reservoir development have been identified in a number of the Rachel fan sands and we therefore continue to believe in the prospectivity of the East Flank Play fairway for future oil discoveries."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/302

Balerboy just taken kids to school its -11 here in sunny Northumberland........a lot better weather in Falklands but very windy.......Roll on RKH getting the rig the star of 2011 on the AIM is XEL 2010 star then RKH fingers crossed for news on XEL.

I'm starting to think that one day Desire Petroleum will hit the jackpot !....

where have i heard that in the recent past?
i'm out and am certainly happy to be so

They are not going to stop drilling now....one well after another.....you do short term trades.....I cannot do that very much so have to look at the longer term.....but this was unexpected this morning...I have to say...wish I took some more profits when I could have.....

No Falklands oil find..

The Telegraph.

just because you are buying for "longer term" whatever that may mean, does not give you any greater protection ..... in honesty, i think DES is nearing the end of the line

That's cheered me up no end, thanks....