STRATEGY

•FOGL seeks to add shareholder value by pursuing an aggressive exploration programme in its licences to the south and east of the Falkland Islands. Exploration drilling will continue in the deep water areas of FOGL’s licences in the first half of 2012. If successful, this drilling could lead to the development of a new hydrocarbon province in the South Atlantic.

Next Phase of drilling

In the first half of 2012 FOGL is planning to drill two wells in the deep water area of its licences.
FOGL has contracted the Leiv Eiriksson rig to undertake this drilling programme. The rig is due to arrive in the Falklands in early 2012 when it will initially drill two wells for Borders and Southern Plc (B&S), before commencing the FOGL drilling programme. The B&S wells are to be drilled on the Darwin and Stebbing prospects. The results of these wells will be of interest to FOGL, because we have similar plays and prospects within the southern part of our licence area.

The first well to be drilled in the FOGL programme will be on the Loligo prospect. A number of options exist for the second well, including potentially a well on Scotia, a prospect within the Mid Cretaceous Fan Play. The final decision on which prospect will be targeted by the second well will be guided by the results from Loligo.

Funding

As at 7 September 2011 FOGL's available funds, including the BHP Billiton settlement, were $150.8 million. The Company is debt free.


2012 Drilling Programme

The Leiv Eiriksson a harsh environment rig has been drilling wells offshore Greenland for Cairn Energy. That campaign is expected to finish by the end of November 2011 after which the rig will head south to the Falkland Islands. The rig will first drill two wells (about 90 days drilling) for Borders and Southern Plc (B&S) before moving on to the FOGL programme. The transit time from Greenland is expected to be approximately 60 days.

A great deal of work has gone into the planning of the FOGL drilling campaign and over the preceding years a large amount of data has had to be collected to so that the drilling can take place.

Seismic data was acquired from 2004 to 2007 and again in 2011, CSEM in 2007, site surveys in 2009 and 2011 and metocean data, from permanent current meters, in 2009/10. Well planning essentially started in 2009 with the drilling of three, 200m deep, geotechnical boreholes. This data helped with the planning of the shallow section of the Toroa well (FI 61/05-1) and has been extensively used in the planning of the deep water programme.

The first well in the FOGL programme will be on the giant Loligo prospect. A second well will also be drilled by FOGL using the Leiv Eiriksson and site surveys have been acquired over the following prospects: The Nimrod Complex and the Vinson prospect in the Tertiary Channel Play, the Scotia or Hero prospects in the Mid Cretaceous Fan Play and the Inflexible or Endeavour prospect in the Springhill Sandstone Play. Options that are currently being considered depend upon the results of the first well on Loligo. The final play in the FOGL acreage is in the Fold Belt in the south west of the FOGL acreage. This play is being tested by B&S at their Stebbing prospect. Similar features exist within the FOGL acreage and the results of the well will be closely monitored. In addition the B&S, Darwin well is targeting a tilted fault block which again shows great similarities with several prospects in the FOGL portfolio (Inflexible, Thulla etc.). Depending on the results of Darwin FOGL may consider a well on Inflexible as the second well in the programme.

FOGL’s main focus is on the two younger plays, the Tertiary Channel and the Mid Cretaceous Fan play. FOGL has been working on the Mid Cretaceous play for some time but it was only in late 2009, when the seismic data had been fully reprocessed, that it became clear that this major new play was viable. The play is analogous to the ones being successfully targeted in West Africa (the Tullow Jubilee field in Ghana and other discoveries along that margin) and the general geology, depositional setting and even the AVO response (Class II response over Scotia and Hero) are remarkably similar. The two main prospects, Scotia and Hero, both contain prospective resources in excess of 1 billion bbls. One of the key features that makes this play so attractive is that the reservoir sands sit directly above the mature Aptian oil source rocks which were sampled in the DSDP wells to the East of the FOGL acreage.

2012 DRLLING TARGET LOLIGO

The shallowest target alone covers an area of over 600sqkm. The Loligo prospect was first mapped in 2006 and has been re-mapped and re analysed several times since then. It is a large stratigraphic trap which is supported by a very consistent Class III AVO response on the seismic data. It is an ‘easy to map’ anomaly which stands out clearly above the background seismic responses when compared to the entire basin. In addition, it sits directly above an old high which used to separate the Southern basin (Fitzroy sub-basin) from the Northern basin (Volunteer sub-basin). This old high seems to be acting as a focus for hydrocarbon migration from deeply buried source rocks in each of the sub basins.

Beneath the southern part of Loligo several other prospects within the Tertiary Channel play, overlap and may be penetrated by one carefully located well. The deeper prospects (each covering an area similar to Loligo) have been called Trigg and the Three Bears. Together these prospects are called the Loligo Complex. The prospective resources (recoverable oil) associated with the Loligo complex, are in excess of 4 billion bbls of oil or over 25tcf of gas.




FOGL is focused exclusively on offshore oil and gas exploration in the Falkland Islands.

We are pursuing an aggressive exploration programme that could lead to the development of a new petroleum province in the South Atlantic. The joint venture operations have now moved into the drilling phase.
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Most prospects in 2,000 – 4,500 feet water depth (610 – 1372m)

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Target horizons: 6,000 – 13,000 feet below sea bed lever (1829 – 3962m)

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Falklands weather is similar to West of Shetland

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Remote location but there were no major issues during 1998 drilling campaign

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Anchored semi-submersible or drillship for exploration drilling

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Tried and tested technology for developments



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Gordon's Armada in peril.

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/letters/Gordons-Armada-in-peril.6134291.jp

Although the article has serious implications, I thought the tone might lighten the mood a bit.

Rather static these days - probably awaiting the outcome of the DES / RKH exploration.

Well someone is still confident.

Investec Asset Management Ltd increase holding from 7,242,666 to 7,666,666.

OK not a huge increase by any means but still an increase.

Still going well from 120 to 152 (17%) in just over two weeks whilst DES and stick around 50.

FOGL seems to have woken up today..........

Bit of a lagger....... but waking up anyway.

Action will switch to here...soon...

More the tortoise than the hare but I'm sure it will continue to rise as the drilling approaches

Slowly creeping up in anticipation. I suppose the 183p price tag looks expensive compared to DES & RKH which possibly deters the usual herd.

surely all their licences are in southern basin which is largely unknown territory?

Yes, but that probably won't deter the speculators/day traders/opportunists.
The FOGL chart has still reacted to the DES & RKH results.

Harry according to some this is worth 120 a share in 2 years.

but i take it that you don't subscribe to that mitzy, as you are a realist :-))

I settle for 119.50p....

Mitzy's more likely to be a surrealist !....

Don't let those nasty bullies get to you mitzy! 120 is good (did you mean to include a decimal point anywhere???)

Winning a one-legged @rse kicking contest today having sold some last Friday on a 'free' deal...now paying the price a bit to get back in

Write this one down Harry it could be BIG.

http://www.offshore247.com/news/art.aspx?Id=16761


"South Atlantic driller Ocean Guardian is now mobilisingg to drill its third well off the Falkland islands for Falklands Oil and Gas and partner BHP Petroleum on the Toroa prospect after it just completed the Rockhopper Exploration's Sea Lion well.

Offshore247.com has learned that the rig was taken on contract by FOGL late Tuesday night, a well placed industry source said, and the rig is now mobilising to the East Falklands to drill Toroa.

The rig is expected to reach its next well location within five or six days and therefore could kick off the FOGL well some time over the weekend.

Back in February FOGL signalled that it had reached an agreement with Desire Petroleum to sub-let the Ocean Guardian for its Toroa well, which will be the first in the East Falklands Basin.

Toroa is one of the prospects identified within the Springhill play type one of three play types in the Falklands - which has been found in the Magallanese basin and which is responsible for 95% of the oil and gas produced offshore from Argentina.

The oil or gas is trapped in sands which were deposited near an ancient shoreline. Many of the fields in Argentina are formed by a combination of structural and stratigraphic trapping mechanisms, FOGL says, in an explanation of the geology of the Falkland Islands."

This is a gamble.....like the others.....until they get a proper rig....If it comes up dry....would then have to wait until new rig is sent to south atlantic.....probably not until 2011 at the very earliest.

assuredly do not put your shirt on this one, but IF sealion report comes up positive, then it is reasonable to expect the hype to spill over into FOGL ..... therefore perhaps one to trade on that premise