http://www.falklands-oil.com/

http://www.rockhopperexploration.co.uk

http://www.argosresources.com/




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.

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Nice to see a little bounce,should see an RNS on Monday or Tuesday that the OG has spud.

Markymar - will core samples have been returned to UK for analysis and, if so, how long till a result is likely to be announced? Could such samples help clear up the ambiguous results from Sand 3?

carsie68, I would think most core samples will be back in UK or on there way back soon, how long for this detailed analyst will take I dont know, some great debating going on iii Over the last few days by some very qualified experts in there fields with different views.

Two post that stand out and it looks like we were very close to an oil dicovery and it could change after been in the lab is Stu

http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail/?display=discussion&code=cotn%3ARKH.L&threshold=50&it=le&action=detail&id=7793814&prevpost=7790420&nextpost=7794261

Also Gramacho post

http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail/?display=discussion&code=cotn%3ARKH.L&threshold=50&it=le&action=detail&id=7808091&prevpost=7806240&nextpost=7812908

Roadshow in progress and should be spud of the appraisal well RNS on Monday/early next week.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/42d2b592-3ab3-11e0-9c1a-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1EG7WWziy

Rockhopper Exploration, 0.7 per cent better at 271p, was in focus as the company started an investor roadshow.
Thursdays meetings was hosted by Merrill Lynch and Fridays will be at the Victoria offices of Canaccord Genuity

Thanks, Marymar

is on the way up once again looking for 280p+ like yesterday

You would think if RKH have started an investor roadshow there must be some thing new for them to talk about and it must be postive or it woudnt be worth talking about.

Will there be new brokers notes out soon?

For those that have not read it, the Edison update.

http://www.mediafire.com/?s6ou9fbvtsb2ara

Edison report

"It leaves time for the work required to model the reservoir distribution across the multiple stacked fans in Sea Lion."

I was told from a good source that there was upto 7 stacked fans in sea lion hence i was gutted when the guns did not go off in flow test.

500 mill barrels + time will tell

14/10-4 Appraisal Well Spud
Rockhopper Exploration plc (AIM: RKH), the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, announces that the 14/10-4 appraisal well was spudded at 0040hrs GMT on 19 February 2011. 14/10-4 is the first appraisal well to be drilled on the Sea Lion feature situated on Licence PL032, which is 100% owned and operated by Rockhopper.

The appraisal well (14/10-4) is located 2.3km away from the Sea Lion 14/10-2 discovery well, in the southern lobe of the Sea Lion fan system. 14/10-4 is designed to investigate reservoir and hydrocarbon columns downdip of the Sea Lion 14/10-2 discovery well. The planned Target Depth of circa 3,000 metres will investigate the possibility of deeper sands than those encountered in the Sea Lion discovery well.

Drilling operations are expected to take approximately 38 days and a further announcement will be made once drilling is completed.

Surprised at the lack of interest.....the sp could double here in a very short space of time......plus, better fill up at the pumps...oil is soaring....

Down......would you believe it ?.....

I saw the RNS and the prices were up a bit in early trades. Leave my desk for 20 minutes and down she goes. This sluggishness is getting annoying now. Was hoping for a bit more strength as she tries to prove the size of the field.

Is it possible, you're all barking up the wrong tree?

What's the right tree ?

Thought i was getting a bargin when re topping up at 2.82p......thats shares for you!!!!!

I see there is a buy just gone through for 140,000 shares at 9.39am.

http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/25723/rockhopper-exploration-spuds-sea-lion-appraisal-well-25723.html

It about sums this up


However efforts to build on this initial oil discovery have resulted in something of a riddle for the companies as well as top analysts in the Square Mile.

Despite a lengthy exploration programme that has followed only the original Sea Lion well has provided any concrete results. Both Rockhopper and Desire have had a number of complex well results that whilst not abject failures, have certainly disappointed investors.

Most recently the 14/10-3 well, which was drilled to 2,830 metres, 8 kilometres away from the Sea Lion discovery well, hit four separate reservoir sections, oil and gas shows were detected throughout drilling and live oil was recovered to surface. However on further testing three of the four reservoirs were found to have high water saturation (above 90 percent).
Meanwhile in the remaining reservoir Rockhopper has recovered samples via a mini drill stem test (DST) - with 20 percent live oil, which is indicated to be medium gravity. This reservoir, referred to as Sand 3, had 64 percent water saturation.
Although Rockhopper described the results as encouraging they clearly fell short of expectations. As each well comes and goes it seems that Rockhopper and Desire have been finding more questions than answers.

Rockhopper, and its investors, will be hoping that the Sea Lion appraisal results can re-ignite some confidence in this enigmatic oil frontier.

so much for pro's 20/share...........will be lucky if we get back to 5.....imo