Leiv Eriksson exploration rig to spud first well in Falklands tomorrow
“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.
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.
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.
Falklands confirms second oil rig has reached the Islands; spudding planned for Monday
The deep water exploration oil rig Leiv Eriksson sailed into Falkland waters last week to drill for undersea energy reserves.
The discovery of economically viable offshore oil and gas off the islands is fuelling the frenzy over the islands in Argentina.
Leiv Ericksson exploration rig has now arrived in Falklands waters
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