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Probably going to try to stop (short term anyway) RKH from moving any further, to deter any farm in interest.

http://en.mercopress.com/2012/02/07/cristina-fernandez-expected-to-make-major-announcement-on-falklands-and-oil

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Much ado about nothing, she did not even attempt to cancel the weekly flight from Chile.

The major announcement seems to be that she is not happy and very very frustrated and unable to do anything, therefore she is going to lump the problem on the UN (eg I am deflecting all Argentines to look to the UN who already are very clear on the Falklands and will do nothing) and then can walk away from this little hot pot and her ramping statements about getting them back which she used to get elected and stopped people looking at the terrible economic conditions in which they now live - and can now sit back and point at the UN being useless and not her as BOR and FOGL drill for oil and RKH try to farm out.

EG, looks like she has given up for now - and can you blame her. State of the art T45 destroyer there, nuclear submarine, planes and soldiers - no chance for invasion - US interest in Falklands assets, BOR and FOGL drilling, RKH farming out - everything moving ahead fast - does she want to be seen being the leader that let this all happen after telling her people she would get them back in 2012 ? or is she going to be super slippery now and deflect it all over to the UN by talking about their involvement............... I'll let you guess.

Have a follow : http://twitter.com/#!/falklands_utd

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Looks like the start of the hot money into BOR now. Could easily see BOR go up to 100p pre-results now.

Interesting times ahead, BOR strike then FOGL will fly with BOR, but if BOR fail I think the downside on FOGL will be quite limited, due to shorts closing providing some buying support.

Directors moving their shares into SIPP by selling and then buying the same amount.

Cannot blame them, they are protecting potential massive gains from the taxman.

They also have around 3 million options between them that they can take at very low prices should the share price zooooom upwards on good news.

People think I am joking when I say the top hundred FOGL prospects have over 60 billion RECOVERABLE barrels potential.

They will learn soon enough that actually its no joke.........

500 billion with a 30% recovery rate gives 150 billion recoverable barrels, so its no surprise for FOGL, which has the largest and what could be the most prospective license area's, to have in their top hundred prospects the potential for over 60 billion recoverable barrels.

4.7 billion of which are up for grabs with the first well of theirs, Loligo, spudding June should be, perhaps late May even.



http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0210/1224311575834.html


..........Once the anniversaries are over, the Falklanders publicly declare their hope that tensions will decrease and they can return to normal worries, such as the fact that Stanley’s primary school is no longer big enough.

In truth, however, the waters off the Falklands hold the key. Four exploration wells are currently being drilled, amid talk that there are 500 billion barrels “out there”............


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As the BOR result on Darwin nears (circa 24 to 34 days from now), need to remember.

FOGL have 16 billion recoverable barrels of potential in just their main present prospect list (They have over 100 potential prospects totalling a staggering over 60 billion recoverable barrels of potential). Looking closer at what the BOR drills could mean for FOGL.

Borders and Southern's Darwin prospect and drill, if good, will light up circa 2.78 Billion recoverable barrels prospective from same play type leads that FOGL have.

Borders and Southern's Stebbing prospect and drill, if good, will light up circa 1 Billion recoverable barrels prospective from the same play type leads that FOGL have.

And if they both fail FOGL still have 12 Billion barrels potential in their own play types - with first drill at Loligo for a mere 4.7 Billion recoverable barrels........ ;)




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FOGL top 17 prospects = 16 billion recoverable, top 100 prospects = >60 billion recoverable. The actual tax windfall could end up over a trillion pounds.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/9076530/Falklands-oilfields-could-yield-176bn-tax-windfall.html

Falklands oilfields could yield $176bn tax windfall

The Falkland Islands stand to benefit from an enormous $176bn (£111.7bn) tax windfall from oil and gas exploration, according to a major new report.

A report predicts the potential tax riches for Falklands Islands oilfields are likely to reach just shy of $180bn.

By Nathalie Thomas
9:30PM GMT 11 Feb 2012

A study to be handed to the UK Government this week will lay bare the potential riches on offer from drilling in waters within the 200-mile exclusion zone set up during the 1980s Falklands War to mark the boundaries of British territory.

A group of UK-listed companies is involved in exploring four major prospects this year, with the largest, Loligo, potentially holding more than 4.7bn barrels of oil. By comparison Catcher, the biggest discovery in the North Sea of the past 11 years, is believed to hold only 300m barrels.

The report by oil and gas analysts at Edison Investment Research predicts that if all four prospects were drilled, the potential tax riches are likely to reach just shy of $180bn.

At present, the Falklands’ main industry is fishing, which generates just $23m a year. Beyond that, the territory receives only $16m in tax receipts a year from other business sectors.

The most developed prospect, Sea Lion, already appraised by Salisbury-based Rockhopper Exploration, is forecast to produce 448m barrels over the next 20 years.

Just starting to move along with Borders and Southern....just did a little bit of research and found out that the Torea prospect is a coal discovery in not very deep rocks so there is a much better chance of finding oil in the deeper part marine system rather than what I gather was a delta where Torea was drilled and also this area is vast so the prospects at one end of these deepwater licences can be very different from the other end......area much, much bigger than the north falklands licences in comparison.....more than 2 weeks into drilling now and some interesting data must be showing up on their computers for the Borders riggers.....

area may be bigger, but does that actually increase the chances of finding lots of oil? ..... bit questionable i would have thought

They have as many prospects as the whole northern basin put together.....quite incredible and big ones...and small ones...all different in a marine environment ...not a lake like the sealion discovery.....the area including the various prospects is enormous !....and if Loligo (a main prospect) is oil......I would suggest £15 the sp would soar to...and I'm not joking !.

if and when!!!!!!

Answer on the other blog....it's risky Cinners....that's for sure....but what about RKH,GKP,TLW,BUR.....all fantastic .....it was a risk at the start.....

and i didn't buy any of them at the start ..... why this desperation to try to get in at the basement?

rf
I too like a punt now and again but in this case I have de-risked by going with FKL who have a 5% share of FOGL. Irrespective of which exploration company finds the black stuff the onshore side will be almost entirely to the benefit of the FIC so to my tiny mind it's 'win-win'.
The small FOGL holding that I do have I bought three years ago and it should wipe its face.....
I don't hold BOR because I'm not sure about them --COS10% seems worse odds than the nag that came home on Saturday!

5%....well...is that risky...? perhaps FKL will rise by a much larger percentage if and by when they do discover something....not a bad idea....I have a risky position in BOR but four times as many in FOGL.....due to a dozen leads by that company....as I cannot watch the internet all the time (today, I've watched a lot)...but most of the time I have other work commitments...so I miss out on many opportunities....when XEL dived : I missed the start and got caught out badly so I have to get in and sometimes out ahead of things... I'm getting stuffed on Tesco at the mo.....for once I ventured ouside the oil sector....will not go up the blinkin' thing...

I know where you are coming from rf. I felt a bit like that guy in the advert who lost his shirt at the casino, when I sold DES at a big profit and reinvested the proceeds in something dividend-producing and safer, of course. Lloyds. :)

Invest in something sensible and you lose your shirt....crazy isn't it....I hoping for a turnaround for Tesco.....went to one of their stores the other day and it was packed.....the 10p petrol discount plus £5 shopping coupon must doing the trick....anyway coming back to the "foilkies".....there's going to be some serious excitement here soon....for good or for worse....four wells minimum, so.....fingers crossed....

Old men are scared of risk, its that simple. They are not making new money and if they lose their pot they cannot replace it. So they are very very scared of risk.

They want the reward, but are unwilling to take the risk.

So while people, like me, who like to take risks, can make on say RKH from 38p upwards, the others will be buying in and out all the time and making 10p out of every 50p rise. I make the full 50p, they get maybe 10p.

I am making lots of new money too, so if I lose some on a risky punt I do not care - but old people cannot make the new money, they have to always ensure they do not lose any of their capital.

News from BOR should be 1st or 2nd week of March...... not long now.