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[Wildschwein]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 27.974.280 von Wildschwein am 26.02.07 10:28:14

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Press Release

Rockhopper Exploration Provides Falkland Islands Exploration Update
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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Rockhopper Exploration plc, the North Falkland Islands explorer, announces that volumetric work has been completed on the Company’s leads and prospects in licences PL023 and PL024. The work suggests unrisked P50 recoverable reserves of in aggregate 2.5 billion barrels providing encouragement against the backdrop of an easing rig market.

Rockhopper is also pleased to report that it is further encouraged following an initial review of 3D seismic data covering licences PL032 and PL033, from where oil was recovered in 1998. The survey is the most modern 3D project undertaken in the Falkland Islands to date. Significantly, both structural closures and fan type bodies can already be seen.

2D data – PL023 & PL024 – target sizes

Rockhopper has now completed volumetric work using the 2D seismic data collected in 2006 on a number of targets in licences PL023 and PL024 which suggests unrisked P50 recoverable reserves of in aggregate 2.5 billion barrels.

All of these targets are in relatively shallow water depths of less than 200m. The potential range of target sizes is listed below. The minimum economic size is likely to be 35 to 50 million barrels recoverable. The Company believes that the net present value of a single 100 million barrel recoverable oil field would be between US$750 million and US$1 billion.

Recoverable oil - Millions of barrels (unrisked)

Beauchene
P10: 216
P50: 145
P90: 98

Bleaker
P10: 387
P50: 193
P90: 119

Concordia
P10: 60
P50: 44
P90: 20

Dolphin
P10: 543
P50: 287
P90: 49

Ernest
P10: 300
P50: 130
P90: 50

Golding
P10: 125
P50: 49
P90: 4

Keppel
P10: 812
P50: 580
P90: 365

Pebble
P10: 298
P50: 186
P90: 97

Saunders
P10: 679
P50: 434
P90: 171

Usborne
P10: 290
P50: 220
P90: 150

Weddell
P10: 394
P50: 254
P90: 108

These represent the best 11 structural targets in the opinion of the Directors. There are a number of smaller additional leads which have not been listed. The names are taken from Falkland place names. No reserves have been attributed to any stratigraphic leads which are likely to mature with further data acquisition.

Ernest, which is a 4 way closure with a positive CSEM anomaly, located in the North of PL024, remains the most attractive prospect.

3D Data – PL032 & PL033

Rockhopper expects to receive the final processed 3D volume at the end of July. This 3D covers an area of over 800 square kilometres and extends along some 30km of the untested eastern basin margin. Data acquisition took place between November 2006 and January 2007 and the survey is the largest of the three 3D surveys carried out in the North Falkland Basin.

The Company has already received the initial Quality Control (“QC”) volume. These data are of high quality and represent the most modern 3D undertaken in the Falkland Islands to date. The QC data volume is the entire data volume, delivered prior to the completion of processing. It allows the Company to make an initial interpretation of the data and also to finalise the processing work required.

The initial interpretation of the QC volume reveals a number of structural closures and two large fan bodies that can clearly be seen even at this early stage.

Once interpretation of the final processed 3D data is completed, prospects will be ranked and drilling locations will be decided.

Pierre Jungels commented:

“The data we have available to us is extremely encouraging and further reduces our exploration risk in the North Falkland basin. The target sizes in licences PL023 and PL024 provide confidence in the potential upside should any discovery be made in the area and with the rig market easing, our work will now focus on selecting the best targets for drilling.

Oil has already been recovered on licences PL032 and PL033 so the fact that we can see structural closures and possible fans on our 3D seismic in this area is highly significant and increases our confidence in the prospectivity of the acreage.

Note

While most of the targets listed above are entirely within Rockhopper acreage, others straddle the boundary between Rockhopper acreage and unlicensed acreage, or acreage licensed to other operators. For example, while approximately 95% of target Ernest (P10) is within Rockhopper acreage, the analysis above relates to 100% of the target.

No risking has been performed in calculating the numbers above. Where targets are basement structures, a 30m net pay has been assumed. Where targets are shallower closures, a net to gross of 0.65 has been applied to the volume. Conservative reservoir parameters have been applied throughout.

[Ramses2I]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 29.173.429 von Wildschwein am 06.05.07 20:36:25

Dann schau einfach mal den Langfristchart von FIH an.
Hier ist eben als wichtigstes genügend Ausdauer notwendig.

Vielleicht klappt es...vielleicht auch nicht.

[Wildschwein]

Der Chart sieht so aus als würden die bald was finden..

[al_sting]

Erst einmal würde es mich freuen, wenn ein Bohrturm den Weg zu den Falklands findet.
Bis jetzt wird da noch nichts gebohrt.

[Wildschwein]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 14.073.281 von SoWhat am 18.08.04 10:22:24

Hat einer NEWS zu den laufenden Bohrprogrammen?

Wie sehen die ersten Ergebnisse aus.
Ich schätze sollten sie positiv seine, dann wird vorab schon was durchsickern, dass den Kurs beeinflusst. (Andersherum natürlich auch).
Wir Ahnungslosen müssen auf die offiziellen Meldungen warten.

[Andrija]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 29.117.207 von Wildschwein am 03.05.07 18:26:07

Die Dividende kommt immer in der ersten Novemberwoche. Letztes Jahr 0,07 GBP.

[Wildschwein]

Wann gibts eigendlich die Dividende und wieviel?
Die soll ja immer sehr zuverlässig fliessen.

[al_sting]

Anlässlich der 25-jährigen Jubiläums des Falklandkrieges dürften sich jetzt die Presseartikel häufen.
Hier einer des Handelsblattes, der die Veränderungen der letzten 25 Jahre ganz gut zeigt.
FIH kommt auch vor - als Beispiel eines ehemaligen Monopolbetriebes, dem einige Krallen gestutzt werden mussten.

http://www.handelsblatt.com/news/Politik/International/_pv/_…

[Wildschwein]

Associated companies
FOGL

Falkland Oil and Gas Limited
16.3% shareholding; 15 million shares

www.fogl.com

A year ago, FIC had a 20% interest in the Falkland Hydrocarbon Consortium. In the last twelve months the consortium has been transformed into Falkland Oil and Gas Limited (FOGL) and tremendous progress has been made. FIC's parent company Falkand Islands Holdings (FIH) still retains an 16.3% interest in FOGL.

FOGL was admitted to AIM in October 2004 at 40p per share, raising £12 million in the process. At that time, it held a 77.5% interest in licences covering 33,700 sq km and the available data enabled eight leads to be investigated. In December 2004, FOGL applied for and was awarded a 100% interest in licences covering an additional 50,000 sq km.

Immediately following the share placing a 9,450 km 2D seismic survey commenced which was completed in May 2005. The seismic work provides a 2 dimensional map of the rock strata under the sea bed and is designed to identify potentially oil bearing formations. The results of the survey were encouraging and revealed leads both in the original licensed area but also in the totally unexplored northern licence area. To date some 130 leads have been identified compared with just eight at the time of the share placing.

Initial interpretation of the new data gives considerable cause for optimism. The preliminary results of the survey identify numerous Direct Hydrocarbon Indicators (DHI's) pointing to the presence of working petroleum systems. The leads are large and diverse, with some leads possibly covering areas of 300 to 500 sq km, sufficient to hold large reserves of oil or gas.

FOGL now represents a much larger project than originally anticipated and as a result the planned scope of the exploration programme has been increased far beyond that envisaged at the time of the share placing. The plan now is to conduct further 2D seismic work and a contract has already been signed to acquire at least a further 8,000 km of 2D. A 3D seismic survey over up to 2,000 sq km is also under consideration. The target is to develop a portfolio of about 20 high quality and technically drillable prospects by the end 2006, with drilling expected to start in 2008.

To fund the expanded programme, FOGL conducted a share placing in May 2005 in which FIH participated acquiring a further 2.3 million shares at 85p which resulted in a slight increase in the shareholding to 18.3%. The placing raised £10 million, which together with FOGL's existing cash resources of £11 million, will enable the Company to fund its planned exploration programme and cover all the Company's overheads through 2006. It is also anticipated that discussions will commence with potential operating partners in the second half of the year.

At 31 March 2005 the Group held 14,450,000 FOGL shares with a market value of £17.1 million. Following the share placing in May 2005 FIH owned 16,803,000 shares with a cost of £2.7 million. On 21 February 2006, FIH sold 1,802,941 shares in FOGL, representing 10.7% of its holding in FOGL and representing 1.96% of the current issued share capital of FOGL. The shares were sold for a net consideration of £2.4 million, generating a profit of £2.1 million for FIH. Following the transaction, FIH retains a shareholding of 15,000,000 shares in FOGL, representing 16.3% of FOGL´s current issued share capital.

Any oil and gas exploration production would be likely to have a dramatic impact both on the Islands' population, currently some 3,000 people and on the economy. FIC would be a major beneficiary of this. Already there is much activity in the region with a number of other companies exploring for oil and gas around the Falkland Islands. They include three other AIM listed companies, Desire Petroleum, Borders and Southern and Rockhopper Exploration.

FOGL shares have performed well since admission to AIM and FIH intends to be a long-term shareholder.

[Wildschwein]

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