How do you service a Rig?
For Metman/ORAC. The Opening Session of the Special Committee on Decolonization in New York last week, has the UN list comprising Gibraltar, New Caledonia, Western Sahara, American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, British and US Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tokelau and the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).
This motley crew, known as the Committee of 24, has 28 members: Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Chile, China, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Dominica,
Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Grenada, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Mali, Papua New Guinea, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sierra Leone, Syria, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, United Republic of Tanzania and Venezuela.
If you deconstruct the word 'Decolonization', ization is the act, process, or result of making or doing, as applied to the colon. Without upsetting the Mods, I am told the benefits of colonic irrigation can be seen as improved bowel function together with clearer skin, more mental clarity and fewer headaches. Indeed, Cristina F' has got U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to pop into BA sometime this week, perhaps to recommend the process.
Meanwhile, a liquid discussion with ancient aviators out of the North Sea raised one sensible question: how do the Oil conglomerates propose to service these oil rigs? It is not just Desire Oil. Petrobras Energia SA (Brazil), Repsol-YPF (Spain) and Pan American Energy (BP Control) agreed in late 2008 to explore for and possibly produce oil in blocks in the Cuenca Malvinas. This area is located in deep water 200 kilometers from Tierra del Fuego and south west of the current drilling in the North Falkland Basin.
Falkland Oil and Gas Limited (FOGL) has FIG licences in a new, untested basin covering 33,700 sq kms south and east of the Falkland Islands.
Melbourne mining group BHP Billiton is scheduled to start exploiting its licence to explore off the Falkland Islands in the next four months and has been warned by Argentina's ambassador to Australia that it faces business sanctions if it pushes ahead with oil exploration.
As Google Earth puts the well Liz 14/19-A at about 140 miles from Stanley Airfield and around 270 miles to the nearest point of South America, what commercial helicopter can the Oilers use? Chile does not appear to have a commercial medium helo option, unless the US relent and let the military have 5 Russian M17s.