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Fossil fuels are providing 4x as much energy as the unreliables at the moment .... I dread to think what is going to happen after Ed MiniBrain has shut down Oil and Gas in the North Sea.

https://grid.iamkate.com/

Falklanders are a bit worried about Argentina getting F-16s

They will be keen to get Sea Lion up and going so as to help pay for continued British military presence on the Island.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1970889/falkland-islands-argentina-invasion-uk-troops

This is also interesting ... especially re. fertilizer manufacture.

https://news.sky.com/story/lego-fossil-fuels-and-the-cop28-climate-deal-what-toy-bricks-tell-us-about-the-immense-difficulties-of-going-green-13029499

Hi Alma

You were right about the RNS coming before Oct 31 ... you can put your bra back on now !.

Reeves is thinking about setting £500,000 ISA limit ... won't affect me but those with their 1.000.000 shares should be worried when RKH hits 50p.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/revealed-rachel-reevess-ambition-slash-isa-allowances/?WT.mc_id=e_DM434137&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Edi_New_Sub&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_Edi_New_Sub20241017&utm_campaign=DM434137

At 1:30 p.m. Gas was producing more than 5 x Wind and 5 x Solar.

https://grid.iamkate.com/

But Ed Minibrain thinks we should stop using gas completely.

Without gas, at this very moment, food in our freezers would be thawing and factories would be closing down.

Having had their hopes built up firstly by Rockhopper then Premier then Harbour and now Navitas, you can understand why, to some Falkland Islanders, "Whether or not" seams appropriate.

P.S.

The comment about North Sea was mine .... NOT the DT

As reported in Daily Telegraph this afternoon ,,, we should have done the same in North Sea instead of closing it down.

India races to exploit oilfields before world turns green

India is to ramp up the exploitation of its oil reserves before the switch to green energy curbs the market for fossil fuels, the country’s minister for petroleum and natural gas has said.

Hardeep Singh Puri told the Financial Times’ Energy Transition Summit India:

I was with Exxon yesterday. I was with BP a few days earlier. I have had meetings with Chevron ... I went to Brazil and had a discussion with Petrobras.

I said you come, join Oil India prospecting off the Andaman waters. Don’t make any investment, just come in. We will incentivise them. And if you strike oil and you are a partner, you will have first right of refusal...

At the end of the day it’s a race. If it remains there unexploited, when the [energy] transition becomes total, there is a philosophical debate on that.

Re-assuring to see that the 4 Typhoon Jet Fighters will be staying to protect the Falklands.

https://en.mercopress.com/2024/10/07/falklands-mpa-toured-by-mod-director-of-overseas-bases

Https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1957833/Argentina-Falklands-threats-UK-red-alert

In Telegraph today.

The Falklands are safe in British hands, the governor of the islands has insisted amid a row over the Chagos Islands.

It was announced on Thursday morning that Sir Keir Starmer had given up Chagos Islands, handing the Indian Ocean territory to Mauritius.

The islands were British-owned from 1814 but have now been signed away by the Government in a deal that it claimed would safeguard global security by ending a long-running dispute.

Alison Blake, the Governor of the Falklands Islands, said in a statement: “I am aware that there may be concerns, either amongst the Falkland Islands community or others, of potential read across to the Falkland Islands.

“I would like to reassure you that the legal and historical contexts of the Chagos Archipelago and the Falkland Islands are very different. UK ministers have been very clear throughout the process that the UK will not agree to anything that runs the risk of jeopardising sovereignty in other Overseas Territories.

“The UK Government remains committed to defending the Falkland Islanders’ right of self-determination, and the UK’s unwavering commitment to defend UK sovereignty remains undiminished.”

I think that it's the EU trying to interfere.

Longtermthinker

I'm pretty sure that they will not to be able to swap the turret buoy in the Aoko Mizu with a bigger FPSO. The turret was installed for Hurricane by an outfit in Dubai and they then manufactured the buoy to fit precisely into the turret. The bearings, that the turret swivels on, are very complicated and expensive.

Sorry, mixed up £s with $s ... but still a lot of money for an FPSO.

From the link that Mogger gave,

"Also during Q3 2024, TotalEnergies inked a US$3.7Bn order with Saipem to provide and operate an FPSO for its Kaminho project in Angola"

Wow !! Each of our Aircraft Carriers only cost that much.

If I had to guess, I would think that an IPA is an assurance that they won't change their mind once investments have been made ... unlike what the Italians did to us.

Offshore Canada Yet to Become New Drilling Frontier. Despite hopes that the high-impact Persephone well could hold as much as 1 billion barrels of oil in Canada’s offshore, the Exxon-spudded wildcat turned out to be dry, just as Equinor’s Sitka prospect yielded no commercial reserves.

Quite a few MPs visited their stand but I note that there was no visit from Ed Minibrain the Minister for Lack Of Energy.

The problem is that the non-Greenies have to win every one of these frustrating cases whereas the Greenies only need to win one and we're screwed.