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.

In domestic corporate news, Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF SA said the Argentinian government has initiated a process of parliamentary approval of a law for a change in control in YPF. With this, 51 percent of YPF's Class D shares owned by Repsol will be declared of public interest and subject to expropriation.

Christ !....it's Arnie at the checkin' on mars !....

I like all on here can only guess what is holding things up, but what I am almost 100% sure of is this.
If anything had gone wrong, IE either negotiations had stalled, or the CPR was delayed through lack of info, or the implied figures of oil found have been reduced/not increased, which would all have an effect if released on the sp, would all warrant a RNS.
Therefor as this would have serious repercussions on RKH via the FSA and the LSE, I view the lack of such RNS's a sign that things are progressing as we hope.
I know companies, especially those in the AIM can and often do, sail close to the wind as regards rules, I doubt RKH would do so.
The main reasons being that of all the companies quoted on AIM, Rockhopper must in the public, as well as the political eye, far more than most.
With the world watching (not an overstatement in my view) the Rockhopper team will be making double sure that all I's are dotted and T's are crossed.
Up to now, there have been no releases that we could call misleading (not like some FI explorers), so its down to trust, and that is from someone who has a reputation among his friends, as a very cynical person when it comes to trusting others.
I just hope I don't regret those views/beliefs.

Regards Greek.

Argentine move to seize YPF scuppers Sinopec deal


By Charlie Zhu and Jim Bai

HONG KONG/BEIJING | Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:56am EDT

HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Argentina's move to nationalize local oil company YPF, controlled by Spain's Repsol, has scuppered years of planning by China's Sinopec Group to buy the South American company, sources said.

Bankers said China's second-largest oil company had held talks with Repsol to buy its controlling 57-percent stake in YPF. Chinese website Caixin.com cited a source as saying Sinopec had reached a non-binding agreement to take over YPF for more than $15 billion.

But plans by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez to seize control of YPF, which have incensed Spain and sparked international criticism, have killed any hopes that state-owned China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec) could seal a deal, they said.

"It's too hairy for any Chinese major to put in that much money, unless there is a special relationship with the Argentinian government, which I doubt," said a mergers and acquisitions banker, who has advised Chinese state-run oil companies on overseas acquisitions.

"This is a challenging situation for anybody given the government action. To me it looks like political suicide to now allow a Chinese company to own YPF soon after announcing the nationalization. I don't they can go flipflop like that."

Bankers said Sinopec's interest in YPF went back at least five years.

The Caixin.com report said Sinopec was in talks with Repsol to buy YPF despite the nationalization threat and the Financial Times said Repsol had not informed Argentina of the discussions with the Chinese oil firm.

Sinopec declined to comment. "We don't comment on market rumors," Sinopec Group spokesman Huang Wensheng said late on Tuesday.

YPF has been under intense pressure from Fernandez's center-left government to boost production and its share price has plunged due to months of speculation about a state takeover.

Caixin.com's report said Sinopec believed YPF's oil blocks in Argentina hold large development potential and it was confident it could meet the Argentine government's requirements to accelerate development and production.

Repsol Chairman Antonio Brufau declined to comment on the Sinopec interest in YPF but at a news conference on Tuesday said the company had received lots of international interest in YPF.[ID:nE8E8CP03D]

ARGENTINE RISKS

Banking sources said even if Repsol reached an agreement with a foreign company like Sinopec, the deal would not materialize because the Argentine government would block the transaction.

"Maybe it is an opportunity but it is a political minefield," a banking source familiar with Chinese oil companies' overseas strategy said.

Some Spanish media reports this week that CNOOC Ltd, China's largest offshore producer, was looking at buying YPF were dismissed because the company had struggled to expand in the country.

Sources familiar with CNOOC's acquisition strategy cited a decision in November by the firm's Bridas Energy Holdings unit to terminate a $7 billion deal to buy BP Plc's 60 percent stake in Argentina-based oil-and-gas group Pan American Energy LLC (PAE). Insiders said the deal collapsed because BP and CNOOC could not win Argentine regulatory approval.

hmmmmmmmmmm

So what news is driving this up?
Haven't seen anything but up she goes. pity I didn't buy more last week.
TT

Something surely must have leaked out re BOR, and I don' mean oil.

Have you been in hibernation TT ?....check out southern falkland sp's....

RF, been invested in rkh and des for a long time now.
There is no announcement etc and the markets are poor yet rkh rises.
Do you have any explanation for the rise over the last few days?

Go for it rf! But be polite! ;o)

Just a minute whilst...I stop laughing...having a job to type....be with you shortly...

Right...now...where were we....it's to do with BOR this morning and a possible farmin with a major oil company BG. or BP. or Cairn.....etc...

Thanks. Been on holiday away from the markets and not followed bor.

Time Traveller,

You should know by now that there are no excuses allowed on these threads for not keeping up, be it holidays, illness or death.

Regards Greek.

Blimey.....take the internet with you somehow......

Now, now RF.

Some of us like to go on hols and chill out.
I was in Cap Verdi when RKH hit Sealion and can remember coming back having missed the massive sell off on the rumor pre hit of a dry well.
I posted on return, that I hoped that I would not have sold, but I will never know for sure.

If you keep having a dig at TT he won't bring you any 'rock' back next time.

Anyway, things are looking like there can't be long to wait to find out just how good out investment in Rockhopper is doing.
Then we can all go on hols.

Lot's of sell's now , short's selling or money going into BOR , or both ?

Hi Aldwickk,

Although I have not been following the trades on RKH all day, I have noticed that following most sp rising, sp falls quickly follow after being triggered by AT trades.
I doubt that its shorts selling, but could of course be wrong.
I think its just everyone feeling that there can't be many more days/hours without some sort of news.
I am also sure that if there is a tie-up RHK and Anadarko any release will be between
1330 and 1830 hrs BST, so it may still happen today.

http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/market_reports/41730/company-snapshot-rockhopper-exploration-supergroup-urals-energy-hambledon-mining-beowulf-rurelec-0000.html

Meanwhile, Rockhopper reported that the new CPR estimates the contingent resources to its Sea Lion and adjacent discoveries at 355.6 million barrels in the 2C category. The assets have a net present value (NPV) of US$4.1 billion net to Rockhopper.

Additionally, the new CPR assigns a 90 percent chance of the Sea Lion field being progressed to successful development with the discoveries adjacent to Sea Lion assigned a 75 percent chance of development.

At last nights close the MKT Cap was £1,073.08.
The CPR puts Nav value mid estimate at £2,489,604,017.48 9 (estimate converted).
So common sense put the true value of Rockhopper at £2,400,000 (estimate), and that is without further discovery post possible valuations.
So a sensible sp should be around 650p to 700p, which is where several analyst were putting the valuation at pre CPR, but based roughly on similar projected figures.

Not an oily, so awaiting for those far more knowledgeable that I, to post.
But the drop does make sense, 'purely' in the fact that punters always expect better that probable/reasonable figures (I know I did).
I have not increased my holdings today, for one simple reason..........No spare cash!