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(Adds quotes from British foreign office minister) By Andrew Osborn and William James LONDON, June 29 (Reuters) - Britain on Monday accused Argentina of a politically motivated and illegal attack on the nascent oil industry around the disputed Falkland Islands, after Buenos Aires said
Read moreBUENOS AIRES, June 28 (Reuters) - Argentina will pursue in Britain and the United States a local judge's order to seize assets of oil drillers operating in the disputed Falklands Islands, the foreign minister said in an interview published in local media on Sunday. On Saturday, a federal ju
Read moreA judge in Argentina has ordered the seizure of the assets of five oil companies operating in the Falklands Islands, including those owned by Premier Oil, Falkland Oil and Gas and Rockhopper Exploration. The order, which was made by Tierra del Fuego judge Lilian Herraez, also named Noble Energy and
Read more(Adds reaction comment) BUENOS AIRES, June 27 (Reuters) - An Argentine judge ordered the seizure of assets of oil drilling companies operating in the disputed Falklands Islands on Saturday, as rhetoric heats up before October elections. Lilian Herraez, a federal judge in Tierra del Fu
Read moreBUENOS AIRES, June 27 (Reuters) - An Argentine judge ordered the seizure of assets of oil drilling companies operating in the disputed Falklands Islands on Saturday, as rhetoric heats up before October elections. Lilian Herraez, a federal judge in Tierra del Fuego, ordered the seizure of $1
Read moreFalkland Oil and Gas has begun drilling on the Humpback exploration well located on licence PL012, in which the firm has a 52.5% working interest. Humpback is located within a cluster of similar prospects, which have a total combined prospective resource of more than 1bn barrels of oil. The well is
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