Rockhopper was established in 2004 with a strategy to invest in and undertake an offshore oil exploration programme in the North Falkland Basin. It was floated on AIM in August 2005. Rockhopper was the first company to make a commercial oil discovery in the Falklands. Today Rockhopper is the largest acreage holder in the North Falkland Basin, with interests in the Greater Mediterranean region.
Had a pint with a guy who is just off to the west Falklands working for the Atmospheric Research Facility (Measuring particulates in the atmosphere for some obscure reason). Sadly he is not up to speed on the drilling program, so he won't be much use for dockside info, though he did say that anything routing through Argentina, regardless of whether it is oil related or not, is very severely delayed if it has any British connection. They are very anti-British atm.
Cynic....NFB only had/has the 'potential' for Zillions of Barrels till the drillbit proves it all up. Seismic points out possible traps/reservoirs for the potential size of the 'Pot of Gold' and at some time the drillbit will probably prove it up. FOGL/BOR acreage is huge should all the pieces in the Hydrocarbon Jigsaw fall into place and Sealion has proved that it has happened in the NFB.
definitely not ...... it is already known that RKH has found significant amounts of oil at Sealion, though the flowtests remain to be done ..... the weakness now is related to ernest which is an awful long way away from Sealion ..... as several have said, the chances of RKH finding commercial oil at ernest are slim - 5:1 - and if i have read correctly, one of the major parts of the exercise is to try to determine the full extent of the Sealion and attaching reservoirs - or something like that ..... marky is far more up to speed than i on these things