{"id":3663,"date":"2010-05-06T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2010-05-06T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T14:58:19","slug":"possible-oil-discovery-in-the-falkland-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/possible-oil-discovery-in-the-falkland-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible oil discovery in the Falkland Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expect an increase in sabre-rattling from Argentina, now that one of the exploration companies drilling in the North Falkland Basin claims to have <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/10100769.stm\" target=\"_blank\">struck oil<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Rockhopper Exploration said that initial data collected from one well &#8220;indicated an oil discovery&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The find would be the first in North Falkland Basin, the area north of the islands currently being explored.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, another exploration company, Desire Petroleum, said its drilling programme had disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently drilling further wells after it decided to abandon its first oil well.<\/p>\n<p>UK-based Rockhopper said further tests now needed to be carried out on the well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are extremely excited by the results of this well,&#8221; said Samuel Moody, managing director of Rockhopper. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Argentina disputes ownership of the islands with the British government, although not many seriously fear a second <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Falklands_War\" target=\"_blank\">Falklands War<\/a> (but not many expected the <em>first one<\/em> either).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Falklands_2010.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Falklands_2010\" width=\"466\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Falklands_2010.gif 466w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Falklands_2010-150x120.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expect an increase in sabre-rattling from Argentina, now that one of the exploration companies drilling in the North Falkland Basin claims to have struck oil: Rockhopper Exploration said that initial data collected from one well &#8220;indicated an oil discovery&#8221;. The find would be the first in North Falkland Basin, the area north of the islands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,4],"tags":[492,493],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-britain","tag-argentina","tag-falklandislands"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-X5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}