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A biggie getting involved would boost all Falklands companies :)

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/money/4073194/Warren-Buffett-tucks-in-with-520m-of-Tescos-shares.html

ONE of the biggest oil companies in the world is eyeing the Falklands.

Officials from American giant ANADARKO flew to Port Stanley for talks with ROCKHOPPER, the UK company sitting on an estimated 500million barrels of oil in the South Atlantic.

They met Rockhopper exploration chief Dave Bodecott yesterday.

A source said: "The Anadarko private jet flew in on Wednesday night."

Rockhopper hopes to team up with a big gun to develop its Sea Lion oil field.

Nice rise. Should be seeing spikes up now and then the retraces being purchased as stock moves from small holders and short term holders into long term hands.

Blackrock have purchased over 5% as per holdings RNS today.

Wonder if.............

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-2088284/Tullow-teams-Shell-seek-oil-Atlantic-shares-pushed-lower-update.html


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Falklands Oil is getting its airtime now...... all helps.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/84587166/

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At least its confirmed Credit Suisse are the ones keeping a lid on the share price, they are now down to below 6% with the late holdings RNS.

which of course implies that they feel overexposed and/or that the stock is too high a risk

And the reason Blackrock have gone over 5%?

I have bought in since the placing.

cynic is just being well, a cynic.

Blackrock purchased because they see great potential.

People buy and sell stocks all the time, as the RNS history of many stocks shows big funds selling just before massive rises........the simple fact is fund managers are no different to anyone else - they have no inside news and they sell if people want to withdraw money from the fund and if they have excess cash they buy.

What is says is some people want their money out of Credit Suisse and are forcing them to reduce holdings, to meet redemptions perhaps.

not at all; just stating the obvious ..... clearly b'rock have a different view for whatever reason

It's going to get interesting here...that's for sure and I'm getting my plan ready for playing these fabulous falkland wildcats !.....

FOGL has more cash than BOR.

FOGL is drilling 2 bigger prospects than BOR.

FOGL has more prospective resources than BOR.

And yet FOGL is half the market cap of BOR - which kind of suggests FOGL is grossly undervalued - but you get this condition when someone is selling. The overhang will clear soon and then the price will zoom.

Rig has arrived safely and is now east of the Falklands Islands in Falklands waters, in the Berkeley Sound.

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?mmsi=308243000&centerx=-57.76173&centery=-51.57527&zoom=10&type_color=9


So spudding of BOR's first well is now due very soon. Should BOR strike the impact on both BOR and FOGL will be immense (more so to BOR but in no small way to FOGL as well at this stage given their market cap is half of BOR at the moment).

The more big names getting involved the better for all Falklands companies. My guess is they are looking into the situation ahead of the southern drills, using RKH's show as an excuse to take a look at the whole set up there, for the southern drills are big enough to warrant a big name getting involved, if the SFB drills by BOR and FOGL strike oil.


www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/business/Industry/article860553.ece

Texans fly into Falklands for Rockhopper talks
Ben Marlow and Danny Fortson

The Sunday Times Published: 22 January 2012

The American oil giant that partnered BP on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon oil platform is considering a move on Rockhopper, the Falklands explorer. It is understood that a team of executives from Anadarko Petroleum, the $40 billion oil group, flew to the Falklands last week to meet.....................................

http://en.mercopress.com/2012/01/22/falklands-confirms-second-oil-rig-has-reached-the-islands-spudding-planned-for-monday

Sunday, January 22nd 2012 - 05:44 UTC

Falklands confirms second oil rig has reached the Islands; spudding planned for Monday

Falklands oil industry sources confirmed that the semi-submersible Leiv Eiriksson oil exploration rig has reached Falklands’ waters and should be spudding its first well next Monday.


“Yes, she’s here and getting ready for Monday. She’s a real nice state of the art baby” said the Falklands sources.

Early in the day the Buenos Aires press quoting sources at Argentina’s Defence and Foreign Affairs ministries said that the oil rig flagged in Bahamas and contracted by Borders & Southern Plc and Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd (FOGL) had been detected approaching Malvinas waters.

The rig is expected to begin drilling next week two wells to the south and southeast of the Malvinas Islands.

According to the Buenos Aires media the rig was spotted by a maritime routine flight from an Orion P3-B belonging to the Argentina Air Naval service which took pictures of the vessel while sailing 547 miles east of Comodoro Rivadavia.

Apparently these maritime air patrols are routine as part of Argentina, together with South Africa, international responsibility to safeguard human lives and shipping in the vast South Atlantic.

The Buenos Aires press reported that the two exploratory wells to be drilled for Borders & Southern Plc are “very close to the Argentine 200 miles continental platform outer limit”.

Since the announcement November 2010 of the contracting of the Leif Eiriksson, “several Argentine offices among them the Malvinas and South Atlantic Desk at the Foreign Affairs ministry (Ambassador Sebastian Brugo Marcó) and the Office of Strategic Intelligence from the Ministry of Defence (Lourdes Puente de Lopez Llovet)”, began tracking the course of the rig from Greenland to the Falklands, with the help of shipping webs in the internet that show maritime traffic worldwide.

So far two other oil companies have been involved in the current round of exploratory drilling in Falklands’ waters which started in 2010: Desire Petroleum and Rockhopper Exploration Plc. Between them they have drilled over twenty wells with the ‘Ocean Guardian’ exploratory rig which left for Scotland in mid January.

Both companies found traces of oil and gas in several wells, but the real promising commercial discovery was done at the Sea Lion prospect where Rockhopper estimates there are 500 million barrels of good light crude.

However to undertake such a task, estimated in over two billion dollars, Rockhopper contracted Bank of America-Merrill Lynch to help find an investor that is interested in sharing such a promising potential.

All this with the background of the escalating conflict between London and Buenos Aires, which according to Argentine sources makes the whole operation even more risky since there is “an ongoing unsolved sovereignty dispute, with ample support for Argentina from neighbouring countries”.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9030392/Offshore-oil-drilling-in-South-Atlantic-could-lead-to-North-Sea-style-boom.html

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Love that map in the article - shows the men from the boys.......... :)

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Nice strong day.

BOR market cap 320 million.

FOG market cap 195 million.

FOGL has more cash, more prospective resources, more licenses and drilling 2 wells same as BOR. But of course, number 1 well for FOGL is twice as big as the two wells of BOR combined.

Says FOGL is greatly undervalued still.