April 21st, 2014
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Again renewed the conflict in Argentina with England, all in the interest of petroleum, which requires the UK Government to the reality of the energy crisis and what it represents have a tan quoted product such as oil, most before the evidence of the results of a geological study commissioned from a team headed by Donald Griffiths, of the University of Birmingham., of the possibility of having the islands oil. Be considered as stated in Wikipedia, exploration in the Falkland Islands began towards the end of the 1970s with the acquisition of a set of regional seismic data by two oil services companies. Then the data available did not allow the beginning of exploration since the Falkland Islands Government was not prepared to offer licenses of excavation, on the other hand, the start of the war in the Islands from Argentina in 1982 postponed all exploration. In 1992 the Island Government hired the British Geological Survey to which start the scanning process. After an initial investigation revealed the existence of several Mesozoic basins continued to seismic research.
The main interest of exploration after the first round of licensing was located in the area of the North Falkland basin, a basin fractured form elongated in relatively shallow water. Basins located south and East of the Islands present a major technological challenge since they are at one greater depth. During the supply of licenses in 1996 seven companies agreed to a campaign of excavation. There were 6 wells which were planned for the first five years of the new licenses. Environmental data were collected along with geological and geophysical data extracted during the exploration campaign also. On the other hand, new investigations in this area were carried out during the campaign and it was the subject of study for the past years. The exploration of the Falkland Islands area is It is located in the Sea North of them and covers an area of 400,000 km which contains several sedimentary basins of the Mesozoic.
